Foodborne disease outbreaks [[electronic resource] ] : guidelines for investigation and control / / World Health Organization

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.954
• Soggetto topico: Foodborne diseases - Prevention; Food contamination - Prevention; Epidemics - Prevention; Food poisoning - Prevention; Communicable diseases - Prevention
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-95).
• Nota di contenuto: Foodborne disease outbreaks: Guidelines for investigation an; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Section 1; Practical guide; Section 2; Planning and preparation; Section 3; Surveillance to detect foodborne disease outbreaks; Section 4; Investigation of foodborne disease outbreaks; Section 5; Control measures; Section 6; Features of important foodborne diseases; References; Further reading; Annex 1; Glossary; Annex 2; Outbreak control meeting: draft agenda; Annex 3; Examples of outbreak investigation forms; Annex 4; Questionnaire design; Annex 5; Sample questionnaires; Annex 6 ; Investigation report formsInvestigation of a foodborne outbreak; Annex 7; Statistics; Annex 8; Situations likely to contribute to foodborne disease outbrea; Annex 9; Procedures and equipment for specimen collection; Annex 10; The WHO Five Keys to Safer Food
• Sommario/riassunto: The investigation and control of foodborne disease outbreaks are multi-disciplinary tasks requiring skills in the areas of clinical medicine, epidemiology, laboratory medicine, food microbiology and chemistry, food safety and food control, and risk communication and management. Many outbreaks of foodborne disease are poorly investigated, if at all, because these skills are unavailable or because a field investigator is expected to master them all single-handedly without having been trained.These guidelines have been written for public health practitioners, food and health inspectors, district
• Titolo autorizzato: Foodborne disease outbreaks
• ISBN: 1-282-25004-3; 9786612250040; 92-4-068382-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996320249303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno