date:Jun 26, 2015
porting, also found that there was a wide variation in state reporting of outbreaks.
Of the 51 states, nine reported six or more outbreaks per million population and 19 reported one or fewer outbreaks per million.
The report shows that the federal food-borne disease surveillance programmes do improve the quality of the state outbreak reporting and that the states that took part in the Center for Disease Control and Preventions FoodNet programme were successful in identifying a large number of