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Routine restaurant inspection reports may be a little-used tool for preventing foodborne illness and may be more powerful when combined with disease surveillance data, researchers say. Journal of Food Protection.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Helsinki reviewed published studies that examined how restaurant testing results relate to outbreaks and sporadic foodborne infections. They found that testing data already collected by local and state health departments could help investigators spot transmission patterns earlier and strengthen outbreak response.
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