Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell Hamline
Health Law Institute
Food Safety Panel
Carrie Rigdon, PhD
MDA Food & Feed Safety Division
Inspect
Investigate
Educate
The Chain of Regulatory Responsibility
Farm
Processor
Distributor
Retail
Restaurant
Retail/Groceries
Meat Processors
Food Manufacturers
Feed Mills & Pet
Food
Dairy Producers &
Processors
Mobile Sales
Anatomy of an Outbreak
Investigation: Integrated Approach
Disease Surveillance
Epidemiological Investigation
Laboratory Analysis
Environmental Investigation
Traceback / Traceforward
Product Investigation
Data and Information
• Epidemiologic info. from ill
person interviews (Health)
• Laboratory (Health & Ag)
• Records (Health & Ag)
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Menus
Process
Shipping/Receiving
Sanitation
• Traceback (Ag)
2015-16 Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to
Commercially Produced, Prepackaged Caramel Apples
(35 illnesses in 12 states)
2016 Multistate Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing
Escherichia coli Infections Linked to Flour
(63 ill in 24 states)