Estimates of the Burden of Foodborne Illness in Canada for 30 Specified Pathogens and Unspecified Agents, Circa 2006

Thomas, M. Kate; Murray, Regan; Flockhart, Logan; Pintar, Katarina; Pollari, Frank; Fazil, Aamir; Nesbitt, Andrea; Marshall, Barbara

doi:10.1089/fpd.2012.1389

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“…The Public Health Agency of Canada reports that over 30 pathogens cause 4 million episodes of foodborne illness annually (Thomas et al, 2013). Microbes responsible for outbreaks are increasing in strength (Nestle, 2003).…”

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Food Safety and Food Security: Mapping Relationships

Martin

Perkin

2016

JAFSCD

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Food safety regulations designed for industrialscale food producers can create insurmountable challenges when applied to small-scale food producers. These challenges can make for a frustrating environment for food consumers, producers, and regulators, at times leading to tensions between food producers and people working in food safety. The objective of this study was to identify ways to reduce these tensions and promote intersectoral collaboration. We used concept mapping, a structured, participatory, mixed-method approach, to solicit ideas and synthesize input from those working in food safety and food security. We sent invitations to 96 individuals working in food safety or food security, and 50 completed the online concept mapping. Twenty-three participated in categorizing and ranking all the resulting statements. The findings were 'mapped' into six clusters: (1) communicating, (2) understanding intent, (3) educating, (4) understanding risk and regulation, (5) recognizing scale, and (6) enhancing partnerships. We further reduced these six clusters into three categories: "relationships," "education," and "context." Although there are no quick or easy ways to ease tensions between those working in food safety and food security, we suggest four practical ways to ease tensions to ensure safe and accessible food: (1) a collaborative group at a high regulatory level that shares authority is needed; (2) building relationships across disciplines should be considered as part of public health work; (3) regulatory documents should be written in plain language; and (4) food safety regulations should account for differences in scale of production with supportive resourcing.

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Section: Food Safetymentioning

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Food Safety and Food Security: Mapping Relationships

Martin

Perkin

2016

JAFSCD

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“…[1][2][3] This burden of disease creates demand on the health care system and increases in out-ofpocket health care costs. 2,3 Estimates from the recent past suggest an incidence of 13 million cases of foodborne illnesses in Canada per year, with a projected cost of approximately $12 billion.…”

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Restaurant inspection frequency: The RestoFreq Study

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Turner

Cushon

et al. 2016

Can J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: Foodborne illness is an important contributor to morbidity and health system costs in Canada. Using number of critical hazards as a proxy for food safety, we sought to better understand how to improve food safety in restaurants. We compared the current standard of annual inspections to twice-yearly inspections among restaurants "at risk" for food safety infractions. These were restaurants that had three or more elevated-risk inspection ratings in the preceding 36 months. METHODS:We conducted a two-arm randomized controlled trial between November 2012 and October 2014. The intervention was twice-yearly routine restaurant inspection compared to standard once-yearly routine inspection. Included were all restaurants within Saskatoon Health Region that were assessed as "at risk", with 73 restaurants in the intervention arm and 78 in the control arm. Independent sample t-tests were conducted between groups to compare: i) average number of critical hazards per inspection; and ii) proportion of inspections resulting in a rating indicating an elevated hazard. RESULTS:Over time we noted statistically significant improvements across both study arms, in number of both critical food safety hazards (decreased by 61%) and elevated-risk inspection ratings (decreased by 45%) (p < 0.0001). We observed no significant differences between the two groups preor post-intervention. CONCLUSION:Results suggest increasing the number of annual routine inspections in high-risk restaurants was not associated with a significant difference in measures of compliance with food safety regulations. Findings of this study do not provide evidence supporting increased frequency of restaurant inspection from annually to twice annually. KEY WORDS: Food safety; restaurants; food inspectionLa traduction du résumé se trouve à la fin de l'article.

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“…In some instances, the policy disconnect was implicit in participants' statements, for example, in how P13 (food security lead) described Canada's Food Guide as the ultimate guideline in the province, while dismissing the risk of E. coli infection (that causes about 33 000 illnesses in Canada each year 23 ) and the food safety regulations designed to minimize such risk:…”

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“Highly processed, highly packaged, very unhealthy. But they are low risk”: exploring intersections between community food security and food safety

Speed

Meyer

Hanning

et al. 2017

Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can

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Introduction: Food insecurity and foodborne disease are important issues in Canada, and the public health actions taken to address them can be conceptualized as factors shaping the food environment. Given emerging evidence that these two areas may interrelate, the objective of this study was to explore ways in which community food security efforts and food safety practices (and the population health issues they aim to address) may intersect in British Columbia, Canada, and interpret what this might mean for conceptualizing and attaining healthier food environments.

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Estimates of the Burden of Foodborne Illness in Canada for 30 Specified Pathogens and Unspecified Agents, Circa 2006

Cited by 372 publications

References 39 publications

Food Safety and Food Security: Mapping Relationships

Food Safety and Food Security: Mapping Relationships

Restaurant inspection frequency: The RestoFreq Study

“Highly processed, highly packaged, very unhealthy. But they are low risk”: exploring intersections between community food security and food safety

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