Foodborne Illness Library

This is the Resource Library for the Overview Course. When you're ready, take the assessment to see what you've learned. Let us know if any of these are out of date. All links will open in a new window ().

Top Three Resources

One of these might be referenced on the test!

1	This one's short, start here! Preventing Foodborne Disease — What Clinicians Can Do (PDF) This two-page piece from the New England Journal of Medicine highlights the basic types of and issues surrounding foodborne illness. It's targeted to clinicians, but is pretty general. (PDF, 1M).
2	Threat of a biological terrorist attack on the US food supply: the CDC perspective (PDF) This seven page document from the CDC breaks down the various food-related threats in a concise and compelling manner.
3	Risk Assessment for Food Terrorism and Other Food Safety Concerns (PDF) A 13-page introduction to the basic steps of food risk assessment, and possible consequences for food-related terrorism.

Food Safety and Security: Operational Risk Management Systems Approach (PDF) A step by step breakdown of foodborne risk management from a series of federal agencies

Public Health Surveillance Presentation
(PPT) This CDC Presentation walks through the importance of surveillance to Public Health.

Epidemiological Clues to Bioterrorism
(PDF) This hort guide tries to walk readers through signs that an outbreak might be intentional.

BioSecurity on the Farm (PDF) A chart of security steps for farms.

Anatomy of Foodborne Outbreaks
from the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness