Operational Antecedents Associated with Clostridium perfringens Outbreaks in Retail Food Establishments, United States, 2015-2018.

ABSTRACT: Clostridium perfringens is a common foodborne pathogen, frequently associated with improper cooking, and cooling or reheating of animal products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Code outlines proper food preparation practices to prevent foodborne outbreaks; however, retail food establishments continue to have C. perfringens outbreaks. We qualitatively analyzed responses to two open-ended questions from the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) to understand patterns of unique circumstances in the retail food establishment that precede a C. perfringens outbreak. We identified three environmental antecedents, with three subcategories, to create nine operational antecedents to help explain why a C. perfringens outbreak occurred. Thos

SUBMITTER: Wittry BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10025997 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature