Developing a risk management framework to improve public health outcomes by enumerating Salmonella in ground turkey.

ABSTRACT: Salmonella spp. continue to be a leading cause of foodborne morbidity worldwide. To assess the risk of foodborne disease, current national regulatory schemes focus on prevalence estimates of Salmonella and other pathogens. The role of pathogen quantification as a risk management measure and its impact on public health is not well understood. To address this information gap, a quantitative risk assessment model was developed to evaluate the impact of pathogen enumeration strategies on public health after consumption of contaminated ground turkey in the USA. Public health impact was evaluated by using several dose-response models for high- and low-virulent strains to account for potential under- or overestimation of human health impacts. The model predicted 2705-21 099 illnesses that would r

SUBMITTER: Sampedro F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6518596 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature