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safety education and training materials, relevant guidelines, and training materials. Links
success stories and strategies, HACCP training to general and specific information on
materials, and links to related HACCP foodborne diseases and pathogens are also
resources and sites. provided.
FightBAC: Keep food safe from US FDA: Foodborne Illness

bacteria http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/
http://www.fightbac.org/main.cfm foodborn.html
FightBac (figure, this page) is a project of This section of the US Food and Drug
the US non-profit consumer, govern- Administration site gives rapid access
ment, and industry group Partnership for to materials for clinicians and the
Food Safety Education. The site offers food general public on foodborne pathogens
safety campaign and educational materials, and toxins, food protection and safety
including featured “success stories”. programmes, and regulatory information.
National Seafood HACCP Alliance for US FoodSafety.gov

Training and Education http://www.foodsafety.gov
http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/haccp/compendium/ FoodSafety.gov is US government portal site offering food
compend.htm safety alerts, educational materials, information on food
Here is an excellent, regularly updated compendium on safety programmes and campaigns, and links to foodborne
biological hazards and controls related to seafood processing illness fact sheets and resources for clinicians, educators, and
and preparation. the general public.
UK: Health Protection Agency: Enter-Net US NIAID: Foodborne Diseases

http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpa/inter/enter-net_menu.htm http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/foodbornedis.htm
This section of the UK’s Health Protection Agency site This site provides concise fact sheets on botulism,
provides full details on Enter-Net, the international campylobacteriosis, E coli infection, salmonella, shigellosis,
surveillance network for human gastrointestinal infections. and foodborne disease prevention, as well as an overview of
Network participants include the microbiologist in NIAID-funded research in this area.
charge of the national reference laboratory for salmonella
and Escherichia coli infections, and the epidemiologist WHO: Food Safety
responsible for the national surveillance of these diseases in http://www.who.int/foodsafety/en
EU countries and in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, WHO presents a wealth of publications, surveillance
Switzerland, and Norway. reports, and detailed information on microbiological risks
in food, specific foodborne illnesses and pathogens, food
US CDC: Foodborne Illness Outbreak Response production, handling, and processing (as they relate to
and Surveillance food safety), and downloadable (PDF) consumer education
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/outbreak materials.
The US CDC site offers a complete, downloadable
outbreak investigation toolkit, including questionnaires, Marilynn Larkin
guide to confirming diagnosis, specimen collection [email protected]
Errata
Shingadia D, Novelli V. Diagnosis and treatment of Di Giulio DB, Eckburg PB. Human monkeypox: an
tuberculosis in children. Lancet Infect Dis 2003; 3: 624–32. In emerging zoonosis. Lancet Infect Dis 2004; 4: 15–25. In the
table 2 of this review, the ATS-recommended daily dosage of footnote to table 1 of this review, the secondary attack rate
pyrazinamide should be 35 mg/kg, and that of ethambutol should be 3–4%. The last sentence of the first paragraph of
should be 15 mg/kg. the Diagnosis section should read “Samples that potentially
contain monkeypox virus should be . . .”. And the first
sentence of the first paragraph of the Closing remarks
section should begin “As smallpox was eradicated . . .”.
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