• Wei Sheng Yan Jiu · May 2010

    [Foodborne disease outbreaks in 2006 report of the National Foodborne Disease Surveillance Network, China].

    • Yan Chen, Yunchang Guo, Zhutian Wang, Xiumei Liu, Hong Liu, Yue Dai, Zhenzhu Tang, and Jian Wen.
    • Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100021, China. yan_chen2000@yahoo.com.cn
    • Wei Sheng Yan Jiu. 2010 May 1;39(3):331-4.

    ObjectiveTo study the epidemiological characteristics of foodborne disease outbreaks in China in 2006.MethodsThe foodborne diseases data collected by the National Foodborne Disease Surveillance Network in 2006 were analyzed.ResultsThere were 594 outbreaks of foodborne disease reported from 18 provinces in 2006, which caused illness in 13849 persons and death in 67. Among outbreaks for which the etiology was determined, microbial pathogens caused the largest percentage of outbreaks (48.3%) and the largest percentage of cases (63.3%), chemical agents, 24.8% of outbreaks and 15.5% of cases, and animal and plant agents, 23.5% of outbreaks and 17.7% of cases.ConclusionAs discovered by the National Foodborne Disease Surveillance Network, microbial foodborne disease remains a major public health problem in China, and the awareness to report foodborne disease incidents need to be intensified in the future.

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