Online reports of foodborne illness capture foods implicated in official foodborne outbreak reports

Nsoesie, Elaine O.; Kluberg, Sheryl A.; Brownstein, John S.

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.08.003

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“…It was estimated that 48 million people experience food borne illness in the United States every year 18 . Food borne pathogens are responsible for 325.000…”

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confidence: 99%

Bioactive Compounds of Cold-pressed Thyme (<i>Thymus vulgaris</i>) Oil with Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties

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“…It was estimated that 48 million people experience food borne illness in the United States every year 18 . Food borne pathogens are responsible for 325.000…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioactive Compounds of Cold-pressed Thyme (<i>Thymus vulgaris</i>) Oil with Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties

et al. 2016

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“…Several other possible passive data collection methods have been examined in the literature, including internet death notices as a source of mortality surveillance data (Boak, M'Ikanatha, Day, & Harrison, 2008), forum postings (Kate, Negi, & Kalagnanam, 2014;Weitzman, Adida, Kelemen, & Mandl, 2011) and restaurant reviews and reservations (Harrison et al, 2014;Nsoesie, Kluberg, & Brownstein, 2014;Nsoesie, Buckeridge, & Brownstein, 2014)…”

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confidence: 99%

The potential use of social media and other internet-related data and communications for child maltreatment surveillance and epidemiological research: Scoping review and recommendations

Schwab‐Reese¹,

Hovdestad²,

Tonmyr³

et al. 2018

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Collecting child maltreatment data is a complicated undertaking for many reasons. As a result, there is an interest by child maltreatment researchers to develop methodologies that allow for the triangulation of data sources. To better understand how social media and internet-based technologies could contribute to these approaches, we conducted a scoping review to provide an overview of social media and internet-based methodologies for health research, to report results of evaluation and validation research on these methods, and to highlight studies with potential relevance to child maltreatment research and surveillance. Many approaches were identified in the broad health literature; however, there has been limited application of these approaches to child maltreatment. The most common use was recruiting participants or engaging existing participants using online methods. From the broad health literature, social media and internet-based approaches to surveillance and epidemiologic research appear promising. Many of the approaches are relatively low cost and easy to implement without extensive infrastructure, but there are also a range of limitations for each method. Several methods have a mixed record of validation and sources of error in estimation are not yet understood or predictable. In addition to the problems relevant to other health outcomes, child maltreatment researchers face additional challenges, including the complex ethical issues associated with both internet-based and child maltreatment research. If these issues are adequately addressed, social media and internet-based technologies may be a promising approach to reducing some of the limitations in existing child maltreatment data.

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“…Other developments are the use of social media to trace the source of a food safety crisis. Research has shown that online illness reports can complement the traditional surveillance systems (Nsoesie and others ). In combination with the development of fast screening and detection methods and systems to link these big data, this could mean a big step forward in a fast management of food safety crises.…”

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Food Safety Crisis Management—A Comparison between Germany and the Netherlands

Asselt

Fels‐Klerx

Breuer³

et al. 2017

Journal of Food Science

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In order to prevent food safety incidents from becoming a crisis, a good crisis management structure is essential. The aim of the current study was to compare and evaluate the national food incident response plans of 2 neighboring EU Member States: Germany and the Netherlands. This revealed that the structure of these plans is comparable, starting with initial alerting, assessment of the problem, upscaling, an execution phase and finally an evaluation of the crisis management. However, the German communication structure is more complex than the Dutch one and cross-border communication between both countries is currently limited. In general, the presence of national response plans does not guarantee a good and swift response to a food safety incident as this is often hampered by difficulties in tracing the source of the problem as well as difficulties in communication between organizations involved in crisis management. A timely detection can be improved through the development of fast screening and detecting systems and through combining various data sources using computer software systems. Mutual cooperation and communication can be improved through joint exercises or projects. This will help to streamline communication toward consumers and trade partners. Such communication should be transparent relaying not only the facts but also the uncertainties in a crisis in order to gain consumer trust and safeguard international trade.

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Online reports of foodborne illness capture foods implicated in official foodborne outbreak reports

Cited by 82 publications

References 23 publications

Bioactive Compounds of Cold-pressed Thyme (<i>Thymus vulgaris</i>) Oil with Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties

Bioactive Compounds of Cold-pressed Thyme (<i>Thymus vulgaris</i>) Oil with Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties

The potential use of social media and other internet-related data and communications for child maltreatment surveillance and epidemiological research: Scoping review and recommendations

Food Safety Crisis Management—A Comparison between Germany and the Netherlands

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