New online database by CSPI

A new online database is offered by CSPI: It is part of the group's continuing quest to "modernize" food safety laws, raise awareness of foodborne illness, add funding and inspection capacity to the FDA. From the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has tracked foodborne illness outbreaks -- events where two or more people become ill from eating the same food -- since 1997. The Outbreak Alert! database includes only outbreaks where both the food and pathogen have been identified and currently has information on 5,000 outbreaks that occurred between 1990 to 2004. For a summary of the outbreak data, see our latest Outbreak Alert! report.