Authors: Jones, Sarah L.¹; Parry, Sharon M.¹; O'Brien, Sarah J.²; Palmer, Stephen R.¹

Source: Journal of Food Protection®, Volume 71, Number 3, March 2008 , pp. 550-557(8)

Publisher: International Association for Food Protection

Abstract:

Despite structured enforcement of food hygiene requirements known to prevent foodborne disease outbreaks, catering businesses continue to be the most common setting for outbreaks in the United Kingdom. In a matched case control study of catering businesses, 148 businesses associated with outbreaks were compared with 148 control businesses. Hazard analysis critical control point systems and/or formal food hygiene training qualifications were not protective. Food hygiene inspection scores were not useful in predicting which catering businesses were associated with outbreaks. Businesses associated with outbreaks were more likely to be larger small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or to serve Chinese cuisine and less likely to have the owner or manager working in the kitchen, but when size of the SME was taken into account these two differences were no longer significant. In larger businesses, case businesses were more likely to be hotels and were more commonly associated with viral foodborne outbreaks, but there was no explanation within the data for this association.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Centre for Health Science Research, School of Medicine, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff, Wales CF14 4YS, UK 2: Department of Health Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Manchester, Clinical Sciences Building, Hope Hospital, Salford, England M6 8HD, UK

Publication date: 2008-03-01

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