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Titre :	An assessment of the ability of routine restaurant inspections to predict food-borne outbreaks in Miami-Dade County, Florida. (2001)
Auteurs :	Miguel-A CRUZ ; Dolores-J KATZ ; Juan-A Suarez
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 91, n° 5, 2001)
Pagination :	821-823
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Restaurant ; Intoxication alimentaire ; Homme ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Appareil digestif [pathologie] ; Amérique du Nord
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST sR0xh11k. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. This study sought to determine the usefulness of restaurant inspections in predicting food-borne outbreaks in Miami-Dade County, Fla. Methods. Inspection reports of restaurants with outbreaks in 1995 (cases ; n=51) were compared with those of randomly selected restaurants that had no reported outbreaks (controls ; n=76). Results. Cases and controls did not differ by overall inspection outcome or mean number of critical violations. Only 1 critical violation-evidence of vermin-was associated with outbreaks (odds ratio=3.3 ; 95% confidence interval=1.1,13.1). Conclusions. Results of restaurant inspections in Miami-Dade County did not predict outbreaks. If these findings are representative of the situation in other jurisdictions, inspection practices may need to be updated.

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