Relating Numbers of Foodborne Pathogens to Human Illness
Food Safety Initiative Technical Workshop:
Relating Numbers of Foodborne Pathogens to Human Illness
Introduction | Program | Talks | Abstracts | Qs & As | Slides | Biographies
Tuesday, August
4, 1998
Atrium, Stamp
Student Union
University
of Maryland
College Park,
MD
On August 4, 1998, the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition hosted a technical workshop on "Relating Numbers of Foodborne Pathogens to Human Illness." The purpose of this meeting was to explore several topics related to quantifying the risk of illness associated with microorganisms found in food. It considered methodologies used in a broad spectrum of scientific research, and assessed the adaptation of these methods for building dose-response models for microbial risk assessment. Topics included epidemiological correlations, human clinical studies, animal dose-response studies, mechanistic studies of pathogenesis and correlations of host resistance and susceptibility with biomarkers. These studies were considered in terms of ability to provide precise and useful information for risk assessment models. Emphasis was placed on modeling susceptible populations, use of animal models and improvement of methods of data collection. The meeting facilitated scientific discussion for the benefit of the scientific community, which included: (1) identification of additional data needs for building dose-response models, (2) adaptations to these studies that would make them more useful for addressing foodborne pathogens and (3) evaluation of the information provided by such models in estimating the likelihood and severity of human disease from a given dose.
This website presents a transcription of the workshop, offering an agenda with links to the talks and abstracts, slides, questions and answer sessions, and speaker biographies. We welcome your comments on any aspect of this workshop.
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modified: May 19, 1999
Updated October 3, 2007 to fit new site design
