Quantitative Risk Assessment: An Emerging Tool for Emerging Foodborne Pathogens

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 483-487

  Lammerding, Anna M ^a,c   Paoli, Greg M ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Decisionalysis Risk Consultants Inc   (Canada)

^c Health of Animals Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0031255918     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0304.970411     Document Type: Article

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