At a glance
Read articles by IFSAC scientists and other publications related to foodborne illness in the United States.
2025
Attribution of Salmonella enterica to Food Sources by Using Whole-Genome Sequencing Data
Rose E, Steele MK, Tolar B, Pettengill J, Batz M, Bazaco M, et al. Attribution of Salmonella enterica to Food Sources by Using Whole-Genome Sequencing Data. Emerg Infect Dis. 2025;31(4):783-790.
What Foods Make People Sick? This Federal Collaboration Seeks to Find Out
Bazaco MC, Chen Parker C, Carstens CK, Waldrop C, Tierney RT, Weller D, Schwarz K, Cote A, McWilliams B. What Foods Make People Sick? This Federal Collaboration Seeks to Find Out. Food Safety Magazine. 2025 Jan.
2020
Recency-Weighted Statistical Modeling Approach to Attribute Illnesses Caused by 4 Pathogens to Food Sources Using Outbreak Data, United States
Batz MB, Richardson LC, Bazaco MC, Parker CC, Chirtel SJ, Cole D, Golden NJ, Griffin PM, Gu W, Schmitt SK, Wolpert BJ, Zablotsky Kufel JS, Hoekstra RM. Recency-weighted statistical modeling approach to attribute illnesses caused by 4 pathogens to food sources using outbreak data, United States. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Jan; 27(1).
2017
An Updated Scheme for Categorizing Foods Implicated in Foodborne Disease Outbreaks: A Tri-Agency Collaboration
Richardson LC, Bazaco MC, Parker CC, Dewey-Mattia D, Golden N, Jones K, Klontz K, Travis C, Zablotsky Kufel J, Cole D. An updated scheme for categorizing foods implicated in foodborne disease outbreaks: a tri-agency collaboration. Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2017 Dec 1; 14(12):701–710.
2016
Comparing Characteristics of Sporadic and Outbreak-Associated Foodborne Illnesses, United States, 2004–2011
Ebel ED, Williams MS, Cole D, Travis CC, Klontz KC, Golden NJ, Hoekstra RM. Comparing characteristics of sporadic and outbreak-associated foodborne illnesses, United States, 2004–2011. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016;22(7):1193-1200.
Other Publications
- Attribution of Foodborne Illnesses, Hospitalizations, and Deaths to Food Commodities by using Outbreak Data, United States, 1998–2008 - John A. Painter, Robert M. Hoekstra, Tracy Ayers, Robert V. Tauxe, Christopher R. Braden, Frederick J. Angulo, and Patricia M. Griffin. 2013.
- Attributing human foodborne illness to food sources and water in Latin America and the Caribbean using data from outbreak investigations. - Sara M. Pires, Antonio R. Vieira, Enrique Perez, Danilo Lo Fo Wong, Tine Hald. 2012.
- Ranking the Disease Burden of 14 Pathogens in Food Sources in the United States Using Attribution Data from Outbreak Investigations and Expert Elicitation – Michael B. Batz, Sandra Hoffmann, Glenn Morris Jr. 2012.
- Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens - Elaine Scallan, Robert M. Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo, Robert V. Tauxe, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Sharon L. Roy, Jeffery L. Jones, and Patricia M. Griffin. 2011.
- Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Unspecified Agents - Elaine Scallan, Patricia M. Griffin, Frederick J. Angulo, Robert V. Tauxe, and Robert M. Hoekstra. 2011.
- Application of Bayesian techniques to model the burden of human salmonellosis attributable to U.S. Food commodities at the point of processing: adaptation of a Danish model.- Chuanfa Guo, Robert M. Hoekstra, Carl M. Schroeder, Sara Monteiro Pires, Kanyin Liane Ong, Emma Hartnett, Alecia Naugle, Jane Harman, Patricia Bennett, Paul Cieslak, Elaine Scallan, Bonnie Rose, Kristin G. Holt, Bonnie Kissler, Evelyne Mbandi, Reza Roodsari, Frederick J. Angulo, and Dana Cole.2011.
- Using outbreak data for source attribution of human salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis in Europe. - Sara Monteiro Pires, Håkan Vigre, Pia Makela, and Tine Hald. 2010.
- Attributing the human disease burden of foodborne infections to specific sources. -Sara M. Pires, Eric G. Evers, Wilfrid van Pelt, Tracy Ayers, Elaine Scallan, Frederick J. Angulo, Arie Havelaar, and Tine Hald. 2009.
- Recipes for foodborne outbreaks: a scheme for categorizing and grouping implicated foods - John A. Painter, Tracy Ayers, Rachel Woodruff, Elizabeth Blanton, Nytzia Perez, Robert M. Hoekstra, Patricia M. Griffin, and Christopher Braden. 2009.
- Attributing Illness to Food - Michael B. Batz, Michael P. Doyle, J. Glenn Morris, John Painter, Ruby Singh, Robert V. Tauxe, Michael R. Taylor, Danilo M.A. Lo Fo Wong, and for the Food Attribution Working Group. 2005.
- A Bayesian approach to quantify the contribution of animal-food sources to human salmonellosis - Tine Hald, David Vose, Henrik C. Wegener, Timour Koupeey. 2004.