date:May 16, 2012
urveillance tools set up in the years that followed - FoodNet, PulseNet, Listeria Initiative, and the Food Disease Outbreak Surveillance System or FDOSS - have combined to improve the Listeria outlook.
FoodNet, set up in 1995, monitors trends for individual foodborne illnesses like E coli O157:H7, Salmonella and Listeria. PulseNet connects cases to track outbreaks of foodborne illness. Mahon says that while only the large multistate outbreaks get much attention, about 1,000 outbreaks a year ar