Foodborne disease outbreaks in flour and flour-based food products from microbial pathogens in the United States, and their health economic burden.
Risk Anal
; 43(12): 2519-2526, 2023 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-37081547
ABSTRACT
The most comprehensive and inclusive estimates for the economic burden of foodborne illness yield values as high as $97.4 billion USD annually. However, broad incidence and cost estimates have limited use if they cannot be attributed to specific foods, for the purposes of food safety control. In this study, we estimated the economic burden of foodborne illnesses resulting from flour and flour-based food products in the United States from the years 2001 to 2021. The outbreak, illness burden, and health economic data are combined to generate these estimates. Our model combined outbreak data with published Centers for Disease Control and Prevention multipliers to estimate the annual number of illnesses associated with flour-borne pathogens. We then integrated illness severity data with an updated economic model that accounts for costs related to medical care, productivity loss, loss of life, along with the quality of life loss that entails pain and suffering. In total, 752 cases and 223 hospitalizations from flour-related illnesses were reported from 2001 to 2021, with an average of 37.6 cases of reported cases annually. However, the actual number of cases, accounting for underreporting and underdiagnosis, can be as high as 19,440 annually. Pathogens involved in these outbreaks are Salmonella, E. coli O157H7, and E. coli O121. Our estimates suggest average annual economic losses, including healthy years of life lost, of $108 and $258 million using two alternative models.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Qualidade de Vida
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Doenças Transmitidas por Alimentos
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Risk Anal
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos