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American Journal of Public Health, Vol 91, Issue 5 821-823, Copyright © 2001 by American Public Health Association

JOURNAL ARTICLE

An assessment of the ability of routine restaurant inspections to predict food-borne outbreaks in Miami-Dade County, Florida

MA Cruz, DJ Katz and JA Suarez
Office of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Miami-Dade County Health Department, Miami, Fla., USA. mgc8@cdc.gov

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine the usefulness of restaurant inspections in predicting food-borne outbreaks in Miami-Dade County, Fla. METHODS: Inspection reports of restaurants with outbreaks in 1995 (cases; n = 51) were compared with those of randomly selected restaurants that had no reported outbreaks (controls; n = 76). RESULTS: Cases and controls did not differ by overall inspection outcome or mean number of critical violations. Only 1 critical violation--evidence of vermin--was associated with outbreaks (odds ratio = 3.3; 95% confidence interval = 1.1, 13.1). CONCLUSIONS: Results of restaurant inspections in Miami-Dade County did not predict outbreaks. If these findings are representative of the situation in other jurisdictions, inspection practices may need to be updated.


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