CDC’s redesigned online foodborne outbreak search tool—named the Foodborne Outbreak Online Database Tool or FOOD Tool—includes bold interactive features that allow users to comb through nearly 20 years of outbreak data sorted by state, food or germ.
Originally launched in 2009, the recently updated tool includes national data from all outbreaks reported to CDC from 1998 through 2014. New interactive features including maps, graphs and tables that allow users to search by specific foods and ingredients, view a “quick stats” display and get case counts for multistate outbreaks.