Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal

Volume 3, Issue 2, April to June 2012

Food Safety

Editorial

Food safety surveillance and response
Jenny Bishop and Angelika Tritscher

Perspective

Strengthening collaboration on chemical hazards in food among food safety authorities and the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific Region
Philippe Verger and Jenny Bishop

Surveillance for action – managing foodborne Campylobacter in New Zealand
Donald Campbell, Peter van der Logt and Steve Hathaway

Original Research

Use of prohibition order after a large outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by a norovirus among function attendees
Praveena Gunaratnam, Catriona Furlong, Kirsty Hope, Leena Jupta, Craig Shadbolt, John Shields, Rodney McCarthy, Rowena Boyd, Essi Huhtinen, Sophie Norton and Siranda Torvaldsen

A large point-source outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to chicken, pork and salad rolls from a Vietnamese bakery in Sydney
Sophie Norton, Essi Huhtinen, Stephen Conaty, Kirsty Hope, Brett Campbell, Marianne Tegel, Rowena Boyd and Beth Cullen

Lessons from the Field

“Shake, Rattle and Roll”: risk assessment and management for food safety during two Christchurch earthquakes
Sally Johnston


Other topics

Perspective

Improved laboratory capacity is required to respond better to future cholera outbreaks in Papua New Guinea
Andrew Greenhill, Alexander Rosewell, Monalisa Kas, Laurens Manning, Leomeldo Latorre, Peter Siba and Paul Horwood

Surveillance Report

Changes in invasive pneumococcal disease serotypes in a regional area of Australia following three years of 7vPCV introduction
Tove Fitzgerald, Peter D Massey and Fakhrul Islam

Incidence of dengue virus infection among Japanese travellers, 2006 to 2010
Naomi Nakamura, Yuzo Arima, Tomoe Shimada, Tamano Matsui, Yuki Tada and Nobuhiko Okabe

Lessons from the Field

Coordination by registered dieticians for nutritional and dietary support in disaster in Japan
Hiroki Yanagihara, Yuko Hatakeyama and Takashi Iwasaki



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