Evaluating food safety management systems in Singapore: A controlled interrupted time-series analysis of foodborne disease outbreak reports
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Aik, Joel; Turner, Robin; Kirk, Martyn; Heywood, A E; Newall, Anthony T
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Food catering service establishments are often implicated in foodborne disease outbreaks. We evaluated the effects of implementing Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) in food catering service establishments in Singapore on two outcome measures: foodborne disease outbreaks and food hygiene violations. Using a controlled interrupted time-series study design, we estimated the change in the average level of these outcome measures following implementation, and compared the pre- and...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Aik, Joel | |
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dc.contributor.author | Turner, Robin | |
dc.contributor.author | Kirk, Martyn | |
dc.contributor.author | Heywood, A E | |
dc.contributor.author | Newall, Anthony T | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-01T04:30:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-01T04:30:46Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0956-7135 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/261601 | |
dc.description.abstract | Food catering service establishments are often implicated in foodborne disease outbreaks. We evaluated the effects of implementing Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) in food catering service establishments in Singapore on two outcome measures: foodborne disease outbreaks and food hygiene violations. Using a controlled interrupted time-series study design, we estimated the change in the average level of these outcome measures following implementation, and compared the pre- and post-intervention trends. There were 42 foodborne disease outbreaks and 521 food hygiene violations associated with catering service establishments from 2012 to 2018. Eighteen months after FSMS implementation, we observed a 78.4% decrease (IRR: 0.216, 95% CI: 0.050 to 0.940, p=0.041) in the average level of foodborne outbreaks in food catering service establishments. There was no significant effect on reported hygiene violations. Our study suggests that the FSMS implementation was successful in reducing foodborne outbreaks. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
dc.rights | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/ | |
dc.source | Food Control | |
dc.subject | Food safety management systems | |
dc.subject | Time series | |
dc.subject | Singapore | |
dc.subject | Foodborne disease | |
dc.subject | Outbreaks | |
dc.subject | Catering services | |
dc.title | Evaluating food safety management systems in Singapore: A controlled interrupted time-series analysis of foodborne disease outbreak reports | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 117 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 111711 - Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance) | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a383154xPUB13282 | |
local.publisher.url | https://www.elsevier.com/en-au | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Aik, Joel, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Turner, Robin, University of Otago | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Kirk, Martyn, College of Health and Medicine, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Heywood, A E, University of New South Wales | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Newall, Anthony T, University of New South Wales | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 8 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107324 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 920406 - Food Safety | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-12-20T07:20:15Z | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
dc.provenance | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/). | |
dc.rights.license | CC BY license | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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