The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene deserves substantial credit for leading the charge for targeted disclosure and, more important, making detailed inspection data publicly available.
Restaurant inspection data were available from 49 restaurants that were identified as the source of foodborne disease outbreaks investigated by health departments in Tennessee from 1999 to 2002.
Specifically, SICTT results and post-mortem abattoir inspection data were made available from the Animal and Public Health Information System (Abernethy et al., 2006) of the NI Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
By making building inspection data and violation history available online for both citizens and government officials, we can keep our children safe and prevent devastating future incidents like this from ever happening in the first place.
Publicly available inspection data from the City of Rochester and a data-sharing agreement with the health department made it possible to extend parts of this analysis through the third and fourth years of implementation (2008 2009 and 2009 2010).
We are hopeful the Supervisor of Elections will cooperate and make that data available for inspection," Edson said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
Retrospective exposure estimates were developed using a combination of government inspection reports, company compliance-monitoring data (available from 1974), and professional judgment (Amandus et al. 1987; McDonald et al. 1986).
Data available for each inspection included overall score, specific violations cited, establishment name and identification number, county, date of inspection, inspector, and time spent on inspection.
make all data available for verification, audit and inspection purposes as necessary, Argentina Hospital Nacional Profesor Alejandro Posadas, Illia y Marconi, Haedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The limited data available on outbreaks in Tennessee suggest that restaurant inspection scores alone do not predict the likelihood of a foodborne outbreak occurring in a particular establishment.
