Because interviews, population control comparisons, and product distribution limited suspected foods to strawberries, cilantro, and basil, we began preliminary traceback of all 3 suspected items.
We combined multiple techniques, including early consultation with food regulators, traceback of suspected items, and grocery store loyalty card records, to identify a single vehicle for a cyclosporiasis outbreak in British Columbia, Canada, in 2007.
In 2007, the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control used early collaboration with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), grocery card shopping records, and product traceback for several suspected items simultaneously to successfully implicate a vehicle in a community Cyclospora outbreak.
The Mexican farm was located in a region previously linked to cyclosporiasis outbreaks (R. Cardinal, CFIA, pers. comm).. Detailed interviews, modified traceback of several suspected items, and information about product distribution and market share led to organic basil as a primary hypothesis.
But there it was — an old Chinese edition of the whole thing — amid other morally and politically suspect items discarded by nervous owners after Mao Zedong's takeover the previous year.
Even cafeterias that serve up healthy choices like whole wheat pizza, salad and bean burritos may also offer nutritionally suspect items like chicken nuggets and fries that children can buy on their own.
As the focus turns more to identifying suspect travelers, not just suspect items, the government is also looking at data that airlines and travel agents have collected on their customers, ranging from birth dates and passport numbers to potentially confidential details apparent in travel itineraries (like a flight to Pakistan) and group discount codes (for a trip to a conference, for instance).
That panel, the British official said, could deny a sale entirely, exercise a line-item veto or ask that United Nations monitors track the ultimate destination and use of a suspect item in Iraq.
A standard one-item-at-a-time DIF analysis was performed in which each item was used as a suspect item and the rest serving as the matching criterion.
Hours later, Greater Manchester Police announced that the suspect item was not a "viable device".
