Food Safety: FDA's Imported Seafood Safety Program Shows Some Progress, But Further Improvements are Needed : Report to Congressional Requesters

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United States General Accounting Office, 2004 - Food industry and trade - 55 pages
 

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Page 43 - Comments From the Department of Health and Human Services Note: GAO comments supplementing those in the report text appear at the end of this appendix. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Office of Inspector General Washington, DC 20201 FES i Mr.
Page 7 - CDC estimates that contaminated food causes 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year.
Page 34 - This is the interval that would contain the actual population value for 95 percent of the samples we could have drawn. As a result, we are 95 percent confident that each of the confidence intervals in this report will include the true values in the study population.
Page 43 - The Agency provided technical comments directly to your staff. We appreciate the opportunity to review and comment on this draft report before its publication as well as the opportunity to work with your staff in finalizing this report.
Page 34 - Because we followed a probability procedure based on random selections, our sample is only one of a large number of samples that we might have drawn. Since each sample could have provided different estimates, we express our confidence in the precision of our particular sample's results as a 95 percent confidence interval.
Page 2 - Interior transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior by Reorg.
Page 1 - Molluscan shellfish — oysters, clams, mussels, and whole or roe-on scallops — are discussed in a separate report. CDC derives estimates of foodborne illness from, among other things, reported occurrences of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food, which is referred to as an outbreak.
Page 52 - Comments From the Food and Drug Administration The following are GAO's comments on the Food and Drug Administration's letter dated January 17, 2001.
Page 45 - ... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA], National Marine Fisheries Service [NMFS], and the Marine Mammal Commission [MMC].

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