How can the use of laboratory data as a prevention measure help enhance the investigation of disease outbreak?

Food Safety Course: The laboratory plays an important role in the investigation and identification of the cause of food borne illness outbreaks, The lab can be a much more important, and less celebrated, tool to prevent an outbreak of disease.

1. which steps of the food processing and distribution systems are of the most value in evaluation the risk?

2. How can this information be incorporated into safety inspections to improve the integrity of the system?

3. How can the use of laboratory data as a prevention measure help enhance the investigation of disease outbreak?

instructions:

It must be at least 400 words in response to a specific question provided on the discussion board forum for the module. Students should include at least one in-text citation and reference to the textbook or a government publication in each initial thread. All citations must be consistent with AMA formatting style guide.