OzFoodNet: a network for enhancing food-borne disease surveillance and investigation across Australia

Abstract

The Australian Government established OzFoodNet in 2000 to enhance surveillance and determine the burden of infection from food-borne illness across Australia. The OzFoodNet network collaborates nationally to investigate food-borne disease. OzFoodNet has three main areas of work, which are to: ? Determine the burden of food-borne illness in Australia. ? Identify the causes of food-borne disease. ? Coordinate investigations into outbreaks of food-borne illness.