The Oregon Foodborne Illness Prevention Program mission is to implement and maintain intervention orregulatory strategies to prevent illness and injury as a result of patronage of food, pool and lodging facilities.Oregon EHS-Net has three charges, they are;(1) to identify and define environmental antecedents offoodborne illness and disease outbreaks, with an eye toward sharing the information with other states (2) totest practical environmental public health surveillance and control strategies that can be exported tonon-EHS-Net settings. (3) to collaborate with other EHS-Net sites, CDC,state and local epidemiologists, clinicallaboratories and environmental health specialists to design surveillance systemsthat produce moregeneralizable pictures of foodborne disease patterns. By establishing EHS-Net Sites as part of CDC'sFoodnet Project, within selected State public-health agencies, CDC has created a national environmentalpublic health resource. The purpose of the EHS-Net sites is to address national and state priorities related tothe identification, definition, surveillance, prevention, and control of environmental antecedents to diseaseoutbreaks.This program will conduct statewide epidemiologic investigations into the antecedent causes of foodborneillness outbreaks. This investigational work may occur in any of Oregon's 36 counties.
