{"id":659282,"date":"2024-04-02T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=659282"},"modified":"2024-03-27T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:09:15","slug":"fda-uses-arcgis-business-analyst-for-retail-food-risk-factor-study","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/fda-uses-arcgis-business-analyst-for-retail-food-risk-factor-study","title":{"rendered":"FDA Uses ArcGIS Business Analyst for Retail Food Risk Factor Study"},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10552,430101,931],"tags":[338402,486392,482792,160522,284632],"arcnews_issues":[488602],"class_list":["post-659282","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-business-analyst","category-public-health","category-spatial-analysis","tag-food","tag-foodborne-illness","tag-geospatial-analysis","tag-health","tag-restaurants","arcnews_issues-spring-2024","arcnews_sections-your-work"],"acf":{"short_description":"The US Food and Drug Administration is using GIS to collect data on foodborne illness risk factors in US retail food service facilities.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"One responsibility of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is protecting and ensuring the safety of the country\u2019s food supply. For a study that began in 2023 and is scheduled to end in 2027, the FDA national retail food team is collecting data on foodborne illness risk factors in US retail food service facilities. The study assesses food safety practices and procedures in areas such as employee handwashing, prevention of bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat food, and prevention of cross-contamination. It builds on data from a 1998\u20132008 study that established a baseline for these factors.\r\n\r\nAccording to Dr. Guilan Huang, regulatory information specialist for the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, such studies measure practices and behaviors identified by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as contributing to food-borne illness outbreaks. The studies also measure progress in reducing foodborne illness risk factors, examine the relationship between known risk factors and food-handling practices, and evaluate the effectiveness of food safety management systems and certified food protection managers."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Using GIS to Overcome Resource Limitations<\/h2>\r\nThe National Restaurant Association estimates that there were 749,000 restaurants in the United States in 2023. However, the FDA has only 20\u201324 retail food specialists available at any one time for data collection. Because of the limited number of specialists and the travel needed for data collection, the FDA needed a random sampling procedure that provided a high level of accuracy and that minimized travel time. And because of the length of the multiyear study, a flexible method was needed that could be easily adapted for changes in collection areas, personnel, or procedures.\r\n\r\nAfter investigating different methodologies, the FDA selected spatially random sampling, which involves random selection of sample facilities in which each facility has an equal chance to be selected. Huang implemented it by creating buffered areas centered on the specialists\u2019 ZIP codes.\r\n\r\nUsing ArcGIS Business Analyst for the desktop and the product\u2019s accompanying datasets, Standard Industrial Classification and North American Industry Classification System codes from the US government were applied, Huang said. She added that multi-layer filters were created using the codes, key words extracted from the FDA\u2019s Retail Food Risk Factor Study, and data from the previous 10-year study and the current study."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":659312,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cSpatial analysis was fundamental in conducting this study because it allowed us to customize cost-effective spatially random sampling and perform rigorous quantitative analyses,\u201d Huang said. She added that she hopes that the research will lead state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies as well as industry to develop and implement retail food safety policies and initiatives that target specific interventions that reduce foodborne illness risk factors."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FDA Uses ArcGIS Business Analyst for Retail Food Risk Factor Study | Spring 2024 | ArcNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The US Food and Drug Administration is using GIS to collect data on foodborne illness risk factors in US retail food service facilities.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/fda-uses-arcgis-business-analyst-for-retail-food-risk-factor-study\" 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