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Volume 24, Number 12—December 2018

Synopsis

Restaurant Inspection Letter Grades and Salmonella Infections, New York, New York, USA

Melanie J. FirestoneComments to Author  and Craig W. Hedberg
Author affiliations: University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence, Minneapolis

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Table 1

Confirmed Salmonella infection case counts, rates, and percent changes for New York, NY, USA, and the rest of the state, 1994–2015*

Year
 NYC
NYS
No. cases
 Rate per 100,000 population
 Year-to-year change, %
 No. cases
 Rate per 100,000 population
 Year-to-year change, %
1994 1,890 25.0 – 1,977 18.2 –
1995 2,166 28.4 13.7 1,912 17.6 −3.3
1996 1,927 25.0 −11.8 1,940 17.8 1.5
1997 1,772 22.8 −8.9 1,649 15.2 −14.9
1998 1,751 22.3 −2.3 1,680 15.4 1.7
1999 1,508 19.0 −14.8 1,516 13.9 −10.1
2000 1,215 15.2 −20.1 1,293 11.8 −15.1
2001 1,386 17.2 13.5 1,397 12.7 7.7
2002 1,458 18.1 5.0 1,613 14.6 15.0
2003 1,307 16.2 −10.3 1,282 11.5 −20.8
2004 1,273 15.8 −2.3 1,291 11.6 0.5
2005† 1,203 15.0 -5.1 1,427 12.8 10.6
2006 1,272 15.9 6.0 1,423 12.8 −0.2
2007 1,304 16.3 2.3 1,476 13.3 3.7
2008 1,268 15.7 −3.4 1,491 13.4 0.8
2009 1,236 15.2 −3.3 1,370 12.3 −8.4
2010‡ 1,304 15.9 4.7 1,448 12.9 5.4
2011 1,125 13.6 −14.7 1,423 12.7 −1.9
2012 1,171 14.0 3.1 1,395 12.4 −2.0
2013 1,124 13.3 −4.8 1,300 11.6 −6.9
2014 987 11.6 −12.8 1,320 11.7 1.6
2015
 918
 10.7
 −7.8
1,314
 11.7
 0.0
Period-to-period change, 1994–2005 vs. 2006–2010 −22.8 −10.6
Period-to-period change, 2006–2010 vs. 2011–2014 −20.0 −7.1
Period-to-period change, 1994–2010 vs. 2011–2015 −32.6 −14.1

*Percentages were calculated from unrounded values; the values shown may be different when calculated from the rounded values in the table. NYC, New York City; NYS, rest of New York state.
†Year of implementation of point scores for food safety inspections.
‡Year of implementation of letter grades for food safety inspections.

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