Investigation Report Outbreaks of Food Poisoning

ABTRACT
Food is known as lane spread of pathogens and toxins produced by pathogenic microbes. Improper
food management or food contaminated by the bacteria can cause food poisoning and often cause of
Outbreak.
This investigation is a case-control study. Sampling technique used in this investigation is total
sampling. The data used are primary and secondary data which will be with analiasis descriptive.
Outbreaks of food poisoning occurred in the village of the District Tegalsari Tempursari Lumajang on
25 April 20015 on the celebration of 40 birth the newborn. The number of invitations is 28 households.
The food served is sweet tea while the food take-away is rice, chicken, noodles, fried sauce, lodeh,
urapan, egg, botokan and iwel-iwel. Around begin at 17:30 on the same day, some people started
going to the nearest health facility with symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache and
heartburn. Based on the results of a report from the Health Office of Lumajang District well as results
of tracking cases until 26 April 2014 total case recorded is 64 people, mostly experienced by women
(AR = 70.21%). If viewed by age group, outbreaks of food poisoning in Lumajang mostly attacking
children of school age is 6 -11 (AR = 100%). Based on results of laboratory food tests, source of food
poisoning is a vegetable (tempe and peanut) with a value of AR = 9.05. The cause of outbreaks of
food poisoning is the presence of E. Coli.
Keyword :Food Poisoning, E.coli