Post-incident Support
An incident does not stop after all of the associated food has
been recalled. IEH provides what is needed to bring true
closure to an incident in two critical areas.
Firstly,
IEH will conduct an intensive post-incident analysis of all
of the data to pinpoint what went wrong. The information is
used to design preventative measures that will help ensure that
future occurrences can be avoided. The preventative measures
are comprehensive in nature, and would span the range of addressing
the specific circumstances that might have occurred in a single
store to enterprise-wide changes in food safety management plans,
monitoring tools and data management.
Secondly,
IEH can provide experienced and effective post-incident litigation
support to identify and limit the extent of damage claims. The
medical and epidemiological expertise that IEH can provide,
combined with molecular fingerprinting of pathogens, can provide
a realistic assessment of the probabilities of associating a
foodborne illness outbreak with a alleged source, and a rational
no-nonsense description of how the incident and health effects
experienced by alleged victims compare and contrast with present
and historical trends in foodborne illness outbreaks.