Glossary of Foodborne Surveillance Terminology
Food Illness Surveillance

EFORS ~ Electronic Foodborne Outbreak Reporting System

-Active at Federal level

-NEDSS compliant

FoodNet ~ The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) is the principal foodborne disease component of CDC's Emerging Infections Program.

-10 states or parts of states

PHLIS ~ the Public Health Laboratory Information System (PHLIS), an electronic reporting system, by the State Public Health Laboratory Directors and State and Territorial Epidemiologists to the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch (FDDB) and the Biostatistics and Information Management Branch (BIMB) of the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases in the National Center for Infectious Diseases.

PulseNet ~ the National Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Disease Surveillance, is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) network of public health laboratories for disease genotyping

NARMS ~ National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System: Enteric Bacteria

-50 States

NNDSS ~ National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System Reports via the National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS)

NEDSS ~ National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) is an initiative that promotes the use of data and information system standards to advance the development of efficient, integrated, and interoperable surveillance systems at federal, state and local levels.