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Lindqvist R, Langerholc T, Ranta J, Hirvonen T, Sand S
Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr . 2019 Nov; 60(20):3461-3474. PMID: 31760761
This article compares and contrasts microbial and chemical risk assessment methodologies in order to evaluate the potential for a common framework for ranking of risk of chemical and microbiological hazards,...
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Ronnqvist M, Valttila V, Ranta J, Tuominen P
Food Microbiol . 2018 Jan; 71:93-97. PMID: 29366475
Pigs are an important source of human infections with Salmonella, one of the most common causes of sporadic gastrointestinal infections and foodborne outbreaks in the European region. Feed has been...
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Vilar M, Ranta J, Virtanen S, Korkeala H
Biomed Res Int . 2015 Nov; 2015:931542. PMID: 26539540
Bayesian analysis was used to estimate the pig's and herd's true prevalence of enteropathogenic Yersinia in serum samples collected from Finnish pig farms. The sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic...
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Ronnqvist M, Aho E, Mikkela A, Ranta J, Tuominen P, Ratto M, et al.
Appl Environ Microbiol . 2014 Jun; 80(17):5403-10. PMID: 24951789
Human noroviruses (HuNoVs), a leading cause of food-borne gastroenteritis worldwide, are easily transferred via ready-to-eat (RTE) foods, often prepared by infected food handlers. In this study, the transmission of HuNoV...
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Lievonen S, Ranta J, Maijala R
J Food Prot . 2007 Nov; 70(10):2266-72. PMID: 17969607
Foodborne outbreaks are often reported to be acquired at food service establishments. As a part of a quantitative risk assessment on the consumer risk of contracting Salmonella infection via shell...
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Tuominen P, Ranta J, Maijala R
J Food Prot . 2006 Aug; 69(8):1814-22. PMID: 16924904
Additional guarantees (AGs) for Salmonella in imported defined animal-derived foods were agreed on for Finland when it was admitted to the European Community. The aim of this project was to...
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Maijala R, Ranta J, Seuna E, Pelkonen S, Johansson T
Int J Food Microbiol . 2005 May; 102(1):21-35. PMID: 15913822
In order to study the public health effects of the Finnish Salmonella control program (FSCP), a quantitative risk assessment model of Salmonella from slaughtered broiler flocks to consumers was developed....
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Ranta J, Makela P, Arjas E
Stat Med . 2004 Mar; 23(6):927-45. PMID: 15027081
Rational decision making on whether some form of intervention would be necessary to control the spread of a meningococcal epidemic is based on predictions concerning its potential natural progression. Unfortunately,...
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Rytkonen M, Moltchanova E, Ranta J, Taskinen O, Tuomilehto J, Karvonen M
Health Place . 2003 Sep; 9(4):315-25. PMID: 14499216
The aim of the study was to investigate the incidence of type 1 diabetes among children aged 14 years or under according to the level of urbanization of the place...
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Ranta J, Hovi T, Arjas E
Risk Anal . 2002 Feb; 21(6):1087-96. PMID: 11824684
Efficiency of environmental surveillance of poliovirus circulation was studied using simulation models. First, three transmission models were defined for describing different scenarios of poliovirus infections in a large unstructured population....