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Why Subscribe to iwaspoisoned.com?

Mitigate the Risk of a Food Safety Scare

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The Leading Consumer Food Safety Platform

Mission:

To advance food safety by connecting consumers, industry, and public health everywhere.

How we Help:

We give customers a dedicated platform to report food poisoning then collect and pass reports to subscribers to spot potential problems & for resolution.

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How it Works

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Public Health Subscriber Program

Health Agency subscribers covering over 93% of the Country at the City, County, and State levels.

Ad-hoc inspections and complaint investigations carried out based off of iwaspoisoned.com reports

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Restaurant Subscriber Program

$20/month per location  

Direct Communication With Complainant

Unrestricted private communication allows for Customer Recovery & Customer Education. Message users immediately after a report is created and validated.

  • Overview: We allow businesses to communicate directly with complainants via our secure ticketing system to try and resolve the complaint.

  • Service: Our ticket system allows for direct communication with customers while keeping the necessary privacy and trust.
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Daily Alerts

Close the Information Gap – Ensure you are getting the same actionable intelligence as public health agencies. Alert of all Public & Private reports (only around 30% of the users choose to show on our website) sent as a daily email.

  • Overview: State and major metropolitan public health agencies that cover 90 percent of the U.S. population receive our detailed reports each day, often triggering automatic inspections of restaurants and food-service facilities.

  • Service: Subscribing brands will receive daily alerts allowing the brand to become aware of potential inspections providing the opportunity to improve outcomes.
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Outbreak Detection

Protect and empower brands with pre-emptive intelligence. Get reports for your restaurants as they happen (e.g. faster than public health)

  • Overview: Get reports as they happen. iwaspoisoned.com has a track record of identifying outbreaks before they become news.

  • Service: Our system is constantly scanning for outbreaks and clusters of social media chatter & web coverage which helps identify contamination cases, that can result in a store shutdown. Subscribed brands will get early, intraday warning alerts if there is a relevant cluster of concern.


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Advisory Board & Founder

  • Team member
    Dr. Lee-Ann Jaykus

    William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences at NC State University. Lee-Ann is the scientific director of the USDA-NIFA Food Virology Collaborative. Previous president of the International Association for Food Protection.

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    Dr. Ben Chapman

    Associate professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. Ben has designed, implemented and evaluated on-farm food safety programs; consulted for industry and government around food safety issues.

  • Team member
    Dr. Hal King

    President and CEO of Public Health Innovations LLC. Former director of Food & Product Safety at Chick-fil-A Inc. Worked on preventing the adulteration of foods in the U.S. Army Reserves. Has investigated foodborne and other disease outbreaks at CDC, and researched disease causation at Emory University School of Medicine.

  • Team member
    Kathleen Kennedy

    Director of Special Projects at MIT, Executive Director of the Center for Collective Intelligence at the MIT Sloan School. Lead organizer of The Engine, venture fund and accelerator program. Former President, Chief Strategy Officer, MIT Technology Review.

  • Team member
    Patrick Quade
    Founder

    Speaker at major food safety industry conferences:

    • International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New York
    • California Restaurant Association
    • Florida Restaurant & Lodging Show
    • U.S. Food & Drug Administration

$20/month per location to monitor Food Safety Reports