date:Aug 27, 2014
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Foodborne Chicago tweets as @foodbornechi.
As Choucair and his coauthors noted in a paper in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the program was launched in March 2013.
During the first 10 months of the program, Foodborne Chicago identified 270 tweets describing complaints of food poisoning.
A total of 193 complaints were then submitted through the website, which lead to unannounced health inspections at 133 restaurants.