During the recent romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak, the CDC website page for E. Coli got 2 million page views. The month before that, it had gotten just 125,000.
That’s according to Elizabeth Greene of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who, at the recent International Association for Food Protection’s Annual Meeting, was part of a panel called “Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Transparency? Different Perspectives on Deciding When to Communicate during a Food Safety Outbreak.”