Contact your physician: For medical treatment advice and possible treatment, timely consult your doctor. Encourage your physician to run medical tests to identify the exact illness-causing agent since many symptoms mimic food borne illnesses. Make a list of the foods that you have eaten within several days before the illness as it may sometimes take several days for symptoms to arise. Test results and food-eating history are important investigative clues.

Contact Environmental Health: All reports of possible foodborne illness reported to this Division are investigated. If you believe that you became ill due to a food product purchased in Yolo County you may call (530) 666-8646 to report the incident. Be prepared to answer questions about the onset time, duration, and types of symptoms. Try to compile a list of all foods and drinks consumed for the three days prior to the first signs of illness, as this information is critical for the investigation.  To submit a report online, click here

Environmental Health officials track foodborne illness reports to determine if there is a possible foodborne disease outbreak. An outbreak is when two or more people consume the same contaminated food and come down with the same illness. These outbreaks are reported to the California Department of Public Health and to the Centers for Disease Control to watch for larger scale outbreaks. Outbreaks are an indication of something that needs to be improved in the food safety system. Investigations help to identify where these improvements should be made and to put measures into place to prevent future outbreaks.