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... Often, food-borne outbreaks cannot be clarified. One reason for this is that foods are no more available for testing once the outbreak is detected. Specifically, this can be the case for foods with a short shelf-life, such as plant foods. Moreover, sometimes the food matrix leads to performance failures of laboratory methods. In such situations, investigational tracing can be the key to outbreak c ...