Patent ID: 7069233

Claim:
A method for identification of elevated sales of predetermined products indicative of at least one public health condition, comprising the steps of: providing a categorization schedule to at least one party selling at least one of said predetermined products, said schedule incorporating product identifiers corresponding to said predetermined products, each of said product identifiers being associated with at least one of a plurality of aggregation categories related to at least one ingredient contained in said corresponding one of said predetermined products, wherein said at least one party uses said categorization schedule to generate information that associates sales of at least one of said predetermined products by said party with the contents of at least one of said plurality of aggregation categories; receiving said aggregation category content information from said at least one party; utilizing said aggregation category content information to populate at least one of a plurality of analytical categories indicative of a health condition; determining an alert threshold for said at least one of said plurality of analytical categories; detecting when said alert threshold for said at least one of said plurality of analytical categories is exceeded; and generating, in response to said detecting, a notification that said alert threshold was exceeded.