Foodborne illness costs $77 billion a year in US

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently revised their estimates for the annual number of foodborne illnesses; 48 million Americans suffer from domestically acquired foodborne illness associated with 31 identified pathogens and a broad category of unspecified agents.

 

Economic burden from health losses due to foodborne illness in the United States Journal of Food Protection®, Volume 75, Number 1, January 2012 , pp. 123-131(9) Scharff, Robert L.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iafp/jfp/2012/00000075/00000001/art00018

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