Flawed Food Inspections Are Putting You at Risk
Filed under: Health Care, Food, Food & Drink
We’ve all heard about illnesses and deaths caused by recent Salmonella and Listeria outbreaks, but how concerned should the average consumer really be?
According to a recent estimate at the Centers for Disease Control, food-borne illnesses sicken more than 15% of Americans every year, as well as causing approximately 3,000 deaths and 128,000 hospitalizations. On the whole, these illnesses cost Americans over $77 billion annually.
And these numbers aren’t declining. As of September 2012, the…
Flawed Food Inspections Are Putting You at Risk originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-10-29T02:45:00Z.
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