Health cost of foodborne illness staggering
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Originally posted on March 3, 2010 by CNN.com
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Health cost of foodborne illness
staggering
By Stephanie Smith
CNN Medical Producer
The term “foodborne illness” is relatively new. It was coined over the past few decades. Yet humans have been infected by cryptic-sounding pathogens like Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Cyclospora cayetanensis for millennia.”The first description that we have of symptoms associated E. coli 0157 infection goes all the way back to the Bible,” said Mansour Samadpour, a microbiologist and food scientist at the University of Washington. “These are not new bacteria by any stretch of the imagination. What is new is our proclivity for quantifying how we co-exist with these gnarly pathogens.
A new report by the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University estimates that the health-related cost of foodborne illness in the U.S. at $152 billion per year (see state by state breakdown from the group Make Our Food Safe here).
As it turns out, $152 billion is nothing to scoff at.
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