Two months ago, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revised estimates of foodborne illness in the United States, plenty of people tried to put a positive spin on the long-awaited analysis.
Even…
Continue Reading Is Food Safer? NEJM Tells the Rest of the Story
I’ve always been a numbers guy. I am not talking about mathematics, but just plain numbers.
I do still wake up at night occasionally thinking I have a college algebra or calculus test in…
Wednesday’s release of the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates on foodborne illness in the U.S., which are significantly lower than the oft-cited decade-old estimates, left many in the food policy community wondering…
Continue Reading Why now? Was CDC’s Timing on Estimates Political?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new, lower estimate of the overall public health burden of foodborne illness in the United States. CDC now says food poisoning sickens 1 in 6…
Continue Reading New Estimates Lower Incidence of Food Poisoning
Seventy-six million people Americans sick with foodborne illness, 323,000 hospitalizations, 5,200 deaths.
Those grim numbers have been bandied about the Internet, the popular media, and more recently around congressional hearing rooms – like unemployment rates…
