Dive Summary:
- According to new statistics from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), contaminated food makes 48 million Americans sick each year and costs a staggering $77 billion.
- The amount of foodborne illnesses nearly doubled from last year, bringing the number to 1753 people in the last 21 months who have been made sick by recalled foods, a preventable situation according to the experts.
- With the Obama administration's new food safety initiative set to combat these glaring problems, the researchers expect things to get better, but are still calling for even more stringent regulations.
From the article:
Related news: FDA updates Reportable Food Registry (RFR) in effort to track safety trendsImports not to blame for food incident report increase - FSAReport highlights success of EU food safety controlsImports 'safer' thinks China: ReportScathing government report questions FDA food recall data reliabilityContaminated food makes 48 million Americans sick every year and costs over $77bn in aggregated economic costs, according to a US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) report. They said food recalls are on the rise and called the US food safety system 'broken'.In the US over the...
