Groups urge FDA changes to boost U.S. food safety

Michelle Larkin of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said about one in four Americans, or 76 million people, get sick from foodborne illnesses each year, more than 300,000 are hospitalized and 500,000 die.

OOPS!

CDC data reports 5,000 deaths per year from foodborne illness each year NOT 500,000

A.L.

Yes. We corrected: GBU Editor

A customer shops for groceries in Arvada, Colorado, February 24, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

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Salmonella outbreak sickens 388 across US- CDC

Salmonella-contaminated dry pet food sickened at least 79 people, including many young children, in October and November.

Your story says pet food sickened people. Is this for real? Or is it a blooper? May I be first to declare it!

M.E.

Several readers noticed this. Yes, it’s for real. People handled the contaminated food, and got salmonella: GBU Editor

Veterinarian expert Svetlana Holoshnya of St.Petersburg’s region
laboratory holds up a test-tube with Salmonella bacteria obtained from
U.S. poultry March 12, 2002. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

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