Food-borne Illnesses in U.S. Cost $152 B Annually

Food-borne Illnesses in U.S. Cost $152 B Annually

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Food-borne illnesses cost the United States an estimated $152 billion each year in health-related expenses, much more than previously thought, a new report contends.

...the 10 riskiest foods are: leafy greens, eggs, tuna, oysters, potatoes, cheese, ice cream, tomatoes, sprouts and berries.

…for several reasons, including an increasingly complex and global food system, outdated food safety laws and the rise of large-scale production and processing methods.

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We don't need chemtrails to make us sick - our food is killing us without any help, thank you very much.

Also note that the $152B in "health effects" include disability, not just "deaths, pain and suffering."

...Every year, an estimated 76 million Americans are sickened by contaminated food and 5,000 of these people die, according to federal statistics.

Although most of these of costs are due to unidentified germs, infections from well-known pathogens play a large role. For example, costs related to campylobacter exceed $18.8 billion annually; costs linked to salmonella are estimated at $14.6 billion; and costs related to listeria are $8.8 billion, according to the report.

These health-related costs include physician services, hospital services, medicines and also quality-of-life losses, such as deaths, pain, suffering and disability.

Interesting - "the majority of food-borne illnesses are caused by produce."

"Food poisoning" used to be caused almost exclusively animal proteins - meat, fish and dairy. But now...

Our world has changed. New disease mutations like salmonella contaminate produce. Unheard of even 10 years ago - salmonella used to only affect meat protein.

The majority of food-borne illnesses are caused by produce, which are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Thirty-nine percent of E. coli outbreaks were due to produce regulated by the FDA, the report said.

Many of the most contaminated foods are regulated by the FDA - an agency under fire from several quarters for not doing its job.

Eskin hopes the report will spur Congress to pass a food-safety bill that with strengthen the FDA's food-safety efforts by giving the agency more authority over the foods it regulates and more money to devote to making the food supply safer.

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reply to post by soficrow

Interesting - "the majority of food-borne illnesses are caused by produce."

The reason it's in the produce is because produce captures everthing from the atmosphere.

Imagine how a head of lettuce grows. The chemtrail fallout is being captured in plants like these, in my opinion


[edit on 4-3-2010 by 911stinks]

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Re: Imagine how a head of lettuce grows...

...The roots suck up assorted antibiotics, other meds and diseases from the animal feces used to fertilize the soil, along with pesticides and herbicides from the runoff and contaminated ground water, not to mention a huge variety of prions, industrial chemicals and more - and then the mix re-assorts inside the plants and the bugs mutate into new diseases that can infect new kingdoms, not just new species...

It's an interesting - and all new - world we have created. Maybe chemtrails have an effect, but the other stuff is more than overwhelming already (biologically speaking).