Food safety serious U.S. health problem: ; Getting sick from eating may be more likely today than 50 years ago

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Food safety serious U.S. health problem: ; Getting sick from eating may be more likely today than 50 years ago

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March 18, 2001 | Greg Winter | Copyright

Tapeworm and botulism have been all but eradicated in this country, and new technologies from freeze-drying to irradiation have been developed to make food safer. But because of changing eating habits and more choices of foods, Americans may be more likely to get sick from what they eat today than they were half a century ago. The frequency of serious gastrointestinal illness, a common gauge of food poisoning, is 34 percent above what it was in 1948, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Not all scientists agree with that conclusion - some say food poisoning is as common as in the immediate postwar years, but not necessarily more so - yet there is no doubt about the scale of the problem. …

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