Major food suppliers and stores recalled eggs in 2010 and peanut butter in 2009 were mostly due to salmonella bacteria. According to data from America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, outbreaks due to salmonella bacteria totaled 28% of deaths and 35% of hospitalizations in recent years, reported webmd.com.
Today there were one in six Americans gets sick due to food poisoning with estimated 128,000 people went to hospital and about 3,000 people died every year. Compared to ten years ago (1999), there were one in four Americans got sick due to tainted food. Citing data from CDC, webmd.com reported that in 1999 there were 325,000 people went to hospital and 5,000 people died due to outbreaks.
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