The statistics are enough to make people lose their appetites: There are 48 million cases of foodborne illness in the USA every year, with one in six Americans getting sick because of something they ate, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While some of these outbreaks cause temporary misery, food poisoning also causes 3,000 deaths and 125,000 hospitalizations each year at a cost of $14.1 billion, according to the CDC. People have adopted a number of strategies to try to protect themselves from food poisoning, from "eating local" to giving up meat entirely. Yet food-safety experts say that many of these practices aren't grounded in science, and they may offer little to no protection.
This week, food safety experts to try to separate food-safety fact from fiction.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week:
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber (US author, cartoonist,
humorist, & satirist, 1894 - 1961)
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