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US made little progress on food safety in 2008-CDC
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 04 - 2009


Efforts to improve food safety
in the United States "plateaued" in 2008, exposing the need for
an overhaul of the nation's food safety system, Reuters quoted
government health officials as saying today.
Despite efforts to improve food safety in recent years, the
number of foodborne infections remained steady in 2008 compared
with the past three years, suggesting fundamental problems are
not being solved.
"Progress has plateaued. This indicates to us that further
measures are needed to prevent more foodborne illness," Dr.
Robert Tauxe of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention told reporters in a telephone briefing.
Overall, CDC identified 18,499 laboratory-confirmed cases
of food poisoning in 2008 using FoodNet, a tracking system that
looks at foodborne illness in 10 states, covering about 46
million people or 15 percent of the U.S. population.
Salmonella infections were the most commonly diagnosed and
reported, and their numbers were essentially unchanged compared
with data from 2005-2007.
The 2008 findings represent just a portion of the
Salmonella Typhimurium infections caused by tainted peanuts and
peanut products processed by the now bankrupt Peanut Corp of
America, which has led to the biggest food recall in U.S.
history.
The outbreak, which began in September, forced the recall
of more than 3,200 products and sickened more than 680 people
in 46 states, perhaps killing nine. A series of other incidents
involving pistachios, lettuce, peppers and spinach have eroded
public confidence in food safety and renewed calls for change.
The CDC estimates that each year 76 million Americans get
food poisoning, more than 300,000 are sick enough to be
hospitalized and 5,000 die.


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