Food Safety Hazards

  • Only a small percentage of actual foodborn illness cases ever get reported

  • CDC estimates 76 million illnesses annually

  • Result in approximately 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths

  • Estimated 14 million illnesses and 1,800 deaths are caused by known pathogens:

- Salmonella
- Listeria
- Toxoplasma

  • Unknown agents account for the remaining 62 million illnesses

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