Dispatch: Food Poisoning Declines

By ACSH Staff — Apr 16, 2010
Reuters reports, “Cases of six common food poisoning agents have dropped sharply since the U.S. government started to monitor them closely in the 1990s, [CDC] officials reported on Thursday.” “Plaintiffs’ lawyers are scrambling because they don’t know what to do with this,” says Stier. “They’ve been trying to make the case that food poisoning is a bigger and bigger problem in the U.S., when it fact it has declined.”

Reuters reports, “Cases of six common food poisoning agents have dropped sharply since the U.S. government started to monitor them closely in the 1990s, [CDC] officials reported on Thursday.”

“Plaintiffs’ lawyers are scrambling because they don’t know what to do with this,” says Stier. “They’ve been trying to make the case that food poisoning is a bigger and bigger problem in the U.S., when it fact it has declined.”

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