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Article: Gov't: U.S. Food Supply Gets Safer
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- April 19, 2002
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ATLANTA (AP) _ Food poisoning from dangerous bacteria like E. coli
and salmonella has dropped dramatically in the United States in just
six years, suggesting that stepped-up measures to make the food supply
safer are taking hold, the government said Thursday.
Preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
show substantial declines in the rates of illness from six of seven
major types of foodborne bacteria from 1996 to 2001.
The rate of E. coli fell 21 percent, salmonella 15 percent and listeria
35 percent. Shigella was down 35 percent, campylobacter 27 percent
and yersinia 49 percent. Only vibrio _ a germ that shows up in raw
oysters _ ...