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Article: U.S. food supply is getting safer, figures suggest; Tougher regulations:Cases of dangerous bacteria have dropped
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- 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, rose, climbing 83 percent.
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