Dispatch: Food Poisoning Declines By Curtis Porter 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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