CSPI report: Leafy greens were rated the riskiest food

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Center for Science in the Public Interest report: http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/06/news/companies/riskiest_foods/index.htm?postversion=2009100609"Over the last 20 years, leafy greens caused 363 outbreaks, resulting in 13,568 reported illnesses... 'Millions of consumers are being made ill, hundreds of thousands hospitalized and thousands are dying each year from preventable foodborne illnesses,' the study said."poster's note: of course, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases don't count as "preventable foodborne illnesses" per this study. WTF? Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.

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the study is concerning outbreaks of illnesses due to food contamination. a more exhaustive study, i'm sure, would encompass other reasons which many are behavior oriented. another link to the same study:http://finance./news/Dangerous-foods-list-includes-cnnm-1143667599.html?x=0what i really wish they had addressed was how lettuce and spinach get contaminated, which we know is due to the run off from livestock adjacent or nearby to crop lands.overall, the study in question is fairly questionable. ie: ice cream [i'm not defending it in anyway] gets a bad wrap mostly from one isolated incident from 15 years, though it was pretty wide spread when it happened, but hardly a pattern or a reason to be concerned about ice cream [yes, there are many other reasons to be concerned about ice

cream]brian--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Mitch Cohen <redbeerd wrote:Mitch Cohen <redbeerd CSPI report: Leafy greens were rated the riskiest food Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 8:46 AM

 

 

 

Center for Science in the Public Interest report: http://money. cnn.com/2009/ 10/06/news/ companies/ riskiest_ foods/index. htm?postversion= 2009100609"Over the last 20 years, leafy greens caused 363 outbreaks, resulting in 13,568 reported illnesses... 'Millions of consumers are

being made ill, hundreds of thousands hospitalized and thousands are dying each year from preventable foodborne illnesses,' the study said."poster's note: of course, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases don't count as "preventable foodborne illnesses" per this study. WTF? Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.