
“Modernizing this [food safety] system should be an urgent priority of the Obama administration, to reduce outbreaks and illnesses from food and restore consumer confidence,” says Caroline Smith DeWaal, CSPI’s director of food safety.
A data set of foodborne illness has been published by CSPI for the last 10 years, and can be reviewed on CSPI’s website (www.cspinet.org). Each year, according to the federal government, foodborne illness sickens 76 million and kills 5,000 Americans.