| - RANDOM FACTS Food poisoning costs the U.S. alone over $77 billion, every year - almost twice the annual cost of the common cold.
- RANDOM FACTS Salmonella is responsible for 35% of food illness hospitalizations, and 28% of food illness deaths.
- RANDOM FACTS The rate of infections linked to foodborne salmonella, which causes the most illnesses and deaths, rose 10 percent from 2006 to 2010.
- RANDOM FACTS Food poisoning sickens 48 million Americans a year, with 128,000 hospitalized and 3,000 killed.
- RANDOM FACTS Many victims of contaminated food are those with under-developed or weakened immune systems, such as children and the elderly.
- RANDOM FACTS If food borne illness was decreased by just 1% it would keep about half a million people from getting sick from the foods they eat.
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