Americans Are More Insecure About their Food | Timi Gustafson RD - seattlepi.com

Americans Are More Insecure About their Food | Timi Gustafson RD - seattlepi.com

... In terms of food safety, over 60 percent of Americans think that foods produced in the U.S. are safer than imported ones. But that trust is limited nowadays. According to a survey conducted by Consumers Union, a non-profit advocacy group and publisher of “Consumer Reports,” 80 percent of respondents agreed that Congress should grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greater powers over food manufacturers to enforce recalls of unsafe foods.

Based on data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 5,000 Americans die from food poisoning every year. Almost 80 million get sick and approximately 325,000 end up in the hospital. The costs for treating food-borne illnesses in the U.S. are over $150 billion a year...