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A recent report from the USA describes the real and surprisingly high cost of foodstuff related illness. At more than one hundred and fifty billion US Dollars per year, the cost is much higher that previously estimated.

Sandra Eskin - Director of Food Safety at Washington’s Pew Charitable Trust informed a recent press conference.

These health-related costs include doctor services, hospital services, medicines and in addition quality-of-life losses, such as death, pain, suffering and disability.

Reports Business Week

A 92 year old gentleman from Port Orange in Florida, who crashed his car into the side of a restaurant suffering minor injuries in the process, got out and ate breakfast at the restaurant. Accident investigators speculate that he hit the gas pedal instead of the break!

Source: www. wesh.com/news/22157235/detail.html

Having crashed his auto into the wall of the Biscuits N Gravy restaurant, Charles Pierce, 92 then ate his breakfast in the restaurant. Investigators think he mistook the accelerator pedal for the break!

From: www. wesh.com/news/22157235/detail.html

The New York Times has reported that the calorie info displayed on restaurant menus or frozen meal packets is sometimes significantly wrong. Researchers checked data from packets from ten food markets and twenty nine fast-food restaurant menus.

Source: www. nytimes.com

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