Fun food facts

Somehow i got bored enough to do a little research on what we talked about in class today and i realized that there are so many things that we are vulnerable to. Im actually surprised that there are not more cases than described below in the data. Of course i don't mean to give praise to companies that seem to be doing a good job its more than likely the media covering up things that they really don't want us to know about. In the video today i figured that if only a handful of companies control the meat industry then if one or even two companies get bad press the entire industry could crumble, which in today's economy could ruin it just because someone said something. In business reputation is everything if you have bad press concerning your meat no body will want to buy it.

• more than a million people die from food poisoning each year round the world
  
• the US Food and Drug Administration reckons that between 24 million and 81 million Americans get sick from food poisoning bugs each year - and 10,000 of them die
  
• Campylobacter makes 2 million people sick each year in the US. This bug comes from contaminated chicken and turkey meat. Up to 80 per cent of this type of meat could be contaminated
  
• E. coli comes from contaminated ground beef. It makes 73,000 Americans ill each year
  
• Salmonella (this is the one everyone's heard of) kills 600 people and makes 1,400,000 people sick in the US each year. It comes in contaminated meats and eggs
• Listeria food poisoning is mainly a problem with ready-to-eat foods. In the US, it kills around 500 people each year