Personal Injury Law

Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella Client, David Krieger Profiled in USA Today

By Bill Marler

Elizabeth Weise of USA Today again shows how the Nation's Paper does a great job of covering Food Safety issues. According to her story this morning, 'Food-borne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion a year, a tab that works out to an average cost of $1,850 each time someone gets sick from food, a report by a former Food and Drug Administration economist says.'  "A lot of people don't realize how expensive food-borne illnesses are," says Robert Scharff, a former FDA regulatory economist and now a professor of consumer science at Ohio State University. "It's important for the public to understand the size of this problem."

Full post as published by Marler Blog on March 03, 2010 (boomark / email).