Personal Injury Law

CSPI Report Card for State Detection, Investigation and Reporting on Foodborne Outbreaks

By Bill Marler, Esq.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), released today a nationwide report card grading the 50 states and the District of Columbia on how well they detect, investigate, and report outbreaks of foodborne illness. The report shows that there is some room for improvement. CSPI assigned a letter grade and created an outbreak profile for each state.

A's: Oregon, Minnesota, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, Washington, and Wyoming.

B's: Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont.

C's: Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.

D's: Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.

F's: Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.

Now, let's look are resources to get every State and D.C. to an A.

Full post as published by Marler Blog on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).