The Impact on Health Around the World
The World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations agency that focuses on international public health, documented in the past decade on every continent serious outbreaks of food borne illnesses.
Globally, one billion cases annually and two million deaths in children under five years old.
In industrialized countries, up to ten percent of the population may suffer annually from food borne illness.
Every year in the United States alone, 76 million people suffer a food borne illness; five thousand die