Typical - we focus on the obvious - acute illness - and we IGNORE the chronic disease that is where the greater health issue lies - obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc.

Not even the antibiotics issue is raised.

Science has a lot to answer for and why did not the NYT add this missing factor in the article - they could have - it was the first thing that came to my mind - but they too can only see what is in front of their nose.

No wonder we are all so ignorant!

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com

In a pair of research reports made public on Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that about 48 million people a year get sick from tainted food, down from the previous, often-cited estimate of 76 million. The number of deaths estimated to come from food poisoning also went down, to about 3,000 a year from 5,000.

The revision means that one in six Americans gets sick each year from tainted food, not one in four, as the old study, conducted in 1999, projected.

But that does not mean that food poisoning is declining or that farms and factories are producing safer food. Instead, officials said, the government’s researchers are just getting better at calculating how much foodborne illness is out there. Read more at www.nytimes.com