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Nation's Food Safety Not Improving, According to Latest CDC [Centers for Disease Control] Report That Shows No Drop in Food Poisoning Cases." ... "Efforts to improve U.S. [United States] food safety have not yet borne fruit, a new CDC report shows." ... "The CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, called FoodNet, began tracking cases of food-borne illnesses in 1996 in 10 U.S. states. The idea is to track infection trends for the 10 most important causes of food poisoning." ... "The 2007 FoodNet numbers are here." ... "... [T]here has been no significant improvement since 2004. Compared with 2004-2006, there's been no real decline in cases of food-borne disease caused by campylobacter, listeria, salmonella, shigella, E. coli, vibrio, or yersinia bacteria." ... "Cases of infection with the waterborne parasite cryptosporidium went up...[.]" ... "2007 was also a year in which there were several widespread outbreaks of salmonella infection, including outbreaks from contaminated peanut butter, frozen pot pies, puffed vegetable snacks, and live pet turtles."

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