Microbes or chemical contaminants may enter the food chain at any point from farm to fork, causing foodborne illnesses. Different factors such as an individual's susceptibility and a microbe’s ...

Food poisoning, also known as foodborne illness, is caused by the contamination of food by ... Viruses account for around a third of food poisoning cases, while certain parasites, fungi, and natural ...

Researchers from the CDC and Colorado School of Public Health estimate that seven major pathogens caused 9.9 million ...

About 800 foodborne illness outbreaks occur in the United States every year, sickening more than 15,000 people, with one of the most frequent causes of ...

New research shows there were 9.9 million domestically acquired foodborne illnesses in the United States in 2019. The most recent data available before this was published in 2011. By estimating ...

Bacterial foodborne outbreaks in the U.S. increased while viral outbreaks declined between 2014 and 2022, with environmental ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights growing concerns about foodborne illness in the United States. According to the CDC, nearly 10 million people became ...