Each year, foodborne illnesses and diseases cause thousands of Americans to become sick, hospitalized, or even die. The most alarming side to these statistics is that the majority of food-related sicknesses are preventable.
Food often becomes contaminated through careless mistakes, such as forgetting to wash your hands or the improper storage of food items. If restaurant chefs, catering staff, and home cooks all made a few small changes, lives could be spared from these devastating illnesses. Let's crunch the numbers together on foodborne problems.
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