CDC shows lower count on food illnesses

Since 1999, the CDC has listed the number of cases of foodborne illnesses in the USA each year as 76 million, with 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths — numbers the food industry had at times disputed. Now, after almost a decade of work, the CDC is releasing new estimates and they're 37% lower — 47.8 million cases of foodborne illness, 127,000 hospitalizations and 3,030 deaths.