“Fatal Food”

Thomas Hargrove of Scripps Howard News Service, along with contributions from Sruthi Kunnel and Lee Bowman, completed an investigation into food-borne illness outbreak reports made to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Medical officials in Kentucky have already ordered reform’s to the state’s disease reporting process as a result of this investigation. Links to the stories and data:

• A Russian roulette of food poisoning in American states
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  Food safety can depend on the state you live in

• Who dies from food illness
• Findings from study of food sickness outbreaks
• Methods for the Scripps food disease story
• A nasty little list of food diseases
• Food-borne illness cases by state
• Link to data used in story