date:Jun 26, 2015
US - A consumer watchdog body in the US has called on authorities to step up reporting of outbreaks of food-borne illness and improve measures to counter the threat.
A 10 year study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest shows that the number of outbreaks of food-borne illness that were solved by identifying the contaminated food and the source of the contamination fell from 41 per cent in 2003 to 29 per cent in 2012.
The report, All Over the Map a 10-Year Review of State Outbreak Re