| All food naturally contains bacteria. Whether this food | | | | U.S. because of these diseases caused from food |
| is in your kitchen at home, or in a restaurant kitchen, | | | | born bacteria. |
| improper handling can easily lead to making you sick | | | | According to public health and food safety experts, |
| when you eat it. | | | | each year millions of illnesses in this country can be |
| Here in the United States we have some of the | | | | traced to food borne bacteria. While the likelihood of |
| strictest laws in the world that regulate what we eat | | | | serious complications is unknown, the Food and Drug |
| and drink. You would think these laws would protect us | | | | Administration estimates that two to three percent of |
| from the infectious diseases that trouble less | | | | all food borne illnesses lead to secondary long-term |
| developed countries, and they do. | | | | illnesses. |
| But almost 200,000 people still die every year in the | | | | |