Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator—This interactive web-based tool allows users to estimate the cost of foodborne disease, using a variety of assumptions about the costs of treating foodborne illness, the value of lost productivity and premature death, and the number of cases of disease. |
Savvy Buyers Spur Food Safety Innovations in Meat Processing—Meat processors face weak incentives to invest in food safety improvements. A tainted hamburger (and any subsequent illness) is not easy to implicate, and a "safer" meat product is not easy to market. So what motivates meat processors to invest in food safety? |