1. Who’s Minding the Store? The Current State of Food Safety And How It can be Improved Seattle, Washington April 11, 2008 Barbara Kowalcyk, M.A. Director of Food Safety Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention

2. Barb, Mike, Megan & Kevin Kowalcyk July 2001, Acadia National Park, Maine

3. Kevin Michael Kowalcyk, age 2 1/2 12/10/98 - 8/11/01

4. 76 million Americans are sickened, 325,000 Americans are hospitalized and 5,000 Americans die each year from food-borne illnesses. CDC Estimates Source: Paul S. Mead, et al., Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States, Emerging Infect. Dis. (No. 5) 607, 614 (1999).

5. Foodborne illnesses account for about 1 of every 100 hospitalizations and 1 of every 500 deaths 1. Camplyobacter, Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes and Toxoplasma gondii cause an estimated $6.9 billion in medical costs, lost productivity and premature deaths 2 EACH YEAR! Costs of Foodborne Illness 1 Buzby, Frenzen,and Rasco. Food and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA. Agricultural Economic Report No. 799: Product Liability and Microbial Foodborne Illness. 2 Buzby. Food and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA. Children and Microbial Foodborne Illness. Food Review, Vol 24, Issue 2. This represents only a fraction of the total costs due to foodborne illness and does not include pain and suffering, which is difficult to quantify, and other costs, such as public health expenditures, that are often overlooked.

6. According to the Food and Drug Administration, an estimated 2 to 3 percent of foodborne illness victims develop secondary long-term medical complications. That’s 1.5 million lingering health problems each year. Source: Frezen. Economic Research Service, USDA. The Economics of Food, Farming, National Resources and Rural America, www.ers.usda.gov More Than Just a Stomach Ache

7. Salmonella is a leading predictors for reactive arthritis. Camplyobacter is a leading cause of Guillian-Barre Syndrome. Listeria monocytogenes kills over 1/3 of its perinatal victims. One-third of HUS survivors will suffer life-long medical problems. HUS caused by E. coli O157:H7 and other shiga-toxin producing foodborne pathogens is leading cause of acute kidney failure in children in the U.S. Foodborne Illness Health Impacts

8. The Real Cost of Foodborne Illness

9. Barb, Mike, Megan, Lara & Christopher Kowalcyk June 2006

10. Who’s Minding the Store? The Current State of Food Safety And How It can be Improved Seattle, Washington April 11, 2008