Re: Cutting boards and vegetarians | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Kay Argyle (argylemines.utah.edu) | |
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:20:26 -0700 (MST) |
> What is the risk of getting food poisoning from careless food > preparation at home? How does it compare to being struck by lightning? 100 deaths by lightening vs. 2,700 deaths from food poisoning annually in the U.S. (sources for these figures are given below). So possibly twenty-five times as dangerous, if you just count deaths. I didn't find any statistics on how many people survive being struck by lightening, but going by the USDA figures there are 1,000 cases of food poisoning for every death. If there are 3 million nonfatal cases of food poisoning in the U.S. annually, out of a population of 250 million, that means 1 out of every 100 people _every year_. Website URLs follow each quote below. "From the same source (1991 figures of National Safety Council), here is the table of accidental deaths in the US: Accident cause Mortality rate per 100,000 people ------------------------------------------------------------- Automobiles 18.6 Home accidents 8.6 Falls 5.0 Poisoning 2.6 Fires 1.7 Suffocation 1.3 Hunting (among participants) 0.85 Lightning 0.04 Insect stings 0.02 Hunting (among non-participants) 0.001" http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~powlesla/personal/hunting/text/safety.txt Estimated 3 to 7 million food poisoning cases in the U.S. in 1993. Estimated 2,695 to 8,587 deaths. (USDA figures) (http://www.foodtechsource.com/emag/001/numbers.htm) "The cost of food poisoning to the nation, based on direct medical expenses, lost wages, and productivity, and industry loss of tainted food products, is estimated at $1 billion to $10 billion annually." U.S. FDA, http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/lesson4.html "Nationwide: #1 - Fire; #2 - Floods; #3 - Lightening; #4 - Tornadoes. Nationwide in 1988, there were 552,5000 residential fires which killed 5,065 people." [hazardous causes of death] http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/disaster/handbook/answ7.html "Between 100 and 300 people are killed by lightening each year in the United States." http://earthspace.net/~kmiles/dln/8-95/stormy.html Kay Argyle Wasatch Commons
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