Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100303:11:34:00
Your study found out it is actually $152 billion. a cost of $1,851 per illness. were you surprised by that? >> it was actually done, the study was done by an economist who used to work for the food and drug administration and used center for disease control data. we were very surprised when he came back with these numbers. the reason that the numbers are so much higher than previous estimates. he looked at the full array of all of food borne illnesses, looked at a few specific i illnesses and also looked at the whole wide array of costs, out-of-pocket expenses, as well as lost work and so on. ...
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