PulseNet saves lives and money by reducing foodborne illness
A national network of public health laboratories prevents an estimated 270,000 cases of food poisoning and saves half a billion dollars every year, according to a study released today.
March 15, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: billion-dollars, diet, estimated-270, every-year, food-poisoning, national-network, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, public-health, study-released
Foodborne diseases kill 125,000 children a year
Foodborne disease affects 1 in 10 people worldwide every year, killing 420,000 and causing 33 million lost days of productivity. Children under 5 years are particularly affected.
December 4, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: disease-affects, every-year, killing-420, million-lost, on call diets, oncalldiets, particularly-affected, people-worldwide
1,300 babies each year saved from serious birth defects of brain and spine by folic acid
Fortifying grain foods with the B vitamin folic acid has saved about 1,300 babies every year from being born with serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs)…
January 19, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 300-babies, brain, every-year, from-being, grain-foods, known-as-neural, neural-tube, nutritional counseling, pregnancy / obstetrics, serious-birth, the-brain, vitamin-folic
