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Restaurants not legally required to report cases of food poisoning
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Copyright: KTVU / Cox Media Group
April 27, 2012
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Restaurant patrons might think that an establishment would be required to notify public health officials if diners get sick after eating their food, but currently the California Department of Public Health only encourages restaurants to report such instances.
Some Bay Area residents told KTVU they feel this lack of a legal requirement presents a gap in food safety.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3,000 people in the U.S. die from
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Posted by Jenna Berlin on 4/27/12 at 2:43 AM EST
Great article! Thanks for sharing!
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Posted by Keith Langdon on 4/28/12 at 7:26 AM EST
Roughly 935,400,000 meal eaten per day. = 341,421,000,000 meals eaten per year in the US.
How many of these cases are actually from restaurants?
How many calls have you fielded in the last year? 5 years, 10 years. I can count on 1 hand the number of calls I have received in the last 10 years. The last two calls went something like: My _____ and I both ate in your restaurant and within an hour after we left, we were both throwing up. The sky is not falling and we probably have the safest food and water on the planet in this country. I won't say it is perfect, but perfect is not acheivable. Someone, somewhere is inevitbaly going to screw up.
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