Approaches to Controlling Pathogens

Approximately 48 million people get sick and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Salmonella is responsible for an estimated 1,029,000 cases of foodborne illness in the United States each year; Clostridium perfringens, 966,000; Campylobacter jejuni, 845,000; Staphylococcus aureus, 241,000; Escherichia coli, including Shiga toxin–producing E. coli (ST…