Salmonella sensing system: New approach to detecting food contamination enables real-time testing
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
As anyone who has ever consumed bacteria-contaminated food and experienced "food poisoning" can tell you, it's a miserable experience. Yet it's an all-too-common one, with foodborne illnesses making 1 in 6 Americans—or 48 million people—sick each year. Of these people sickened, 128,000 end up in the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 3,000 die.