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Making Sense of Recent Cost-of-Foodborne-Illness Estimates

  • EIB-118

Overview

Three recent studies provide cost-of-foodborne-illness estimates ranging from $14.1 billion to $152 billion. This report shows that differences in these estimates are largely due to the number of diseases considered, the valuation methods used, and uncertainty about disease incidence estimates.

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