23-Nov-2012 00:38 How

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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AUDIO: How universal credit will work :: Welfare rights advisor Gary Vaux told 5 live's Wake Up To Money how the universal credit benefit system would work.
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Viewpoint: How Sony slipped back :: How Sony missed out on growing as big as Amazon and Google
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VIDEO: How beer sales reflect global economy :: SABMiller, the world's second-biggest brewer, met expectations with a 12% rise in first-half profit, and said strong growth in Africa and Latin America should continue.
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VIDEO: How to fix the banks, and what next? :: Jeremy Paxman asks how the banks could be fixed, and what might be the next crisis to hit the financial industry.
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Remembering the coffee pot webcam :: How caffeine addiction led to the world's first webcam
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Coal resurgence calls undermine clean energy commitments :: How the world fell back in love with coal
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How Much Inequality Is Needed to Support a Strong Economy? :: There's plenty of self-interest on display in the debate on inequality, but behavioral and experimental economic studies and other inquiries into the topic show that there's more to the issue than meets the eye.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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