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For the first time, researchers have linked food-borne illnesses to the foods that most often carry them, and ranked them according to their economic impact. They discovered that of the food pathogens that cost society the most money, half are found in meat products.
The food and food contaminant combination that causes the most economic damage is campylobacter in poultry. Campylobacter sickens more than 600,000 people and costs the U.S. $1.3 billion a year. In second place is toxoplasma in pork, which costs an estimated $1.2 billion a year.