Tainted food and water kill surprising number worldwide: WHO

Full story: National Post

While tainted food and the illnesses it can cause have made headlines in the United States and Canada in recent years, the same problems go undetected in developing nations' food supplies.

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BananaJelly

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1.2 million sounds like a big number. What's the actual population? But what does it mean? What's the percentage? What are the death tolls in the U.S. due to food? A lot of contaminated foods are due to poor handling or storage, which implies poor health and food policies. Science is only part of the answer.

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