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On the recordDecember 19, 2010
Think about all the sources of food we get in this country. And the diverse places they come from and, yet only 34 people get a staph poisoning or E. coli non-toxigenic poisoning or a salmonella poisoning or a ursinia poisoning or a shigella poisoning in a year. So this is the incidence of illness.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Senator Coburn discusses the low incidence of food-borne illnesses in the context of the Food Safety Bill.

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