In any given two-week period, 85% of all Americans will eat at least one meal outside the home. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), foodborne illness causes 76 million sicknesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths each year.
Our Environmental Health professionals inspect about 2,000 food service establishments for a 15-county area through a contract with the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals. In 1999, this area experienced 26 foodborne illness events, which involved 333 people. Depending upon the amount and type of food preparation within a facility, Environmental Health conducts one to three inspections per year for every food operation within our 15-county area
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