how many people are affected by food borne illness each year
It is estimated that each year in the UK: around a million people suffer a foodborne illness around 20,000 people receive hospital treatment due to foodborne illness there are around 500 deaths caused by foodborne illness it costs us nearly Â£1.5 billion2 How do we get foodborne diseases? Foodborne diseases can originate from a wide variety of different foods and be caused by many different pathogenic organisms (e.g. bacteria or viruses) that have contaminated them at some part of the food chain, between farm and fork.