National report card on food safety.

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The nation's food safety grades are out and the results are mixed. The annual report card from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. shows that foodborne infections continue to be an important public health problem in the U.S.

The rate of salmonella infections decreased by about nine percent in 2013 compared with the previous three years, bringing it to the rate last observed in the 2006-08 baseline period. However, campylobacter infections, often linked to dairy products and chicken, have risen 13% since 2006-08. Vibrio infections, connected with eating raw shellfish, were at the highest level observed since active tracking began in 1996, but rates of infections caused by Vibrio vulnificus, the most severe species, have remained steady.

In 2013, there were more than 19,000...

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