TUCKER, Ga. — Poultry accounts for approximately 24 percent (18 percent from chicken and 6 percent from turkeys) of foodborne illnesses, as reported in the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC).
The IFSAC is a cooperation between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), that combined interagency data to analyze trends in foodborne illnesses.
Per the CDC, salmonella caused approximately 16.3 illnesses per 100,000 in 2022 — a rate that has remained largely unchanged since 1996. The. . .