Which Foods Make Americans Ill? Whether Chicken Or Salad, Food Safety At Home Is Key To Avoiding Illness, Says Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Jesse M. Switzer

JOUR 536 – Digital, Social and Mass Media Public Relations

Media Deconstruct #1: Home Food Safety

01.30.13

            The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), as part of its Home Food Safety program has distributed a press release to PR Newswire to alert the media that a study investigating the cause of food poisoning cases in the U.S. was recently published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  The Home Food Safety program – a collaboration between AND and the publically held company, ConAgra Foods – promotes the idea that safe food handling is more important to American’s diets than even what foods they choose to eat.  AND claims that the findings of the CDC study support this notion and points to the fact that “healthy” options such as salad greens actually caused the most food related illnesses in the country while meat, specifically contaminated poultry, resulted in the most deaths.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/which-foods-make-americans-ill-whether-chicken-or-salad-food-safety-at-home-is-key-to-avoiding-illness-says-academy-of-nutrition-and-dietetics-189247481.html

http://news.yahoo.com/foods-americans-ill-whether-chicken-salad-food-safety-201400998.html

http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/01/31/4585135/which-foods-make-americans-ill.html