{"id":378,"date":"2012-10-16T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2012-11-06T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:27:56","slug":"thousands-of-americans-die-every-year-from-food-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/thousands-of-americans-die-every-year-from-food-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Americans Die Every Year From Food Poisoning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to a new report featured as the cover story of the November 2012 issue of &#8220;Bloomberg Markets,&#8221; Americans are at serious risk of personal injury and even death from food poisoning.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mgyIoDq0TDc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, in 2011 alone, 48.7 million Americans contracted a foodborne illness. These illnesses resulted in 127,839 hospitalizations and 3,037 wrongful deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of food market regulations is apparently mostly to blame, and the US Food and Drug Administration (&#8220;FDA&#8221;) simply does not have the resources to monitor the safety of all food sold in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the FDA outsources many of its inspection responsibilities to private agencies, which themselves are subject to little, if any, government oversight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experts say the situation is even worse for imported food, which is rarely subjected to any domestic inspection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you or your loved one has been injured as a result of food poisoning in Massachusetts, please don\u2019t wait to protect all of your legal rights and remedies.\u00a0 Please call our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-food-poisoning-accident-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston, MA food poisoning lawyers<\/a>, Massachusetts personal injury accident attorneys or <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-wrongful-death.php\">Massachusetts wrongful death attorneys<\/a> now at <strong>617-787-3700<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can also email our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-food-poisoning-accident-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Massachusetts food contamination attorneys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-types-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston, MA accident injury attorneys<\/a> and Boston, MA wrongful death lawyers at <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-contact-gilbert-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\">info@gilhoylaw.com<\/a>. \u00a0Contact our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-about-gil-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston, Massachusetts law office<\/a> <strong>24\/7<\/strong> and let our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/\">expert Massachusetts attorneys<\/a> carefully explain your varied legal options to you in a <strong>free and confidential consultation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call 617-787-3700 today. Your needs are our top priority!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report featured as the cover story of the November 2012 issue of &#8220;Bloomberg Markets,&#8221; Americans are at serious risk of personal injury and even death from food poisoning.\u00a0 According to the report, in 2011 alone, 48.7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/thousands-of-americans-die-every-year-from-food-poisoning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,20,28,4,9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}