NEW YORK -- A government study has fingered leafy green
vegetables as the leading source of food poisoning illnesses.
However, the most food-related deaths were from contaminated
chicken and other poultry. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention released the study Tuesday. It's based on an analysis
of food poisoning cases from 1998 through 2008. It's the
agency's most comprehensive attempt to identify which foods most
often carry germs that make us sick. The CDC estimates roughly 1
in 6 Americans -- or 48 million people -- gets sick from food
poisoning each year. That includes 128,000 hospitalization and
3,000 deaths.