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spices top list of imported foods that make us sick Originally
published on Wed March 14, 2012 1:58 pm Disease outbreaks with
imported foods are on the rise, and fish and spices are the
foods most likely to cause problems. It's not that imported
foods are any nastier than home-grown, according to a
presentation today from researchers at the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. It's that we're eating a lot
more of them. "Since the late 1990s the amount of food that's
imported has doubled," says Hannah Gould, an epidemiologist at
the CDC who's been studying imported food and food safety. "The
number of outbreaks has mirrored that."