Diseases Active Surveillance Network – FoodNet – that monitors foodborne disease in 10 states with the help of the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.
According to the report, there were 17,883 confirmed cases of foodborne infections in 2007. Salmonella was by far the leader of all foodborne infections with an incidence rate of 14.92 per 100,000 people. Second were campylobacter infections with an incidence rate of 12.79 per 100,000 people, while shigella infections came third with an incidence rate of 6.26 per 100,000 people.