Health Outcomes of Foodborn Pathogens

After reading the article from the center for foodborne illness, I found that there are a lot of long-term health outcomes that many people are unaware of when it comes to their food.  As Tanya Roberts says, "foodborne illness must be recongnized as a serious public health issue if we want to make meaninful progress in reducing sickness, injury,, and death associated with foodbourne disease."  Within the rest of the article they discuss their reasearch on the health outcomes for five foodbourne pathogens and the various symptoms; I found that to be alarming.  Many of the outbreaks are from common food products like ground beef, peppers, peanut butter etc.  Since the increase in population and a food supply that is global, in 2008 the government added an oversight to food safety becacause of the risks involved with the publics health.  Towards the end, they urge to have more research and focus on the prevention of long term health outcomes.  That brings me to our quesiton, are consumer's really being protected from the food industry, and what it comes down to is the consumer;s roll in the matter and what they choose to eat.