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Approximately how many people go to the hospital for food poisoning

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2,710,042 People

41.3 poison exposures in children younger than 6 years

1 poison exposure reported to U.S. poison control centers every 14.6 seconds.
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128,000 people get hospitalized each year in the United States.

An estimate of Foodborne Illness which is also referred to food poisioning. As calculated officially an estimation of 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are admitted to the hospital, and 3,000 die each year in the United States. The problem of higher than 500,000 claims of food poisoning of different types per year.

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