On 24/02/2020 14:58, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Robin wrote:
On 24/02/2020 13:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Seems 1 in 6 will get food poisoning in the US each year. In the UK,
it is 1 in 66.

Yet we want to import cheap food from the US. Always knew Brexiteers
had a death wish.


It would of course help to know what station and at roughly what time so
we could check for ourselves exactly what was said and - crucially - by
whom.

In the meantime that seems a repeat of the claim last year on which

https://fullfact.org/health/food-poisoning-US-UK/

concluded

"These estimates are both correct based on government figures, but
they€˜re not comparable due to differences in methodology and how the
data was collected."

For every single 'fact' anywhere, there will be an 'expert' who disagrees
with it.


But if you told us where and when you heard it we could judge for
ourselves the authority you chose to report. As it stands we don't know
if it was any more than - say - a known hard activist seeking to recycle
old "fake news" to damage HMG.

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Robin
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