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To the Editor: There is a growing need for an honest analysis of what we do and do not know about emerging infections such as enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and for cost-effective incentives to produce a safe food supply. Despite impressive progress in some areas (such as reductions in salmonella and listeria infections since the late 1980s^1,2), the report by Boyce et al. on enterohemorrhagic E. coli infections (Aug. 10 issue),³ which are estimated to account for over 20,000 infections and 250 deaths each year in the United States, raises the question of how best to prevent the potentially serious . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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