Food & Water Watch – a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food: More Foul Fowl – An Updated Analysis of Salmonella Contamination in Broiler Chickens, March 2008: “The bacteria Salmonella is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States with nearly a million cases of salmonellosis attributed annually to meat and poultry consumption. Of these, more than 14,000 of the victims are hospitalized and more than 400 die. The estimated total annual cost of all cases, foodborne and otherwise, of salmonellosis is about $2.46 billion (in 2006 dollars). Concern about the potential for pathogens, including Salmonella, to become resistant to antibiotics also is increasing. Infections caused by antibiotic–resistant bacteria are more frequently associated with illness and death than those caused by bacteria that are not resistant.”