Food illnesses decline, CDC reports
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_he_me/safer_food"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060930/capt.b174e777012a46ab9305187ba3b9c47c.tainted_spinach_nyol900.jpg?x=130&y=74&sig=xwoiADbLHpEcaFY6Ywo_kQ--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="Lettuce crops are see in Salinas, Calif. on Monday, Sept. 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, food may be safer now than at any other time in the last decade, with illness occurring at record-low rates, new federal statistics show.</p><br clear="all"/>