Americans eating more safely, study finds

Mar 23 (Reuters) - The number of Americans eating risky foods such as undercooked ground beef, raw fish, oysters and runny eggs dropped by a third over a four-year period, according to survey results released on Tuesday.

The survey, made public at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, led researchers to conclude that media reporting and public health education efforts on risky eating habits and food-borne illnesses may be working.

But people under 18 years old with compromised immune systems were much more likely -- by 21 to 14 percent -- to eat high-risk foods than healthy people of the same age, the survey found, leading researchers to believe they may have to target specific groups for education.

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