We Are Likely Facing More Food Contamination Outbreaks Due To CutBacks
Due to large cutbacks and layoffs, there are much less inspectors, inspections, and safety regulations. Results more outbreaks and sickness. The elderly and our kids are more at risk. Did these cutbacks reduce our budget deficits? No, the Republicans are spending like drunken sailors and the deficit is balloning, ~38 Trillion!!!!! See you in the bathroom or hospital.
This is what happens when you severely underfund food safety bodies.
"We could be at greater risk of foodborne infections because the FDA is so understaffed and underfunded right now"
"US is now on track to have more cyclospora cases this year than any previous year in history is likely no coincidence."
"Last year, the CDC — which has lost some 3,000 employees under Trump — scaled back its food surveillance program called FoodNet that monitored eight common foodborne pathogens, changing it so that surveillance of the cyclospora parasite that causes cyclosporiasis was optional."
"USDA lost over 20,000 workers last year, with 913 of them coming from its Food Safety Inspection Service."











