Is Food Safety Compromised?

In July of last year, the government gutted the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, a partnership comprising three federal health agencies — CDC, FDA, and the US Department of Agriculture — and 10 individual state health departments. D, founder of Food Safety Strategy, LLC calls the cuts to FoodNet, CDC, and FDA catastrophic, yet she fears cyclosporiasis illnesses would have occurred anyway. Former FDA Execs' Expert OpinionsFormer FDA deputy commissioner, Frank Yiannas, criticized the federal government’s handling of the Cyclospora outbreak. Because eggs can be contaminated with Salmonella, FDA has long offered standard advice. “Several reporters have asked me about cuts to FDA and CDC,” McEntire said on her website.