Food Safety Lawyer Warns Federal Cuts Are Dismantling Outbreak Detection Systems
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Bill Marler
Summary
A food safety lawyer with over 30 years of experience representing victims of foodborne illness warns that the federal government is dismantling the teams and systems responsible for detecting and preventing foodborne outbreaks. Key personnel are being fired, defunded, and disbanded, leaving the food supply vulnerable. The author argues that pathogens don't care about politics or budget cuts, and that the consequences of weakening food safety infrastructure will be severe and deadly.
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· 3 pulledFor more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals.
I built a career holding companies accountable when the food safety system failed. I never imagined the federal government itself would become one of the things that fails.
The people who find foodborne outbreaks are being fired, defunded, and disbanded — and the bugs do not care.
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