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There’s a Major Foodborne Illness Outbreak and the Government’s Shut Down
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 08, 2013 09:31am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Maryn McKenna |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 8, 2013 03:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Late-breaking news, and I’ll update as I find out more: While the government is shut down, with food-safety personnel and disease detectives sent home and forbidden to work, a major foodborne-illness outbreak has begun. This evening, the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture announced that “an estimated 278 illnesses … reported in 18 states” have been caused by chicken contaminated with Salmonella Heidelberg and possibly produced by the firm Foster Farms.
At the CDC, which operates the national foodborne-detection services FoodNet and PulseNet, scientists couldn’t work on this if they wanted to; they have been locked out of their offices, lab and emails. |
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