CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections
by Beth Mole from Ars Technica - All content on (#6ZM1Y)
In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight top foodborne infections down to just two, according to a report by NBC News.
The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet)-a network of surveillance sites that spans 10 states and covers about 54 million Americans (16 percent of the US population)-previously included active monitoring for eight infections from pathogens. Those include Campylobacter, Cyclospora, Listeria, Salmonella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia.
Now the network is only monitoring for STEC and Salmonella.