"America's Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It's Still Making People Sick."

[orleans]

Victims were landing in the hospital with roiling stomach pains, uncontrollable diarrhea and violent bouts of vomiting. The source of the infections seemed to be everywhere.

Even more alarming was that this strain of salmonella, known as multidrug-resistant infantis, was invincible against nearly all the drugs that doctors routinely use to fight severe food poisoning.

With a public health threat unfolding across the country, you might have expected federal regulators to act swiftly and decisively to warn the public, recall the contaminated poultry and compel changes at chicken plants. Or that federal investigators would pursue the root cause of the outbreak wherever the evidence led.

None of that happened.

Instead, the team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention closed the outbreak investigation nine months later even though people were continuing to get sick. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees meat and poultry, was not only powerless to act but said nothing to consumers about the growing threat. So supermarkets and restaurants continued selling chicken tainted with drug-resistant infantis.

And they continue to do so today.

https://www.propublica.org/article/salmonella-chicken-usda-food-safety

a lot more at link!
omg!

[orleans]

2. from article

"While no company showed up more frequently than Perdue, food inspectors were finding the Pattern 1080 strain in dozens of chicken processing plants as well as raw pet food and live chickens. To investigators, that was unusual because it meant that the salmonella couldn’t have come from a single company or chicken product. It had to be coming from somewhere upstream in the supply chain — perhaps the farms or the few companies that breed nearly all the nation’s chickens."

[Ritabert]

4. One example in the article was Perdue chicken

[ProfessorGAC]

3. The Headline Sounds Like...

...something a right wing deregulation nut would use as an excuse to gut the FDA & USDA.

[2naSalit]

5. Sure does.

[orleans]

6. hartmann was talking about this on his show

and from what i heard, that is essentially what he said happened