You Might Not Even Hear About the Next Foodborne Illness Outbreak

What is the FDA even doing right now? | Tada Images/Shutterstock.com The agency is being less transparent about foodborne illness outbreaks and planning to end routine inspections of many foods. Yikes. Just in case you weren’t already worried enough about the state of our food supply, the Food and Drug Administration has apparently decided that telling American consumers about deadly food-borne illness outbreaks just isn’t important anymore. An investigation by NBC News uncovered an FDA report from November 2024, when people started coming down with serious illnesses after consuming lettuce that was contaminated with E. coli bacteria. Instead of telling…