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Peacetrain

(24,291 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:03 PM Aug 2025

The CDC will no longer monitor for listeria.. listeria can cause miscarriage and still birth

The insanity continues.. I taught food safety as part of my position for the last 10 years before I retired. Listeria infection can lead to miscarriage and still birth. Apparently we can no longer educate and tract infection rates to keep babies and mothers healthy and alive , What in the hell is going on in DC??

https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-cdc-dramatically-scales-back-program-that-tracks-food-poisoning-infections/

"Federal health officials have dramatically scaled back a program that has tracked food poisoning infections in the U.S. for three decades.

The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet, has cut required monitoring to just two pathogens that cause infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s down from eight.

Under the change, which began in July, health departments in 10 states that participate in the joint state and federal program will be required to monitor only foodborne infections caused by salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria. Those are among the top contributors to foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S., the CDC said"

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The CDC will no longer monitor for listeria.. listeria can cause miscarriage and still birth (Original Post) Peacetrain Aug 2025 OP
States still can and only 10 states participated in the program. Think CDC will continue to monitor Silent Type Aug 2025 #1
Safety for Americans is no longer important to the billionaires who run our govt. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #2
OMG...It's freak'n fatal.... LeftInTX Aug 2025 #3
Like the Pinto gas tank, pro-life is too expensive. Norrrm Aug 2025 #4
Oh fuck markie Aug 2025 #5
The "CDC" can go get fucked durablend Aug 2025 #6
 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
1. States still can and only 10 states participated in the program. Think CDC will continue to monitor
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:11 PM
Aug 2025

salmonella, etc.

Monitoring for the six pathogens is no longer required for the 10 states that participate in the program, though those states aren’t precluded from conducting surveillance on their own. —- NBC News

Irish_Dem

(81,880 posts)
2. Safety for Americans is no longer important to the billionaires who run our govt.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:11 PM
Aug 2025

Costs too much money to save babies and mothers.
Letting them die is much cheaper.

markie

(24,027 posts)
5. Oh fuck
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:59 PM
Aug 2025

Listeria killed someone very, very close to me…. What the hell is going on 🤬

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