Food safety scares raise questions over whether Trump’s cuts weakened US food safety monitoring.
More than 11,000 people have fallen ill in the largest Cyclospora outbreak ever recorded in the US. A string of food safety scares are raising questions whether Trump’s cuts to the FDA, CDC and state health systems impacted how the US monitors food safety. Al Jazeera’s Noor Wazwaz explains.
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