CDC confirms cuts to program that tracks foodborne pathogens
The CDC officially confirmed that it no longer followed six of the eight pathogens that cause diseases of food origin.
In communication with Food security news A spokesperson for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the agency would only follow Salmonella and Shiga-toxin producing E. Coli (STEC) in the future.
“Although Foodnet will lead to Salmonella and Stec, he will maintain both his infrastructure and the quality it has come. Food security news.
Alvarado said that Foodnet’s activities began on July 1 and included the abolition of six pathogens from its surveillance activities. These pathogens include Listeria, which often leads to death. Campylobacter, Cyclospora, Shigella, Vibrio and Yersinia are the other pathogens of the official work of Foodnet. He said Foodnet had the opportunity to continue to cover these pathogens, but did not say where funding would come from.
An unnamed CDC source recently said NBC News This foodnet – The active food disease surveillance network – Activities have been cut due to insufficient funding.
Foodnet reduction is the largest reduction in surveillance since the closing of the USDA microbiological data program (MDP) due to industry lobbying. The MDP began to collect and analyze samples of fresh products in April 2001.
Craig Hedberg, professor at the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota and Codirector of Integrated Food Security of Minnesota, told the Center of Excellence, told Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy that food cuts endangering the nation of more diseases of food.
“The disturbing thing about the reduction of Foodnet’s funds is that it normalizes the idea that monitoring foods of food origin is expensive and unimportant,” he said. “In fact, this is the basis of our food security system and needs additional investments, and not restrictions,” said Hedberg.
Alvarado said Food security news That, while Foodnet will continue to monitor Salmonella and Stec, two of the six food pathogens will no longer follow – Campylobacter SPP. And Listeria Invasive Monocytogenes – are the main causes of “foods of food origin and linked to hospitalizations and deaths in the United States”.
He also said that there were two other pathogens included in the government’s government objectives in the 2030s to reduce foods of food origin that will no longer be followed. Foodnet played a crucial role in the capacity of the CDC to follow and investigate the epidemics of diseases.
“The CDC remains determined to protect the health of all Americans. Since 1995, Foodnet has contributed to strengthening surveillance of modern food diseases;
The own CDC estimates, based in part on food data, show that Campylobacter – which is no longer followed – only caused 1.9 million cases of food origin in the United States in 2019, beating Salmonella and Stec. Salmonella, Campylobacter, Norovirus, Listeria and Stec have caused the most deaths.
Foodnet is a joint effort between the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Department of Agriculture and 10 State Health Services. Although state health services are no longer required to follow the six pathogens cut with foodnet, they can continue to monitor these pathogens at their expense.
The Maryland Department of Health said NBC NewsHe would continue to report the eight pathogens regardless of Foodnet changes. On the other hand, the Ministry of Public Health and the Environment of Colorado said that it should change the surveillance of certain pathogens if the funding was reduced during the year 2026.
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