California farm company identified as possible cyclosporiasis outbreak source: Reports

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31. Sanitation

Basic sanitation - sewage treatment and water management - is nothing new. Water testing is not difficult and if a supplier can't or won't test, then their produce should not be approved for public sale.

There is no excuse for these outbreaks, and no excuse for the right wings attacks on and dismantling of the public health and safety infrastructure. When there is an outbreak, it needs to be traced to the source. That requires funding and expertise. Thanks to the Michigan department of health (where the hell are Trump's feds???) this issue was traced back to a produce packaging operation, not a farm, despite the name "Taylor Farms." They are multinational, have some 20,000 employees, and are implicated in two previous outbreaks.