Opinion: Our food is tainted with E. coli, yet the FDA is rolling back the rules (via latimesopinion)
This marks the fourth outbreak of E. coli in romaine lettuce in just the last two years. These outbreaks lay bare an alarming truth that contradicts a century of germ consciousness and progress in public health in the United States: Our food system still is not safe. And the Trump administration’s aversion to safety regulations means that this will not be the last outbreak.
FDA rules enacted during the Obama era would have required monitoring and treating irrigation water for E. coli, starting in 2018. Farms would monitor their irrigation water for pathogens at least once each growing season and possibly more frequently depending on proximity to potential pathogen sources. Following discovery of microbial pollution, the rules require mitigation of the danger, either by treating the water or by switching to an uncontaminated water source.
Beyond packaging, a new social ethic of disease prevention was born. Containing one’s own infections and the infections of others wasn’t just good hygiene, it was good citizenship, a marker of a highly collaborative public health ethic.
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