The CDC Quietly Rolls Back Pathogen Surveillance as Foodborne Illnesses Are Rising

The public wasn’t told for nine weeks. Here’s what’s no longer being tracked—and why it matters.

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly pulled back one of the country’s most critical tools for detecting foodborne illness outbreaks. Without fanfare, without press conferences, and with little media attention, the CDC scaled down active surveillance for six of the eight pathogens tracked by FoodNet, a joint program it has run…