But the latest food safety scandal is even more over-the-top, and highlights another risk to all of us from the current administration. The CDC’s role in food borne infections, in part, is to help in figuring out what is making people sick. [For more details on how scientists track food borne outbreaks, and food safety tips to protect yourselves and your family, see here]. Food borne outbreaks have been steadily increasing, rising from 51 in 2000-2004, to 120 ten years later. Perhaps he should focus less on his “most beautiful chocolate cake”⁠ and more on food safety, hunger in America, and more pressing needs.

Source: Forbes April 17, 2017 10:30 UTC