Food safety notices are not a place to cut back
To the editor:
The E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details did not surface.
Trump, Kennedy, and Musk have scaled back food safety inspections and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game.
Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten a tainted salad. The E. coli bacteria that ravaged Colton’s kidneys was the same strain that killed one person and sickened nearly 90 people in 15 states last fall.
But most people have never heard about this outbreak. In what many experts said was a break with common practice, officials never issued public communications after the investigation or identified the grower who produced the lettuce.
Ray Allen
Fort Myers