Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 86 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 26.
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Deirdre McPhillips of CNN reported that so far this year, the US has reported about 10,500 cases of foodborne illness.
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Between 2021 and 2025, the annual average was about 1,500 cases.
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At least 9,481 people in 17 states have fallen ill with cyclosporiasis carried by lettuce from Taylor Farms, and thousands more cases are being investigated.
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It's the largest cyclospora outbreak in US history, spurred by cuts of more than forty percent to food safety detection systems.
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It's not just lettuce.
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Frozen organic blueberries sold in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia have been recalled for E.
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coli.
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Fresh jalapenos from Taylor Farms have been recalled for salmonella.
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One point five million dozen eggs sold in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico have also been recalled for salmonella.
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Anna Skinner of Newsweek notes that while the focus has been on produce, in fact, FDA records show what she calls a steady stream of recalls that includes prepared foods, salad dressings, soups, bakery items, and ready to eat products potentially contaminated with salmonella, listeria, or foreign materials, including pieces of metal.
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As former US Surgeon General Dr.
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Jerome Adams wrote in USA Today, you cannot effectively focus on chronic diseases while you're being repeatedly overwhelmed by acute infectious outbreaks.
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He called for restoring the mandatory tracking of all eight pathogens that were covered by the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network or Food Net before the administration cut the surveillance down to just two.
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And for filling the leadership positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration that are currently vacant.
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He called for inspectors to prioritize high risk foods and imports and for the Department of Health and Human Services to reaffirm that vaccines are safe and effective.
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In the eighteen nineties, the determination of those like William Graham Sumner to keep government out of society in order to promote individualism had undermined public health and safety.
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Producers adulterated tuberculosis carrying milk with chalk and formaldehyde, decorated candy with lead paint, and scooped melted ice cream off the bottom of the vat to refreeze for sale the next day.
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And what was in sausage meat was a terrifying mystery.
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In the early twentieth century, middle class Americans demanded regulation of the food and drug industry.
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Ushering in the reforms that we now call the progressive era.
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