Jeff Guo
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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So an outbreak that in the past might have been limited to one town or state can now spread across the entire country.
But what it took to make that happen was one of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in U.S.
history.
It happened in 2006.
People started showing up at the hospital with severe kidney failure.
They had all apparently eaten from bags of baby spinach.
More than 100 people were hospitalized.
A few people even died.
Yeah.
You see, in the U.S., there are basically two agencies in charge of making sure our food is safe to eat.
There's the Department of Agriculture, which inspects meat and poultry.
But for nearly everything else that we eat, that is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, where Jim would eventually go to work.
This F part of the FDA, it employs an army of food safety inspectors.
They go into the facilities that bottle our milk, that bake our Oreos, that churn our ice cream.
They make sure that the surfaces are clean, that workers are wearing hairnets, that everybody is following the food safety rules.
Yeah, the farms growing the nation's fruits and vegetables, they were basically unregulated.
Workers didn't even have to wash their hands.
The FDA didn't have the legal power to tell them what to do.
Jim says that incident made a lot of people realize that the FDA needs to be paying much closer attention to what is happening on farms.
There were congressional hearings about this.
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