Racism within US disease control and food safety

About this episode

Simone discusses issues of racism within the US Centers for Disease Control and its impact on food safety surveillance.

In today's episode Simone reflects on some issues surrounding the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), its employees, its roll-back of food safety surveillance and that decisions inherent racism. They begin with this article as a jumping off point: The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for food-borne illnesses by Aria Bendix https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-quietly-scaled-back-surveillance-program-foodborne-illnesses-rcna227089 They first consider the general...

People in this episode

Host: Simone

Topics covered

• racism
• public health
• food safety
• disease control
• surveillance

Keywords

• CDC
• food-borne illnesses
• racism
• health policy
• surveillance program

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Centers for Disease Control

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