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NYT: Food Safety No Longer Improving

Couple of paragraphs from the article below:

After decades of steady progress, the safety of the nation’s food supply is no longer improving. And in the case of salmonella — the dangerous bacteria recently found in peanuts and pistachios — infections may be creeping upward, the government reported Thursday.

“The lack of recent progress toward the national health objective targets and the occurrence of large multistate outbreaks point to gaps in the current food safety system and the need to continue to develop and evaluate food safety practices as food moves from the farm to the table,” disease center epidemiologists wrote in a note accompanying the release of FoodNet’s latest data.