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CDC's system for tracking food-poisoning outbreaks needs some work

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 2 p.m.

b'One in six Americans is not how many have come down with COVID-19 so far, but it is how many catch foodborne illnesses every year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have developed sound systems to identify and track multi-state outbreaks of food poisoning. But a Government Accountability Office audit found the CDC needs to strengthen its performance assessment system to ensure that program works. For more, the Director of the Natural Resource and Environment team at the GAO, Steve Morris, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'