Chuck Darwin<p>A Trump administration move to axe key food safety advisory committees could leave the public more vulnerable to food-borne illnesses<br>-- particularly alongside current legislative efforts to undermine proposed safety regulations on food processors.<br>The decision to cut the committees, <br>which brought together academics, industry researchers and consumer advocates to advise agencies on food safety, <br>comes after hospitalizations and ⬆️deaths from foodborne illnesses more than doubled last year, <br>with most illnesses attributed to the same harmful pathogens that the groups were working to address. <br>And it comes less than a month after Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that would block the implementation of a proposed new regulatory framework for reducing <a href="https://c.im/tags/Salmonella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salmonella</span></a> contamination in raw poultry that was introduced under former President Joe Biden.<br>🔥“It doesn’t appear that this administration at the highest level seems to care about food safety,” <br>said Michael Hansen, a senior staff scientist for the group Consumer Reports who was serving on the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods<br>-- <a href="https://c.im/tags/NACMCF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NACMCF</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/03/decision-to-axe-advisory-groups-could-spell-trouble-for-us-food-safety/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewlede.org/2025/03/decisio</span><span class="invisible">n-to-axe-advisory-groups-could-spell-trouble-for-us-food-safety/</span></a></p>