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Democrats Overstate Role of Monitoring Program Change in Parasitic Outbreak

Democrats Overstate Role of Monitoring Program Change in Parasitic Outbreak

As a large outbreak of cyclospora has ravaged the Midwest, Democrats have frequently pinned blame on the Trump administration for terminating a monitoring program for the parasite. But the change to the program, called FoodNet, is unlikely to have played much of a direct role in the current outbreak, several food safety experts told us.