# Did DOGE ruin America’s food safety system?

https://mins.news/en/item/42845

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-02 23:25 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/aje-onl-nf_did-doge-ruin-americas-food-safety-system-020926?traffic_source=rss

> More than 11,000 people have fallen ill in the largest Cyclospora outbreak ever recorded in the United States. A series of food safety scares is prompting questions about whether Trump administration cuts to the FDA, CDC and state health systems weakened the country’s monitoring. Al Jazeera’s Noor Wazwaz explains.

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