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An industrialized global food supply chain threatens human health – here's how to improve it

  • Written by Robyn Metcalfe, Lecturer in Human Ecology, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution center for the UK grocer Sainsbury, Waltham Point, England.Nick Saltmarsh, CC BY

In an outbreak that has now run for more than 28 months, at least 279 people across 41 states have fallen ill with multidrug-resistant Salmonella infections linked to raw turkey products. Federal investigators are still trying to determine the cause. In...

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