Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Shows Need for Food Safety Laws

But Republican lawmakers still believe that the food industry should be freed from food safety regulations. Even as people continue to surface with listeriosis from this latest outbreak, the Republican Party is working to gut food safety laws. In June, House Republicans attempted to kill the first significant upgrade in the nation’s food safety laws in more than 70 years, arguing that the private food industry sufficiently policed itself.

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