The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections.
That’s a move that raises questions about the future of food safety across the U.S. and under the Trump administration and following a worrying E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s onions that killed one person and sickened more than 100 others. Each year, federal health officials estimate 48 million people get sick and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases.
