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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/09/2026
And now we head into our quarterly break! For the next two weeks, Unbreaking will be resting, catching up on backlog, and training new volunteers. If you want to join us as a researcher, writer, or editor, this is a great time to do it! We’ll be back on October 9. unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/09/2026
The Archives & History team added 2 events in this week’s update, including a new lawsuit to force the administration to fulfill its legal obligation to publish the text of signed international agreements. www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
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CREW, Lawfare sue the Department of State for violating the Case Act - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
CREW, Lawfare sued the Department of State for violating the Case Act by failing to make international agreements publicly available.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/09/2026
The Trans Healthcare team published 6 timeline events, some of which overlap with Immigration and Data Security. We’ve known for a while that ICE denies health care to detainees; now we know they are forcibly detransitioning trans immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/n...
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Trans Migrants in ICE Detention Are Losing Their Rights and Medical Care
U.S. officials have sometimes eliminated access to gender-related treatment and dissolved measures meant to shield transgender detainees from harassment.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/09/2026
The Infectious Disease Control team added 11 items in this update. Like many people who care about public health, we’re keeping eyes on the (increasingly) deadly measles outbreak in Pennsylvania. abcnews.com/US/measles-r...
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4 measles-related deaths reported in US for 1st time since 1992
The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed two additional measles-related deaths on Tuesday.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/09/2026
The Data Security team added 23 timeline entries. The Supreme Court has saved mail-in voting from Trump administration interference…at least for the midterms. www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...
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The Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midterms
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/09/2026
This week, we have timeline updates from Data Security, Infectious Disease Control, Trans Healthcare, and Archives & History. You can always find the latest on all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/09/2026
We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. If you’d like to know more: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/09/2026
And our Food Safety team added 3 entries to the timeline, including reports that earlier this year, Congress defunded or hollowed out nearly all the USDA’s research on cyclospora, the parasite that left us ill and suspicious of fresh produce this summer.🤢 unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
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Food Safety: Timeline — Unbreaking
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/09/2026
Our Medicaid team added 3 entries to the timeline, highlighting a new KFF analysis showing that hospitals in at least 37 states will see major payment losses—up to $7.4 billion in California alone—because of last year’s budget reconciliation law. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/09/2026
The Medical Research Funding team added 6 timeline entries, and one is a particularly nasty deal to funnel billions of dollars in NIH funding to the Department of Defense. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/09/2026
This Immigration update added 23 timeline events, including several related to targeting protesters and dissenters, a lot of court activity, and the death by suicide of twenty-year-old college student Pierre Damas Bel, after ICE forced him to wear an ankle monitor. unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/09/2026
This week we have updates on Immigration, Medical Research Funding, Medicaid, and Food Safety (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/09/2026
We invite people to republish, remix, and adapt our content. If you make good use of it, let us know: unbreaking.org/license/
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/09/2026
And our Archives & History team added 2 entries to the timeline, including the publication of a bizarre, anonymously authored Census Bureau report on immigrant voter fraud. unbreaking.org/issues/archi...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/09/2026
The Infectious Disease Control team added 13 timeline entries, many focused on vaccines: We did get approvals for new COVID shots, but the administration is working hard on multiple fronts to make vaccination less accessible. unbreaking.org/issues/infec...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/09/2026
We’ve also got a major website improvement on that Data Security page: topic tags, hallelujah. You can now filter the massive timeline to show thematically grouped entries. So if for some reason you wanted to examine all the items about election data... unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/09/2026
Our Data Security update added 30 timeline events, with a lot of coverage on recent attempts to block voting by mail and consolidate Americans’ private data. We also saw some anti-Flock action from unexpected quarters (good morning…Governor Abbott?). unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/09/2026
This week we have updates on Data Security, Infectious Disease Control, and Archives & History (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/08/2026
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/08/2026
And our Food Safety team added 2 entries to the timeline, both concerning the FDA: The agency has a new nominee for commissioner—Dr. Heidi Overton—and is still struggling to catch up with Cyclospora. unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/08/2026
The Medical Research Funding team added 4 timeline entries, highlighting recent NIH policy changes that appear tailor-made to enable partisan political manipulation of grant funding. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/08/2026
Our Immigration update added 26 timeline events, including increases in third-country removals and ongoing fallout from the Supreme Court’s Mullin v. Doe decision regarding temporary protected status. unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/08/2026
This week we have updates on Immigration, Medical Research Funding, and Food Safety (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/08/2026
The ACHP has submitted these changes for review by local, state, and tribal governments—which means now is the opportunity to take action! Check out this guide from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for steps you can take to protect historic sites. 5/5 savingplaces.org/section106
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Section 106 Under Threat | National Trust for Historic Preservation
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is advancing changes to the Section 106 process of the National Historic Preservation Act. If adopted, these rules would eliminate public participation in...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/08/2026
In our last update, we covered the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation’s (ACHP) vote to revise Section 106, which requires the federal government to seek public input about construction and development on historic sites. 4/5 www.npr.org/2026/07/23/n...
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Trump allies vote to weaken protections for historic sites — not just in D.C.
A council packed with Trump appointees wants to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/08/2026
In better news, researchers published an archive of USAID program evaluations, which were taken offline when the administration shut down the agency. These reports contain valuable reports on the effectiveness of (what was) the world’s largest foreign aid system. 3/5 www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/08/2026
This will (self-evidently) make it easier to evade responsibility for shell companies and hide financial crimes like money laundering. We probably don't need to tell you who benefits from that. 2/5 www.gao.gov/products/gao...
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U.S. GAO - Corporate Transparency: Treasury Should Address Gaps in Ownership Information Resulting from Expanded Exemptions
U.S. companies aren't usually required to disclose the identities of people who own them. This lack of transparency can be attractive to criminals...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/08/2026
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network recently deleted most of a business ownership database created under the Corporate Transparency Act, and going forward, businesses can go back to keeping secrets about who actually owns them. 1/5 home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
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FinCEN Permanently Ends Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements for Millions of Small Business Owners
Will Delete Information Previously Reported by U.S. Persons WASHINGTON––Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership …
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 25/08/2026
Fortunately, an executive order cannot make most of these changes, with one exception. The EO directs the attorney general to sue states over religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates. That’s only…80 years of Supreme Court precedent to upend. 4/4 www.celinegounder.com/p/trump-chil...
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Trump said the vaccine order was about autism. It never says autism.
The order cuts the recommended list from 18 diseases to 11, tells manufacturers to split a shot nobody makes, and hands the Attorney General the only part a president can actually execute.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 25/08/2026
The order also pushes for splitting the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots. That will require more visits, making doctors’ and parents’ lives worse. But—oops—separate shots do not currently exist in the US, and manufacturers have little interest in producing them. 3/4 www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/h...
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Trump is counting on the health care industry to remake vaccines. It’s pushing back instead
Trump wants to change how American kids are vaccinated, but doctors and the pharma industry aren't on board.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 25/08/2026
As in the related EO earlier this year, the White House claims the order brings us in line with peer nations. But the US is peerless 💅: We pay more for care, have worse outcomes, and lack universal healthcare coverage. Fewer vaccines are hardly the answer. 2/4 www.statnews.com/2026/08/10/t...
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Trump returns to controversial vaccine policy with order questioning childhood schedule
The Trump administration, which had recently avoided public discussions of vaccine policy because of concern around the political repercussions, is changing course.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 25/08/2026
Despite lacking anything remotely like evidence, the White House just tried to remake the childhood vaccine schedule by fiat. No support from pediatricians, and no success in court—no problem! They’ve got executive orders to spare. 1/4 publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/what-do...
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What Does the Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines Say? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s guidance calls for reducing the number of routine immunizations for children and separated measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/08/2026
And stay with us on the Data Security timeline for the big picture on state surveillance and other Trump-administration violations of our personal autonomy. 6/6 unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
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Data Security — Unbreaking
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/08/2026
If the thought of constant scrutiny is making you squirm, we sympathize. @eff.org’s Surveillance Self-Defense guide is a great place to look for guidance on safer practices. 5/6 ssd.eff.org
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Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting ...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/08/2026
And @wired.com has 13 years of records showing that when law enforcement agents have access to expansive surveillance systems, they will spy on strangers, ex-partners, and each other…a lot. 4/6 www.wired.com/story/cbp-wo...
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CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/08/2026
Not that this fascism-flavored nosiness is new. After federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS employees snuck into group chats, stalked people on social media, and pulled financial records for activist groups and labor unions. 3/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/08/2026
ICE is even dabbling in precrime, paying data broker LexisNexis millions of dollars for access to billions of records, which they intend to use to stop immigration “crime” before it happens. We’re not sure exactly how that’s supposed to work. 2/6 www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-l...
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/08/2026
We’ve been learning a lot lately about how federal agencies surveil us: We all know that people are mad about Flock cameras and starting to get loud. Now we know that law enforcement is monitoring social media (and conflating dissent with destructive threat). 1/6 www.404media.co/the-governme...
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The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
Our Archives & History team added 2 events to their timeline. The Treasury has hollowed out a database that allows us to track white collar crime (Corporate Transparency Act? Don’t know her). But a whole lot of other people are working hard to preserve public records. unbreaking.org/issues/archi...
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Archives & History — Unbreaking
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
Our Trans Healthcare team posted 5 new timeline entries, keeping an eye on the legality and availability of gender-affirming care as well as the question of who pays for these essential services. unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
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Transgender Healthcare: Timeline — Unbreaking
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
On the Infectious Disease Control front, we added 10 timeline entries, including the confirmation of CDC Director Erica Schwartz, who has been notably quiet about renewed White House efforts to nerf the childhood vaccine schedule. unbreaking.org/issues/infec...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
Our Data Security team tracked 16 events. Good: Trump's voter data grab hit its 23rd consecutive court loss and an order is protecting mail-in voting, for now. Not great: ICE is surveilling people who *might*, according to data from some broker, commit a crime. unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
This week we have the latest on mail-in voting (again), attacks on childhood vaccines (yes also again), and competing efforts to destroy or salvage public archives. unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Data Security, Infectious Disease Control + more — Unbreaking
The latest on mail-in voting (again), another attempt to limit childhood vaccines, and efforts to salvage public archives.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/08/2026
These public servants deserve more than our gratitude—they deserve predictable, well-funded support so they can do their jobs. www.wsj.com/health/the-s...
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The Science Lab Where Technicians Are Drowning in Feces
Samples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.”
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/08/2026
Our outbreak response may be questionable, but the dedication of those who spend long days tracing outbreaks and staring at slides under their microscopes is incredible. We salute the public health workers trying to protect us all. kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
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Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/08/2026
It's been 7 years since the FDA inspected the Mexican farm at the center of the outbreak. By law, the FDA is required to do *20 times* as many inspections of foreign suppliers as it did in 2025. And after last year’s firings, its inspection rate is only getting worse. www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-...
FDA inspections really are the first line of defense for mitigating outbreaks. If FDA isn't routinely going out to food facilities, it's just completely blind," said Meridith Seife, the lead author on a Health and Human Services Inspector General report on FDA inspections of U.S. facilities. "It's unable to ensure that those facilities are complying with the laws, with regulations, and that the food that they handle is safe.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/08/2026
The biggest cyclospora outbreak—Michigan’s—may finally be slowing, but not before two deaths and 20,000 illnesses nationwide. Despite its MAHA bluster about “real food,” the government’s response has been chaotic, leaving many in the US afraid of…vegetables. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Fear of lettuce is making RFK Jr.'s food messaging harder for consumers to swallow
The parasite, which spreads via fresh produce and can cause explosive diarrhea, has sickened thousands of Americans in this summer’s record outbreak.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/08/2026
It's been 7 years since the FDA inspected the Mexican farm at the center of the outbreak. By law, the FDA is required to do *20 times* as many inspections of foreign suppliers as it did in 2025. And after last year’s firings, its inspection rate is only getting worse.
"FDA inspections really are the first line of defense for mitigating outbreaks. If FDA isn't routinely going out to food facilities, it's just completely blind," said Meridith Seife, the lead author on a Health and Human Services Inspector General report on FDA inspections of U.S. facilities. "It's unable to ensure that those facilities are complying with the laws, with regulations, and that the food that they handle is safe."
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