When lettuce becomes unhealthy, it’s time to rethink food safety in the U.S.

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We live in partisan times, as anyone who had to sit through Thanksgiving dinner with distant relatives can probably attest. But even your crazy uncle would agree that the safety of our food shouldn’t be a partisan issue. No one wants their child to get sick from eating a hamburger, chicken, or—in the case of the current E. coli outbreak — romaine lettuce. Yet last week’s empty Thanksgiving salad bowls are a harbinger of what’s to come if our federal government does not start taking food safety seriously.

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