Multi-State Outbreaks

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The rise of contaminated food in the last few years is disturbing. Multi-state outbreaks from contaminated food are hard to trace because of the amount of traveling that they do. however, lessons are being learned and protocols put into place in order to reduce the number of outbreaks that occur. Outbreaks are hard to investigate because one the food could travel through different sources before reaching the consumer, two the contaminated product is often used to make a different product so people will get it from different things, and three sick people often have a hard time remembering what they ate before they got sick. The government is putting new protocols into place and utilizing DNA sequencing to help prevent the outbreaks. there