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"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year ... Public health experts consider the program, called the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (or FoodNet), to be one of the most critical ways to protect against the dangerous pathogens, such as listeria and vibrio, that cause food-borne illnesses. For years, it tracked eight of them. As of [the summer of 2025], it will only track two."

"FDORA requires drug and device sponsors to submit clinical trial Diversity Action Plans to FDA ahead of pivotal clinical studies, including the sponsor’s goals for enrollment in the trial, the rationale for these goals, and an explanation for how the sponsor intends to meet those goals. Such goals must be disaggregated by age group, sex, and racial and ethnic demographic characteristics of clinically relevant study populations. FDORA also required FDA to issue guidance outlining the form and content of Diversity Action Plan submissions sponsors must follow and provide recommendations for sponsors on other aspects of the plans."