例如下面的报道是案例之一:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... ty/2944897
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10 ... tdown?liteIn 18 states, 278 people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to chicken produced in California. Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the consumer advocacy Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was flying blind when its investigation began. The reason: The shutdown forced closure of PulseNet, a national computer network that connects 87 public health laboratories and looks for trends in food-borne illness outbreaks.
The Food and Drug Administration has 60 percent of its 1,602 investigators on furlough, according to an administration spokesman – and the effects on the country’s food supply may last well beyond the shutdown’s expiration date, whenever that may be, experts said.