If the April 2018 E. coli outbreak has taught us anything, it's that we are still a ways away from properly tracking our food from source to plate.
With 98 people infected across 22 states, this foodborne epidemic is among the worst in the past decade. It's left the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scratching their heads, attempting to identify the initial point of convergence for where everything went wrong. And it's a food safety mishap that might have been entirely preventable with the proper supply-chain technology in place.