US Government Shutdown = More Contaminated Food?

Having spent some of the last week in London (between deposition prep sessions) talking to people about the US (and, yes, with apologies to my partner and friend Mike Bono I did use apocalyptic political language), one question that has come up is — what effect does the shutdown (we’ll leave the debt ceiling discussion for a later post) have on the business I underwrite? Well, at least for the product recall market, it appears that the answer is — “significant.” A chicken related salmonella outbreak has arisen in California and, it appears that, even if the release of contaminated product is not the result of a lack of government funding, the government’s inability to respond may be.

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