数据：盖洛普；图表：Avery Lotz/Axios根据盖洛普最新民调，美国人对超市货架上食品安全的信心，以及对联邦政府监管食品安全能力的信心，已跌至历史新低。
Data: Gallup; Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios Americans' confidence in the safety of food on grocery store shelves — and in the federal government's ability to regulate it — has plummeted to new lows according to a new Gallup poll. The big picture:
宏观视角：今年早些时候，多起同时发生的疾病暴发事件让联邦监管机构备受 scrutiny，而当时全国卫生系统的大规模裁员已引发人们对食品安全的担忧。
Simultaneous illness outbreaks put federal regulators under a microscope earlier this year, as layoffs across the nation's health apparatus were already causing food safety angst. By the numbers:
数据一览：根据上月进行的民调，不到一半的美国成年人对联邦政府确保食品安全的能力表示“非常”（11%）或“相当”（36%）有信心。
Less than half of U.S. adults have a great deal (11%) or a fair amount (36%) of confidence in the federal government to ensure food safety, according to the poll, which was conducted last month.
- 反之，多数人对政府监管食品安全的能力缺乏信心或完全缺乏信心——这是盖洛普长达二十年的间歇性追踪数据中首次出现的情况。
• On the flip side, a majority have not much or no confidence in the government's ability to police their food — a first in Gallup's trend, which has been intermittent for two decades.
背景延伸：与此同时，美国人对超市所售食品的信心也同步下滑，仅有65%的受访者表示“有些”或“非常”有信心，创下历史新低。
Zoom out: Meanwhile, Americans' confidence in the food sold at grocery stores has mirrored that drop, falling to a record low of 65% saying they are somewhat or very confident.
- 这一比例已从2019年的81%大幅下跌。这种日益增长的食品安全疑虑主要由民主党人和独立选民推动，而共和党人对超市食品的信心反而有所提升。
• That share has plunged from the 81% recorded in 2019. That growing food safety suspicion is driven by Democrats and independents, while Republicans have actually become confident in grocery store food.
- 在特朗普第二任期内，两党在联邦政府确保食品安全能力上的分歧不仅发生逆转，而且进一步扩大。
• The partisan chasm over the federal government's ability to ensure food safety has flipped — and widened — under the second Trump administration.
- 2024年，半数共和党人对政府确保食品安全的能力表示“非常”或“相当”有信心，而近四分之三的民主党人持相同看法。
• In 2024, half of Republicans had a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the government to ensure food safety, while nearly three-quarters of Democrats agreed.
- 到2025年，民主党人的信心降至48%，2026年进一步降至30%。与此同时，共和党人重拾信心，其信心水平从2025年的62%上升至2026年的70%。
• By 2025, Democrats' confidence fell to 48%, and to 30% in 2026. Republicans, meanwhile, found new faith, with their confidence climbing from 62% in 2025 to 70% to 2026.
快速回顾：今年的民调是在联邦政府宣布环孢子虫（Cyclospora）疫情结束前后进行的。这种寄生虫导致胃部疾病，造成两人死亡，并在21个州引发超过500人住院。
Catch up quick: This year's polling occurred during and after the federal government declared the end of an outbreak of Cyclospora, a parasite that caused stomach illnesses, two deaths and saw more than 500 hospitalizations across 21 states.
- 联邦卫生官员最终确认，此次迅速蔓延的疫情是由供应商泰勒农场出产的冰山生菜引发的。
• Federal health officials eventually traced the rapidly spreading surge to iceberg lettuce from supplier Taylor Farms.
- 但食品安全问题并未就此平息：今年夏季，接连发生了多起产品召回事件以及美国食品药品监督管理局的调查行动。卫生专家则警告称，政府预算削减已削弱了负责监测疫情爆发的公共卫生体系。
• But the food woes didn't stop there: This summer saw a flurry of overlapping recalls and FDA investigations, while health experts warned administration cuts had weakened the public health infrastructure responsible for detecting outbreaks.
与此同时，大量美国民众表示，他们为能否负担得起食品开支而忧心忡忡或倍感压力。
Meanwhile, significant shares Americans report concerns or strain about affording those groceries.
- 2025年8月至2026年期间，反映超市食品价格的消费者物价指数上涨了2.2%。
• The food-at-home CPI, for grocery store or supermarket food purchases, was up 2.2% between August 2025 and 2026.
矛盾之处：这一情况与现任政府的主张形成了鲜明反差。在卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪的推动下，政府一直将全天然食品作为“让美国重新健康起来”运动的重要组成部分。
Friction point: That collides with an administration that's pushed whole foods as part of its "Make America Healthy Again" campaign under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- 不过盖洛普的民意调查显示，相较于民主党人和无党派人士，共和党人更能接受政府关于食品安全的宣传理念。
• But Gallup's polling indicates Republicans have digested that food safety message far better than Democrats and independents.