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⚠️Yet another #recall:

A nationwide recall of ground beef has been announced after 15 people became ill with E. coli food poisoning.

More than 160,000 pounds of ground beef by Wolverine Packaging Co.—based in Detroit, Michigan—are being recalled after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found Escherichia coli bacteria in a sample of ground beef.

newsweek.com/nationwide-ground…

in reply to Laffy

My Mom, a retired, licensed lab technician, worked in testing for food poisoning. She is losing her mind over the work being dumped on those specialists. Regulating and monitoring food production, and testing of food for contamination needs to happen before people get sick.

This approach is not going to save $. It will cost more and include massive healthcare impacts - the continuous pressure can break systems. Not to mention deaths. 😔

in reply to Laffy

the crazy thing is, these recalls are likely going to become rare or non existent while the limited oversight the FDA does will be more needed than ever.

😓

in reply to Philip Cardella

@philip_cardella The produce industry may actually lobby for oversight if consumer confidence plummets so low it actually affects sales. Unfortunately this will not likely happen unless some die, and the Trump administration is going to be so corrupt and incompetent it will not be able to reimplement such monitoring. Then we will have so see if the administration can somehow spin the disaster as the fault of others. They somehow evaded blame for mishandling an epidemic.
in reply to Daniel Marks

@profdc9 @philip_cardella
The lack of monitoring is what will be really deadly. How will we even know there's a problem if nobody is tracking foodborne illnesses and figuring out the cause? The public will remain uninformed because nobody will be assembling and publicizing the information.