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Well, one of the key problems is still shown: that farm voluntarily recalls the eggs. If the US still had relevant health and safety agencies, this should have been verified, and the culprit made to recall the eggs. But it looks like the offical powers are way too slow to protect the citizens.

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Hobo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Extremely likely under any administration that this would still have been a voluntary recall. Voluntary recalls aren’t really optional as they will quickly turn into legal proceedings, a court order, and a court ordered (mandatory) recall. It substaintially reduces the company’s legal risk and monetary risk to comply with a voluntary recall. There’s a lot more nuance but just from the wikipedia for the way different types of FDA recall strategies work:

The manufacturers or distributors of the product carry out most recalls of products regulated by FDA voluntarily. In some instances, a company discovers that one of its products is defective and recalls it entirely on its own. In others, FDA informs a company of findings that one of its products is defective and suggests or requests a recall. Usually, the company will comply.

If the firm does not recall the product, then FDA can seek legal action under the FD&C Act. These include seizure of available product, and/or injunction of the firm, including a court request for recall of the product.

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- Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The threat of being made to recall them is one of the safeguards here the second the company is told by their lawyers they will lose. These companies will only get more… entrepeneurial the more the threats are taken away.
  
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