Comment on Funny how that works
chunes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The number of recalls hasn’t changed significantly. It’s one of those things that is constantly happening and only gets picked up by the news when it starts getting clicks for whatever reason. It’s like when that train derailed in Ohio and then the media made everyone think there was a sudden epidemic of train derailments.
I say this not in defense of the current administration, but to calm potentially over-frazzled nerves.
This is like posting one of those graphs showing reported rapes in various countries. They show that are almost no rapes in Saudia Arabia.
The US administration gutted the agencies responsible for recalling food, of course there won’t be a rise, because most toxic food won’t be reported by the FDA anymore.
Its sharp decline there worries me much more…
Year isn’t over yet.
Now do illness and deaths related to foodborne disease. If recalls were a good proxy for the outcomes people care about, then the best course of action for public health would be to put a stop to all recalls.
The worst years in recent history were 2011 with 33 deaths and 2024 with 19 deaths. We’re at 2 so far this year. Illness, however, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a bad year for.
frank@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
My partner used to work for the FDA doing food safety stuff.
That’s actually part of the problem. The recalls are happening not preemptively but after it’s killing people. People dying from the e coli blueberries then initiating a recall. Nevermind how little prevention is happening before things go to market. Quality and production are always at odds with each other, but the threat of law was the only thing giving quality ammo. Now it’s just pure unfettered capitalism