lol’ing at that ladies’ quotes

regulators have the power to set the tone that encourages industry to do the right thing

if the public makes their voice heard, legislators will act

These people must live under a rock

  • berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Mixed on this without seeing the documentary and what nuance it approaches the situation with.

    Perfect decontamination of all food at all steps of the farm to store to your plate process is functionally impossible so there's always unfortunately going to be someone who gets unlucky and catches something. If the documentary can point out specific ways that the US regulatory system can be doing better than I'd agree with them. But I'm also hesitant to just assume it'd be good too given the history of fear mongering around food supplies that many "health nut" groups do.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      If the documentary can point out specific ways that the US regulatory system can be doing better than I'd agree with them.

      Speaking from what I've heard of scandals past, a lot of this boils down to sanitizing industrial processing equipment regularly, taking precautions as you move between different types of food (ie, moving from raw meat to vegetables and back again), and giving the workers proper safety equipment so they don't create the plane that was full of poop incidents.

      Because all of this costs time and money, which cuts into profits, industrial engineers cut corners and end up with more incidents than a more prudent administration would allow.

      • NeelixBiederman [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Most of the passengers on the charter flight were Japanese salesmen of The Coca-Cola Company and their family members, who had won a trip to Paris

        It was found that three cooks had prepared the meals, one of whom had infected lesions on the index and middle finger of his right hand. The lesions on the cook’s fingers were found to be infected with staphylococci. Tests revealed identical phage types and antibiotic resistances for all samples, indicating that the cook was the source of the contamination

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      US has some of the worst regulations in the world. Why would food be any different?