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  randycupertino
  So let's see, in the past few years we've had the Boar's head listeria recalls, Taylor farms lettuce contamination, the McDonalds e.coli recalls in 14 states, now chicken wings...Defunding the FDA and forcing out 4500 staff via DOGE cuts caused this. Right now we have 400 safety inspectors covering 36,000 facilities vs the FDA's own estimates they need at least 1,500 inspectors.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/health/food-safety-trump-...
• altruios
  The Boston-based "Shanghai Ravioli Corporation, Inc." selling buffalo wild chicken wings...That's a wild combination of words there.
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  nba456_
  25,000 lbs is .0000007% of the 35,000,000,000 lbs of chicken consumed in the US each year.
• thundercleeze
  This post is not of sufficient quality for this board and I hope it's not emblematic of a trend.Thehealthy.com is not a real news outlet and this isn't real news. 25klbs of chicken is an infinitesimal amount of total consumed in the US.
• bradly
  When I saw the EST. 18004 in the article I thought the inspection stamps were bad ai attempts, but after some research I found out the EST here is not supposed to be a year, but the id of the establishment being inspected. You can look up the number or the company and see no entries here https://www.fsis.usda.gov/inspection/fsis-inspected-establis...
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  dmschulman
  The FDA was already in bad shape as far as inspections go. In 'The Secret Life of Groceries' (published in 2020) I believe the statistic was that the people responsible for keeping our food system safe only have the capacity to inspect around 5% of domestic agricultural and food processing operations nation-wide. That speaks more to the amount and size of agri-business in the United States than the FDA's capacity, but it also doesn't mean great things for the federal government's ability to preemptively intervene in most cases.DOGE cuts to FDA, HHS, FSIC, FTC, EPA, and more have inevitably made this problem much worse.
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  loloquwowndueo
  I wonder who they’re going to blame and tariff for this.
• edoceo
  It's like when your enemy undermines your logistics in a game. It's an attack, but not a direct attack. If you attack directly you might get called the aggressor.
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• roger_
  ~5000 chickens if anyone cares :(
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  ilaksh
  Why do they keep letting Tyson's frozen garbage through? The processed chicken "honey tenders" are great but most of the supposedly less processed frozen chicken I have bought from them recently has been nasty.
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  nsxwolf
  Interesting comments here. I've never lived in a time when there weren't news stories about food recalls. I don't think they can be used as data, though. They don't tell me anything about wether the US food supply is worse than it was last year, or 10 years ago, or if its standing in the world is rising or falling.Are we not interested in science and reason here?
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  claaams
  I feel safer eating food in a central American country than I do in the united states right now.
• imzadi
  There's also currently a recall of 30,000 pounds of Argentina beef at the same time Trump announced they would be increasing the allowed imports of Argentina beef and are relaxing beef import regulations so that they can undercut American ranchers.
• mwkaufma
  Awkward prose of GenAI.
• thataccount
  Speaking of supply chain security breaches...
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  eastof
  Maybe eating ultra processed frozen meat products wasn't such a good idea in the first place. Sad that some may have to learn the hard way.
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• jakzurr
  You import it illegally, you eat it.
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  josefritzishere
  Remember when the food was safe in America; it was 2024.
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  downrightmike
  Food is getting so bad, you should just paste the article:The reason echoes a recent issue the USDA has been following—one that's becoming peculiarly common.If you’re wondering what has been going on with our food, you’re one of millions. Now, on Wednesday, August 26, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a recall notice on 24,900 pounds of chicken.The event reportedly impacts foodservice businesses in New England—namely, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) says two separate frozen, not-ready-to-eat Buffalo chicken-flavored products from Boston-based Shanghai Ravioli Corporation, Inc. are being pulled. Why is the recall happening?FSIS surveillance reportedly found that products named as “Buffalo chicken rangoon” and “Benedetto’s Buffalo chicken mozzarella sticks.” The products apparently have “false marks of inspection” with “EST. 18004.”The cited reason suggests the matter may follow a recent trend, in which the USDA is suddenly clamping down on imported foods. An industry trade site refers to Shanghai Ravioli Corporation as a “distributor of pasta and other goods,” which means they could be involved in importing.The FSIS’s image of the products does not show a country of origin.Sources have explained that animal-sourced foods brought in from foreign countries need to be inspected once they reach the U.S. side. Other recent USDA recalls for the same reason affected soup and bacon, both from Canada. What’s the risk?Wednesday’s FSIS announcement states, “Food produced without inspection may contain undeclared allergens, harmful bacteria, or other contaminants that put consumer health and safety at risk.”The FSIS lists the recall as a Class I, which they deem as a high or medium risk. This ranking is used when “there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”The agency says it urges businesses not to serve the product and to discard or return them to the place of purchase.
• exe34
  It's a good thing Elon cut out all those useless bureaucrats and boosted the economy! The dow is doing great! People should learn to eat the dow instead of chicken.
• chasd00
  that's not very much chicken at all.
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  andrethegiant
  > Boston-based Shanghai Ravioli Corporationlol
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  LetsGetTechnicl
  Elon Musk has so much blood on his hands for this and USAID
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  lovich
  The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was woke nonsense that’s being rightfully combated by common sense now.Anyone complaining about all the food safety issues popping up actually hates capitalism and shouldn’t be allowed to participate in government. This is just capitalism at work and the market will sort out who is or is not willing to pay less for chronic diarrhea vs those willing to pay a premium for clean food.Don’t take away the people’s choice in how much diarrhea they want.
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  seany
  The scale of modern industrial food is really hard to comprehend. in the US the per-capita lbs for chicken in 104 annually. That's 36 _billion_ lbs annually.This is important, I'm glad some one caught it... it's also kind of a nothing burger
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  cute_boi
  Elon musk and Trump should be held responsible for all this. We should have more regulation on food safety.Instead government is focused on banning name on vegan burgers and other stupid things.
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• khriss
  Oh no! Surely under capitalism the competition from other producers would ensure that such a thing could never happen. Surely this is a freak event /sMany commenters have pointed it out, but it's such an important point that it needs to be repeated every time. Capitalism without effective regulation has never worked out in all of human history. In the absence of an entity with a big enough stick (aka the government), overt or covert methods of collusion always emerge which leads to a race to the bottom.Sadly for the Americans, approximately a third are so far down the path of 'govt bad' indoctrination that they need to relearn the lesson every couple of generations. Unfortunately for the rest of us, that third holds outsized political power due to the voting system.
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• dayyan
  What a TDS fest; blame on DOGE, RFK, and current administration based on emotion over fact.