We just had this happen and NBC broke this about an outbreak from Nov 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236 and you have the lead in baby food https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/04/15/target-recall-baby-food-lead/83105523007/
Good luck everyone
The FDA was already fucking worthless. I got severe food poisoning from some grocery store pre-boiled eggs some years ago, and when I asked them to look into it to prevent other people getting sick, they just connected me with the grocery store lawyers who were just useless and defensive.
I’ve ended up in the ER with food poisoning twice in my life. Had to call the ambulance both times, worst $3k sandwich of my life. It’s terrible.
You should’ve called your state or local dept of health, they have direct oversight of in-store prepared products.
That’s textbook anecdotal evidence…
Yeah, that’s fair.
When the FDA is abolished, will Kinder Surprise eggs be legal?
Sure, but we won’t be able to afford them because of the tarrifs…
If we are going back to member land, can we at least get that Heroin/Cannabis cough syrup, Benzedrine pills and cocaine throat lozenges over the counter again?
Best i can do is watered down vinegar and botulism.
“I’ll take it!”
-RFK Jr.
At least you won’t have autism!
And wood dust in flour, plaster in milk, listeria, heavy metals in candy, lead sweetener, arsenic in paint…
Well yeah, but that’s a given now that imports are taxed 10 to 245% and the FDA has been defunded.
… what are we supposed to fucking do? I can stop eating meat but it’s not like I can stop eating altogether. Am I just going to get food poisoning a few times over the course of this nightmare administration? Do I have to wait 4 fucking years to enjoy eating without worrying about getting sick?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
I worked in an industrial bakery for a while and was so mortified by the cleanliness and safety conditions that I basically only ate fresh vegetables & fruits and dry beans for several months because I was so worried about eating anything that had been under a factory roof
Was it good for my dietary health? Probably, but I spent a ridiculous amount of time on cooking and food prep and neglected other areas of my life to make up for it.
Everything sucks.
Ah, but now you can have tainted and contaminated fruits and vegetables too!
Yes. As I am insane, I also treat my raw fruits and vegetables with a UV light (not that this would inactivate endotoxins though. For that you’re SOL)
Always wash the ever loving FUCK out of your produce and dry legumes.
A whole bunch of libertarians are about to find out what the unregulated “free market” for food is like.
And when they get sick and/or die, someone make sure that they know its their own fault for not doing enough research before eating.
They knew this over a hundred years ago when Upton Sinclair reported on it and motivated the government to found the FDA. It made everyone more disgusted about what was in their food rather than the cost of human misery workers paid to produce it. Why do people forget the lessons of the past?
