FDA escalates recall of Costco eggs to include risks of 'severe illness or death'

https://abcnews.go.com/US/fda-escalates-recall-costco-eggs-include-risks-severe/story?id=117092796

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u/smack54az 2d ago

Im going to miss the FDA.

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u/nauticalsandwich 2d ago

Fun fact: It was actually the largest meat-packers in the US who lobbied for the FDA, and they had been lobbying for something like it for a decade prior to The Jungle getting published. It was just that the publicity of Upton Sinclair's novel brought on enough political capital to get it done.

Why did the big, industrial meat-packers want the FDA? It was for a number of reasons, but one of them was because they were tired of contamination outbreaks harming their sales due to poor sanitation amongst smaller, local meat-packers.

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u/swinging-in-the-rain 2d ago

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

-Upton Sinclair

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u/The_Knife_Pie 2d ago edited 1d ago

In general every company with the desire to still be operating during the mid century benefits from a sane and well functionary regulatory framework keeping small actors in check and the populace healthy and spending. It’s idiots who think in terms of 3 months that think there’s benefits to gutting health-and-safety and going Laissez-faire.

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u/OneWholeSoul 2d ago

Things are about to get all Upton Sinclair in a bad way.

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u/Tomacxo 2d ago

I expect some Sinclair Lewis as well...

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u/911111111111 2d ago

And Sinclair Broadcasting will tell me that egg prices are cheaper, but not due to decreased regulatory safety.

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u/marshmellowterrorist 1d ago

and then Shari Lewis.

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u/bapakeja 1d ago

Lamb Chop’s eat along 🎶

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u/mechanicalcontrols 1d ago

Yeah especially since he was trying to expose the plight of immigrants and the food safety standards were an accidental corollary.

"I took aim at the public's heart and by accident hit it in the stomach."

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u/MasonNolanJr 2d ago

Is it an initiative of the incoming party that they’ll get rid of the FDA?

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u/iamcts 2d ago

The incoming party gets a raging hardon every time they rollback a safety regulation that benefits consumers.

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u/arcrylx 1d ago

Deregulation wasn’t a major part of the narrative back then, it is this time around. There was no talk of “Department of Government Efficiency” back then.