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so many recalls!

FuzzyCatBird — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:53:57 GMT

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/current-recalls-and-alerts

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Re: so many recalls!

Vivian — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:59:33 GMT

How can anyone keep up with this? I look back on my childhood and recall the stomach viruses I had. I didn’t have a bug. I likely had food poisoning. In those days we had no recalls. We just got sick and hoped for the best,

Re: so many recalls!

FuzzyCatBird — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:05:04 GMT

i know, there are so many. seems like one every day lately. no one can keep up!

Re: so many recalls!

corita — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:25:13 GMT

I was thinking the same thing when I heard about yet another recall this morning! What worries me is that by the time the recall is reported, many people have already ingested the culprit food!! Maybe our systems are not really that proficient at detecting dangerous bits in our food!!!

Re: so many recalls!

godi — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:28:07 GMT

Just think about the food we don’t know about!

Re: so many recalls!

ROMARY — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:02:39 GMT

If any food item seems slightly 'off' in any way, make sure to call the company's toll free phone number and report the problem.

They are supposed to keep track of various complaints, and remedy the problem before it turns into a huge problem.

Re: so many recalls!

grandma r — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:09:21 GMT

Too many recalls; too many products made on production lines with no human oversight. Industry cuts jobs to increase their profit margin. We are seeing the result.

Re: so many recalls!

FuzzyCatBird — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:51:17 GMT

its too overwhelming to even try and keep up with these recalls. i read it is going to get even worse if you can imagine that! it is scary to even eat any food these days!

Re: so many recalls!

Spurt — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:41:03 GMT

Interesting that sometimes the same company keeps showing up over and over on the list like Tyson and Caito....I am avoiding these brands with repeat offenses....

Re: so many recalls!

ROMARY — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:02:20 GMT

'What I've been doing' (for many years):

I save all receipts, noting the date and various food items, including the ones that are perishable, at the top of the receipt.

'I know', it takes a minute of my time, but well worth it.

The latest dated receipts at the front/top.

After a year or so, I discard them.

Same with household and clothing items.

'Just in case' I decide to return/exchange them for whatever reason.

Which doesn't happen very often, btw.

Re: so many recalls!

lovesrecess — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 01:58:43 GMT

The recalls I think are so more prevalent due to fear of lawsuits...in the past, they probably didn’t worry too much about some possible problems in the food they were selling...people got sick and got better.

Re: so many recalls!

lovesrecess — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:04:59 GMT

About ten years ago, I made a can of alphabet soup and we ate it late at night after a late church function. Four of us ate it and all four of us were doubled over in pain by morning....the whole scenario...I will spare the graphic details....We were so sick I had to see the dr and he said if our stomach hurt that much we had food poisoning. He said to call the CDC. I gave them the info on the can label...the woman on the phone I spoke with said they couldn’t issue a recall until there were a minimum number of deaths from that particular batch of soup. None of us died....but I haven’t bought another can of alphabet soup since then! Hopefully, the protocol is different now than it was back then.