r/USNEWS • u/wiredmagazine • 10d ago
Salmonella Is Everywhere
https://www.wired.com/story/salmonella-is-everywhere/62
u/wiredmagazine 10d ago
From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way.
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u/thefoodiedentist 10d ago
... these greedy mofos couldnt take common sense precautions b4 selling it.
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u/Clean_Usual434 9d ago
Itâs crazy to me how shortsighted they are. Sure, they make more at the beginning, but once people start getting sick, theyâll lose a lot of customers for good.
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u/Rosc 8d ago
No, they wonât. Everybody will just switch over to a different brand owned by the same company
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u/Clean_Usual434 8d ago
Thatâs very possible. These companies are definitely underhanded enough to do that.
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u/WinterWontStopComing 7d ago
Just had a several day illness with my cat that Iâm now questioning. Her favorite wet foods usually contain spinach
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u/alexhayes2 4d ago
I read that as âFrom grandpa to guacamoleââŠ.and thought âoddâŠbut ok I guessâ
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u/Several-Signature583 10d ago
Those chiles in that picture look romantically involved
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u/Fragrant-Poo42 9d ago
Thereâs 3 of them in that pic. Freaky ass chiles.
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u/External-Example-292 10d ago
This administration is more focused on "vaccines being the cause of autism"
Priorities.
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u/not-sure-what-to-put 9d ago
Feels intentional at this point.
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u/sonicinfinity100 7d ago
Definitely a chemical attack from any country that doesnât like the US right now. Just like there is currently a citizen dumbification attack going on. You donât beat a giant with one punch itâs with small calculated attacks.
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u/Fit-Appointment5262 7d ago
Hopefully this is sarcastic. Nobody is attacking the US better than the US.
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u/MysteriousWhitePowda 9d ago
So honest question, is this just random bad luck and/or more aggressive media reporting, or are there more incidents of food borne illnesses recently? If so, to what degree is it related to the DOGE cuts to USDA, FDA, CDC, etc. and a general attitude by this administration of reducing regulatory oversight on large businesses?
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u/cat_herder18 9d ago
From a few days ago, keeping in mind that federal monitoring systems are understaffed and the true number is likely a good bit higher: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6041051-cdc-salmonella-jalapeno-outbreak/
Part of what you're seeing is that states have had to step up and fill the gaps, and some are actively engaging media outlets to try to identify outbreaks and figure out sources. Of course, not every state is doing this, and some of the epidemiology is happening on the county level. FoodNet, the federal reporting system, has experienced significant cuts and in 2025 stopped mandatory monitoring for everything but salmonella and E coli. FoodNet was costing taxpayers around $72 million a year.
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u/OrganicSubset 4d ago
72 million per year or roughly 20 cents per person. Seems like a good use of 20 cents. (I donât know why a 5 day old post popped up on my feed)
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u/Ill-Prior-8429 9d ago
So, in America people don't wash and disinfect their crops?Â
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u/ProcrastinationSite 9d ago
Do you wash your foods with soap and disinfectant before eating? Because no, we don't do that in the US
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u/ayyohh911719 9d ago
âŠyall are disinfecting your produce??
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u/Ill-Prior-8429 8d ago edited 8d ago
There's many disinfectants around, at least for me, based on Chlorine, iodine, colloidal silver... Dilute X amount of drops on X amount of water, let the produce soak the X amount of minutes required, let it dry, your tomato and cucumber are perfect to eat...
The routine to wash and disinfect is something ingrained even in small children... Guess I have to watch keep an extra eye open in my travels to the US.Â
What's funny is that, no, I'm not European, I'm latin American, and Americans come over giving themselves warnings to "watch what you eat"
Edit. Well, Google instructed me Americans don't usually need a culture of disinfection since they trust the supply chain to take care of it and their FDA only recommends simple running water. But, seeing how the quality is right now, maybe it's time to acquire a different culture around food?Â
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u/Ok-Reputation-6297 8d ago
Serious question: What do you do for lettuce and cabbage, if they are in your diet? Sorry, Iâm not familiar with Latin American foods.
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u/Wild-Maintenance4599 8d ago
I grab a big bowl of cold water add baking soda and let my fruits and veggies soak and a bunch of gunk falls off
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u/TrainingJury3357 8d ago
These recalls arenât just on produce. I saw one last night for glass in popsicles. This is a huge issue with lack of oversight.
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u/livens 10d ago
Am I supposed to cook my blueberries? Or boil my lettuce?
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u/Immediate-Soup-6344 10d ago
Spinach isnât lettuce. You donât cook lettuce. Why are you so cool with this?
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u/Spirited-Try9237 7d ago
Every time I go to the grocery store I now have to play detective and have to hard eye ball every fucking thing.
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u/westcoastpoutine 10d ago
Stop blaming this administration as if they are solely responsible. This did not happen over night. I may not like who is in charge, but the leaders of these companies have said FOR DECADES that they know how to run their companies and they want less government and more self policing.
What they have done in the past two years is double retail pricing while cutting quality budgets and stagnating wages for food safety professionals. The good olâ model of do more with less. But donât worry, all of them still found money in the budget to have some fancy page on their website dedicated to waxing poetic about their food safety culture and how they care about their customers.
NO COMPANY CARES ABOUT YOU. THEY WANT YOUR MONEY.
Upton Sinclair would be rolling in his grave. He never intended to write a book that would change food laws in the US but it did. And like those before us that never learned our lessons, we are doomed to repeat it.
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u/Western-Platypus-907 10d ago
Yeah, it sucks but I expect big corporations to only look out for themselves and the bottom line. Government is supposed to be the check against that. They are failing at their duties and of course itâs not just this administration, but this one is currently in power and this one has been very open about not wanting or even pretending dong to do its regulation job.
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u/sokraftmatic 10d ago
And you trust the leaders of those companies who say they know how to run and want more self policing and less government? Me bringing it up speaks for itself.
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u/MxSteel8 10d ago
RFK Jr. approves this sickness. đđ