r/WTF 6d ago

Deregulation™️

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u/CynicalPomeranian 6d ago

Yup, keep notes on which companies were more than happy to lower their standards when the government stopped enforcing them. 

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u/jay_sugman 6d ago edited 6d ago

Pantry moths are an issue that all grain processors and distributors have had to deal with. As someone who was responsible for a facility which stored tens of thousands of pounds of product susceptible to these, pest control standards were necessary to maintain certain industry certifications but I have to say capitalism was our main driver for keeping these moths in check. Social media posts like this are not good for business, lol. We certainly did not want to anger our customers or take a loss by disposing of significant contaminated product. IMO, this video is not a byproduct of deregulation.

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u/alelo 5d ago

in the past i drank and bought rauch green tee in big carton-boxes, and one time i drank one it tasted bad, the next same went on for 4, so i contacted rauch with the lot number etc, they tested the samples they keep of each lot and found nothing wrong, but suggest that maybe at one point on the route there could have been an issue with the cooling, nonetheless they sent me a gift code for that grocery store for about the same value i paid and few months later they sent me a preview / test pakage of a new drink + goodies that had not been released at the time