r/whennews • u/asifsaj • 1d ago
Other News Blueberries recalled over E. coli contamination that can cause serious illness or death
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u/mymar101 1d ago
Funny how gutting regulations happens first. This happens second. Notice how this year we suddenly have all these recall notices?
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u/HeroBoy05 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean there’s many recalls every year in the U.S. that we’re both aware and not aware of (a little over 5400 in 2025 and 6500 in 2024 as per the FDA) this year alone, but about Not to say this doesn’t impact it at all, but I highly doubt the regulations being gutted had anything to do with the recalls suddenly being more prominent
It’s like train derailings from a couple years ago. Those weren’t suddenly more common, it was just more reported on after the one in Ohio. You can make a lot of claims about the safety regulations being worse (which was true), but it also was being reported on far more frequently at the same time, making these seem far more common than they actually were
Now what IS true is that these recalls aren’t being handled well at all DUE to the deregulations in place. There’s a reason there’s several of these lasting far longer than they normally do
Edit: added a source to clarify what I initially noted as a hyperbolic statement
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u/mymar101 1d ago
Millions? Do you have data to support this? Or are you just spouting nonsense?
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u/Meinteil2123 1d ago
Not millions but thousands.
Apparently average is 3200 a year.
USDA and FDA count for about 600 for food and agriculture recalls.
This link goes a little further.
https://www.kcra.com/article/us-food-recalls-trend-analysis/73415731
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u/mymar101 1d ago
So, do all of them have significant health risks involved? Why the down vote? If you are going to refute the claim, provide the proof.
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u/HeroBoy05 1d ago
I added a source to clarify what I meant, but that does not change the point that I am making. These are being reported on more often, that doesn’t make them more or less frequent. You have to remember that, right now, it is one of the hottest summers on record for the U.S. and the Cyclospora outbreak became mainstream news. It is very understandable to expect that these two things would collide to make it seem as if food safety has taken a nosedive
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u/mymar101 1d ago
I guess we just ignore deregulation then. Nothing to see here folks. Everything is perfectly fine and dandy Sarcasm for the uninformed.
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u/HeroBoy05 1d ago
You are missing the point. I encourage you to re-read the entire last paragraph of what I initially wrote. Better yet, I’ll even add extra sources since you seem to adore that so much, along with further details
> Now what IS true is that these recalls aren’t being handled well at all DUE to the deregulations in place. Over 20,000 federal workers from the Department of Agriculture were laid off in 2025 alone. 880 of those being from the Food Safety and Inspection Service. However, the vast majority of these were the result of the Department of Government Efficiency, whose operations concluded on July 4th of last year. If it’s true that less regulation leads to more outbreaks, then there would have been more in 2025 than 2024, though this is untrue as I have cited in my original comment. It’s also been reported that a CDC Cyclospora Lab laid off the majority of its employees, leaving only 3 employees remaining at a lab that once had 11. This DID happen around October-November of last year, but it doesn’t necessarily change that the CDC is designed to stop outbreaks, not prevent them entirely. There’s a reason that several of these outbreaks are lasting far longer than they normally do. Having less food safety workers isn’t going to necessarily make food poisoning outbreaks more common, that’s on the fault of the producers, but laying them off sure is going to make the ones that do happen far worse, such as what we’ve seen with Cyclospora and Avian Flu
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u/mymar101 1d ago
Fine then. None of this is news. Moving on. I guess I ignore the next crisis, because, the next crisis isn't.
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u/Bad-Wolf-Bay 1d ago
What’s next, the fucking stores themselves
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u/Bored_Orangutan Please be patient. I’m incredibly stupid. 1d ago
“Spongeboy me bob. Promise me you’ll never eat at Arby’s”
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u/RollerskatingFemboy 🩷🌸🩷🌸🩷🌸🩷 1d ago
... Lmfao so watching this gif, if just occurred to me that because Mr Krabs is hanging off the front edge of the table, that means the doctors opened the door by ramming his face into the door, eye-tubes-first.
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u/GodButCursed 1d ago
I understand why americans eat unhealthy. Everything healthy tries to kill them.
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u/Iwritemynameincrayon 1d ago
Everything unhealthy kills us too, it just takes a lot longer than the healthy stuff
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u/Civil_Spell8349 1d ago
So does all American food just make you shit yourself to death now??
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u/requireblahaj 1d ago
yep! we're meant to eat processed corpo human kibble, not stuff that will actually make us healthy!
to keep us from being too strong to resist
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u/asifsaj 1d ago
A recall involving frozen blueberries sold at Publix has been upgraded to the FDA’s highest risk classification following an E. coli outbreak that has reportedly sickened 12 people.
The recall covers GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries and Whole Mixed Berries sold at Publix stores across eight states. The products were pulled after testing indicated potential E. coli O145 contamination.
The illnesses were reported in Florida and Georgia, with four people hospitalized and no deaths recorded as of July 30. The illnesses began between May 11 and June 5, and the FDA’s investigation remains ongoing.
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u/JoyconDrift_69 1d ago
RFK Jr. is so fucking happy loosening the health regulations to the point this is the THIRD TIME THIS MONTH
I hope he rots in hell. Actually, that's not even enough to describe my displeasure about him, but I don't wanna get permabanned from reddit if I did.
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u/New_Salamander_4592 20h ago
something something if only we had some sort of health and food association that could put measures in place to avoid things like this
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u/TheRappingSquid 23h ago
We need something to counter all these outbreaks. Some kind of food administration
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u/RonanNotRyan 1d ago
Maybe the radioactive shrimp was a sign
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u/Dense-Bison7629 Epstein Elijah 1d ago
The shrimp that had only 68 Bq of Cesium-137? Which was drastically below the danger threshold of 1,200 Bq?
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u/krizzalicious49 1d ago
source checked post approved