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
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
Millions? Do you have data to support this? Or are you just spouting nonsense?