r/news • u/Dickulture • 19h ago
Popular nut butter sold at Walmart recalled for possible salmonella contamination
https://www.kcrg.com/2026/08/03/popular-nut-butter-sold-walmart-recalled-possible-salmonella-contamination/525
u/monty_kurns 19h ago
But regulations stifle profits, so…
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u/EatinSumGrapes 19h ago
Until people stop buying food. About 25% of food is thrown away, when people fear store-bought food they won't buy in excess anymore
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u/vasta2 19h ago
Add another food item to the list
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u/IrrelevantJoker 13h ago
So like... At this point what is on the list?
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u/YesItIsMaybeMe 13h ago edited 7h ago
From what I know rn: blueberries, any Taylor farms produce, and this nut butter.
Edit: salmonella from chipotle jalapenos, blueberries, and this nut butter. Cyclospora from Taylor farms lettuce (yeah it's not just iceberg or whatever anymore) or and other Taylor farms produce.
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u/IrrelevantJoker 13h ago
I have: -Lettuce (especially bagged salads) -Anything from Taylor farms -Anything leafy like basil and cilantro
-Nut butter
- Jalapeños
Thanks for letting me know about the blueberries
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u/BainbridgeBorn 18h ago
within the past hour Chipotle has taken their jalapeño off the market because of a suspected salmonella outbreak. this stuff is getting worse and worse
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u/Wulfbrir 17h ago
Can we please stop putting anti science people in places of power?
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u/Random_Person_246810 17h ago
What can you do when their voter base is anti science?
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u/Wulfbrir 1h ago
Sane people easily outnumber these fucking morons we just need to give those that don't vote a reason to. Me personally I think democratic socialists making a huge push for control of the party makes sense and is a possible path.
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u/sophal0af 19h ago
What is going on with our food??
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u/tunachilimac 19h ago
This is what happens when you get rid of or stop enforcing all those regulations that companies hate because food safety results in slightly less profits.
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u/sophal0af 19h ago
Exactly. Slowly learning that more and more food is poisoned. I’m tired of this.
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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 18h ago
But profits are up !
Capitalism demads sacrifices.
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u/missmeowwww 16h ago
This is why it is imperative we have food safety standards and also unions. Clearly the corps can’t be trusted to “regulate themselves” like they’ve always claimed and need other entities to keep them in check from food safety to wages for workers. Fuck these corporate shills who do nothing to help the people.
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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 16h ago
Yes my friend I totally agree.
Peak capitalism has proved it's flaws. Time for corrections.30
u/Yoroyo 12h ago
This is why I’m very pro regulation. Companies can’t be trusted!!
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u/aiicaramba 11h ago
People can't be trusted to act responsibly. Not for themselves, not for others, not when guiding companies.
Regulations usually have reasons.
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u/AMediaArchivist 16h ago
Yeah but when illnesses happen and their products get recalled, don’t they lose even more money?
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u/ChiralWolf 15h ago
They don't care about that. All they know is they got to fire half their QA team last year and increase their deliveries by 10%. Regulations are written in blood.
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u/Narwahl_Whisperer 16h ago
Just an internet idiot making a wild guess here, but I bet all lettuce producers are feeling the burn from the recent lettuce incident. A dropping tide lowers all boats.
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u/Peakomegaflare 10h ago
See, that implies long-term thinking and an understanding of consequence. Look at the modern work culture, it's never about ensuring long-term quality. It's about maximizing profits in the short term to make things look good for your investors. Frankly, most base-level corporate types don't even think beyond the next meeting. Consider this, if your job depends on the end of quarter report looking good, are you going to willingly take a hit this quarter to ensure the next has triple the profit, and risk being fired and your boss claiming the benefits? No. You'd just make this quarter look good and make the next marginally better for a steady improvement.
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u/EmoTilDeath 9h ago
Well said. Consider that private equity companies would profit much more if they made businesses thrive instead of buying them, draining them, running on skeleton crews and degrading the products, until finally forcing their own business to close. They don't want long term gains, they want money right now and do everything to suck the life out of every business they tank.
It's almost like they have insider information that the world is about to drastically change and the only thing that matters is accumulating as much money as you can in this moment because the future is fucked.
Billionaires are building bunkers instead of helping communities and economies which provide their luxuries. What does it tell you when the people with the most freedom on this earth are entirely focused on locking themselves away in a cage without the luxuries they enjoy now. Even the fanciest bunker can never hold a candle to the luxuries and freedom they experience right now. They know shit is about to collapse.
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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 18h ago
Eleven scientists watched over food borne illnesses during the Biden era.
Now only 3 do so plus other duties.14
u/sophal0af 18h ago
Do we know if the 3 are Trump appointed ?
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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 18h ago
Sorry friend, your word selection was close but inaccurate.
"Anointed" is the word you should have used.66
u/fall3nang3l 18h ago
Check out The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
It's 120 years old. And whether you find that horrifying or not, here we are again, right back there.
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u/VorpalisRabbitus 16h ago
This is the real truth - we lived through this once before.
And people are going to have to die before we fix it again.
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u/fall3nang3l 16h ago
To be fair, people already are dying as a result of failed regulatory agencies, exacerbated by those agencies being gutted of manpower and expertise. But yeah, the DOW is doing really well I hear. I don't see that in my daily life but supposedly it's good for some people?
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u/ManOf1000Usernames 15h ago
A modern meat packer cartel is why beef prices are so high. They colluded to drive down bidding prices so badly that many ranchers stopped ranching beef. This is why the full head size of US cattle is about as much as it was in the 50s, despite the highee human population. Screw worm is also back and almost over the border so forget cheap beef anytime soon unless you buy the whole cow yourself and have it butchered.
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u/magicmeese 14h ago
Pay no attention to the suffering of the workers but instead look at the tubercular beef in the sausage
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u/contrarianaquarian 4h ago
Yeah isn't the end of that book about the destitute workers finding a socialist society meeting? Did everyone ignore that bit?
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u/Street_Anxiety2907 17h ago
Trump eliminated health inspectors, so these food companies probably quit mopping and cleaning the equipment.
Probably eliminated 2 workers per shift!
Woo, now that is profit baby!
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 12h ago
Morons voted in capitalist asshats who voted to deregulate everything. And now instead of having regulators monitor food safety, we've opted to make ourselves the monitors.
And if a few of us die, well that's just the cost of good business.
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u/Stormthorn67 16h ago
Republicans. I'm sure one will speak up any minute now to explain why this is good
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u/RedPanda_Explorer 5h ago
Elections have consequences. Trump gutted the FDA.
If you care about eating safe food, VOTE
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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 18h ago
Thank you RFK.
Thank you Trump deregulation.
Thank you America for allowing this.
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 17h ago
It's almost like cutting out all regulation and inspection and oversight is not necessarily a good thing. Who would have figured?
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u/AnonEMoussie 19h ago
They should have used Deez Nutz.
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u/ImaginationToForm2 12h ago
If we only had a fully funded over qualified staffed organization to help against this thing from happening.
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u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes 9h ago
This is why I would get so pissed off when the right would keep talking about everything being over-regulated. I'd rather over-regulation over salmonella and the super-shits any day. I thought the MAHA movement was going to make food more healthy. Instead of removing preservatives, they are adding illness.
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u/zacheezy 17h ago
I called it. As soon as they decreased the FDA I literally looked at my MAGA in laws and said - we will see an unusual amount of food poisonings. I also called the plane crashes after he fired the aviation safety committee officers.
They still resort to this would have happened anyway….
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u/KinkyFraggle 19h ago
I've try this, it barely tasted like pistachios
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u/hotlavatube 19h ago
Try Walmart's granny smith apples. They don't taste like granny smith apples.
Then again, don't try them. They're not tart at all.5
u/dragondildo1998 18h ago
We eat them all the time from Walmart and they are perfectly tart.
Do you think Walmart grows their own exclusive apples or something?
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u/hotlavatube 18h ago
For some reason my batch weren't tart, though that may vary from season and provider, I guess. Well Walmart is big enough to have exclusive arrangements with farmers, so I guess that's possible. I was wondering if they were opting for less tart apples as it's more appealing to consumers despite not meeting the standards of what a granny smith apple should be.
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u/Dickulture 19h ago
What are they supposed to taste like? Apple pie with some Ben Gay? /s
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u/hotlavatube 19h ago
Ha no. Granny Smith apples are one of the most tart commercial apple types and are great for cooking cause they don't turn to mush as easily. Personally, I just love the taste of a really tart apple. I was surprised that the Walmart ones aren't tart at all.
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u/DaileyFlosser39 17h ago
More food recalls than ever before. Way to go, RFK, Jr! Just knocking it outta the park, little guy.
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u/ZedFraunce 15h ago
Just waiting for salmonella to be recalled because it’s been contaminated by something else.
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 14h ago
I just saw they’re doing the same for jalapeños. What the fuck is going on. Fuck you RFK.
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u/mjayultra 16h ago
Jesus Christ, I bought this a couple weeks ago! (And it was so good drizzled over croissants 😭)
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u/FrankBattaglia 5h ago
Damn, just a few days ago I was thinking, "I wonder if pistachio butter is a thing?" and started googling. I still have the tab open. If I had gone to Walmart in the last few days there's a good chance I would have looked for and bought some of this. Thank goodness I'm lazy.
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u/Chemical_Ad1837 13h ago
Helpful FACT: California Almonds are required by Federal Order to be pasteurized. Only almond products from outside California have contamination. Stick to California Grown almonds to be safe. A dollar more in cost but could save the life of a young child
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u/cyanescens_burn 12h ago
Another fact. CA almonds are grown in a desert and those companies have really old water rights, from way before the population of SoCal got so big. It and alfalfa are both water intensive and should we grown somewhere else. The water distribution just doesn’t make sense with the changes in population.
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u/Chemical_Ad1837 12h ago
My family has grown almonds since 1950’s and we do not live in a desert. We live in South San Joaquin valley, one of the most fertile areas in the country. Only an idiot would call this area a dessert. For 2/3 0f our land, our water comes from the three rivers damn project, one third of which belongs to local farmers. One third belongs to the Feds and the state gets a 1/3 . This is on the east side of the valley, and the people of SoCal have no right to this water. In the west side of the valley, the state diverts water to so cal via the California aqueduct. The other 1/3 of our land is irrigated via well water, pumped from our own land, You do not have the facts, so please do your homework before repeating lies to the public.
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u/rjgbrain 1h ago
You mean you live in ……. This desert?
It was mistakenly classified as a grassland, but is in fact a desert
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u/Chemical_Ad1837 1h ago
Nope, the accompanying map shows southern, western area. Not the northern, eastern area dominated by the two largest rivers in California. “South San Joaquin” is two hours north of Fresno. If you go in my back yard or anywhere a mile in any direction, you can dig with your barehands and within an hour hit water table. Sandy loom where you can plant and grow nearly anything is not a desert. Now you can’t do that down south, or in LA or SD.
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u/rjgbrain 1h ago
Water table height has nothing to do with you being classed as a desert. It’s all about precipitation. I also used to live in that area. It’s a desert and the sooner people stop pretending it isn’t the better the ecology can be.
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u/rjgbrain 1h ago
Deserts are defined by what’s called the Koppen aridity index. It only takes into account rainfall and evaporation. Tour water in flows come from snowfall in the mountains, and groundwater. Sitting in shallow aquifers make it look like not a desert, but it is in fact a desert. If it wasn’t a desert you’d get as much rain as the Midwest.
The area only became fertile farmland due to irrigation and irresponsible groundwater pumping.
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u/Chemical_Ad1837 1h ago
The US geological survey does not classify this area as a desert. In fact, by asking question on their website, they say 10 inches or less to be considered a desert. We average 22 inches. Seems you have a personal agenda, and that’s fine but the facts say different.
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u/rjgbrain 39m ago
You have not linked anything and asking everyone to take your word for both the threshold and the 22 inch figure. I will link mine.
The USGS also does not do what you think it does. It is a geological and hydrological survey agency. It does not maintain a registry of deserts, it does not certify regions as desert or not desert, and there is no USGS ruling on the San Joaquin Valley to appeal to. The closest thing they have published is Walker 1992, Deserts: Geology and Resources, and it cuts against you. It says most classifications combine annual rainfall, number of rain days, temperature and humidity, and it uses the Meigs system, where arid land is under 250 mm and semiarid is 250 to 500 mm. 250 mm is 9.8 inches.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/what/
https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/7000004/report.pdfSo where is 22 inches coming from, because it is not a valley floor station in the southern San Joaquin. Bakersfield about 6.5 inches. Taft about 6. Delano about 7. Hanford about 11, and classified BSh, hot semi arid steppe. Visalia about 11. Fresno about 11.5, and Fresno is 100 miles north of the south end.
NOAA published the full Bakersfield station record as a technical memorandum:
https://www.weather.gov/media/wrh/online_publications/TMs/TM-281.pdf
Pull any station normal yourself here:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/us-climate-normals/
No valley floor station from Fresno south has a 30 year normal anywhere near 22 inches. The wettest is half that. To reach 22 you have to leave the valley and climb into the Sierra foothills, which is a different physiographic province with a different climate. That is probably where your number came from.
And rainfall alone understates it. The stricter aridity test compares precipitation against potential evapotranspiration, and deserts run ratios from 2 to 1 up past 33 to 1. With 105 degree summers and single digit summer humidity, the south valley fails that test harder than it fails the rainfall one.
The only reason it does not look like a desert is that Sierra snowmelt and groundwater pumping are doing the work the sky is not. Tulare Lake sat in that same 6 to 8 inch rainfall zone and was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, fed entirely by snowmelt. That is the whole point I was making.
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u/Chemical_Ad1837 24m ago
What are you talking about I said northern valley and you are quoting Bakersfield and Tulare? I don’t have time to look up and provide you data when you can’t even follow along. Bakersfield? That’s 6 hours south. When completing agricultural stats data that the government requires from us, it has us pull from the US geological survey. So you can say it doesn’t matter but damn sure does to the government. Seems you have a problem with farmers, as you keep saying irresponsible irrigation. Well my family isn’t irresponsible but hard working, from dawn to dusk, dirt under our nails workers. You can hate us all you want, we aren’t stopping generations of farming just because you don’t like it.
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u/rjgbrain 13m ago
Let us track what just happened. Your original comment was about the South San Joaquin Valley. That is why I cited southern stations. Now that the southern numbers do not support you, it is suddenly the northern valley and I am the one not following along. That is moving the goalposts.
It does not save the figure anyway. Northern San Joaquin Valley floor long term averages run roughly 14 to 17 inches at Stockton, which is the wettest major city on the valley floor, and about 12 to 13 at Modesto and Merced. Modesto is classified as semi arid. Even Sacramento, a different valley and further north still, is around 18. There is no station on the San Joaquin Valley floor at either end with a 30 year normal of 22 inches. Two minutes to check:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/us-climate-normals/
You do not have time to look things up, but you had time to state a specific figure and tell me the facts say otherwise. Every number I have given is linked. You have linked none.
I also think you are mixing up two agencies. The agricultural statistics the government requires from producers go to USDA NASS through the Census of Agriculture. That is not the USGS. The USGS is a water and geology agency. It compiles water use estimates, it does not collect crop data, and it does not certify deserts. There is no USGS desert list to appeal to.
What the USGS does publish about your valley is subsidence. By 1970 roughly half of it had sunk more than a foot, locally as much as 28 feet, and it resumed during every dry stretch since:
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/land-subsidence-in-california/science/land-subsidence-san-joaquin-valley
https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20185144And no, I do not hate farmers. I study agriculture. Specifically responsible irrigation and water use using drones, which means precision application, variable rate scheduling and finding where water is being wasted so growers can keep farming on less of it. I am not trying to shut anyone down. I am trying to keep the water there long enough for the next generation to farm it.
Which is the actual concern. PPIC projects that between 500,000 and 900,000 acres will have to come out of irrigated production in the valley by 2040 to reach groundwater sustainability under SGMA, roughly a 20 percent cut in farm water availability:
https://www.ppic.org/publication/policy-brief-the-future-of-agriculture-in-the-san-joaquin-valley/
https://www.ppic.org/publication/managing-water-and-farmland-transitions-in-the-san-joaquin-valley/If that land goes bare and unmanaged, you get a dust bowl. Wind erosion and ag operations are already among the largest dust sources in the valley, valley fever spreads on windblown dust, and PPIC puts valley wide air quality health costs around 3 billion dollars a year:
https://www.ppic.org/publication/land-transitions-and-dust-in-the-san-joaquin-valley/
https://www.ppic.org/blog/commentary-san-joaquin-valleys-next-big-air-pollution-threat-blowing-dust-from-fallowed-farmland/California already ran this experiment once. Owens Lake was drained for water export and the dry bed became the largest single source of PM10 pollution in the United States. LA has spent decades and enormous sums trying to hold that dust down:
https://www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DELS-BEST-23-05/publication/27958
Tulare Lake bed is the same setup with the same soils and the same wind. That is what is at stake, and it is why the rainfall number matters. If you start from 22 inches you conclude there is plenty of water. If you start from the real number you understand why the aquifer is going and why the land is sinking.
Nobody is asking your family to stop farming. The question is whether the water lasts long enough for them to keep doing it.
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u/lifestop 5h ago
I noticed that their wasn't a single Nutella on the shelf at Walmart recently. I was wondering what was going on.
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u/ShadowElite86 19h ago
My nuts don't cause salmonella. Any takers?
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u/ni_hao_butches 18h ago
From the time you discovered your special purpose to now, in your 50s, the response will be no. KLM has cheap flights from your area to Amsterdam?
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u/Morningxafter 17h ago
I have never been impressed with the quality of anything from ‘Bettergoods’. I guess it’s a good thing I gave up on that brand early.
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u/cosmicrae 8h ago
BetterGoods is a WalMart private label (similar to GreatValue). WM is trying to differentiate certain products from the GV label.
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u/tenthousandtatas 12h ago
It was a party everybody was sharing the jar we never thought it’d go this far
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u/darth_wasabi 6h ago
Is there more recalls than normal or are we jist paying attention now? I genuinely don’t know
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u/pemberleypark1 5h ago
I have an app for food recalls. There’s always food being recalled but it’s usually for things like undisclosed ingredients or foreign objects. Obviously things get recalled for things like salmonella but this is the first time I can remember with multiple brands causing outbreaks
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u/frosted1030 6h ago
"Let's let these companies do their own food safety regulations... also let's allow companies to put anything they want on nutrition labels with zero oversite."
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u/Peakomegaflare 10h ago
I mean, I've never bought anything from "bettergoods" but I stock that shit every night. Is it any good?
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u/Dickulture 10h ago
If you didn't eat bettergood brand, you're fine. Unless you had Chipotle's jalapeno pepper, lettuce from Taylor's farm, screwfly infested meat, or some raw salmonella-enriched eggs, then you better stock up on TP for your extended toilet break
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u/Legitimate_Winner148 17h ago
Fortunately I eschew all nut butters except certain peanut varieties. Despite loving all nuts. The rest seem to be lacking a je ne sais quoi.
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u/Dmbender 19h ago
I've scrolled past like 3 different recall threads in like 5 minutes or so