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I despise companies that don't list all their ingredients, and not just because I have allergies. It's just so disrespectful!

I'm a tired office worker at fresh produce warehouse for a lot of East coast deliveries. Most fruits and vegetables pass FDA inspection. The main problem is the molding in the old refrigeration trucks.

The same thing is wrong with food as everything else: Profit is king.

Shocked you didn't cover the areas that the two agencies get super confusing about which handles products like one will handle cooked chicken and the other raw chicken and dumb stuff like that. Jon Oliver has a good episode all about this topic.

More reasons to spike the food prices, under the terms/reasons, labeledas "cost of labor" and "manufacturing cost". All financial burdens are shifted to the consumer end.

Recalls on the rise cause nobody gives a $hit anymore!

Packaged food is actually one of the rare examples where the industry has set higher standards than the government. The FDA regulations and inspections are pretty much the baseline of food safety. Any national distributors or retailers will require food production facilities they purchase from to have additional certifications like SQF. The SQF standards and inspections are more rigorous than federal regulations. Every food producer worries more about the private inspections than government inspections, you’d have to basically be running your plant like The Jungle to get shut down by the FDA.

These companies hire the lowest cost workers, who really don’t care about food safety. Also, our food in America is total crap.

thank God for family farms, at least you know where it comes from

“We found more toxins than nutrients” Will always stick with me

1000 sick. 6 dead. 400,000,000 people eating x3 per day. I’d say we are doing pretty good all things considered.

There's a lot of thing to do to avoid such food recalls that happen after incidents eg. implementation of HACCP, GMP, segregation between allergen and non-allergens, and also having a knowledge of food defense. And yes, those procedures were written in blood, just like safety procedures.

I think this should be a good reason why the government should give proper funding and proper anti-food contamination inspections to every food distributing company out there as an example.

Keep those videos coming!

Informative content, thank you

Love the info

Some of these companies make it quite difficult to report though. A couple months ago we opened a bottle of cranberry juice from ocean spray that had a very strong sulfer smell. We had to dump the whole bottle, it was horribly chemically tasting/smelling and somehow or other got worse after 10 minutes of being poured. Not sure the chemical process of that. It was 9 pm. My husband was on the phone "talking" to their automated services for over half an hour and got nowhere.

Thankfully here in Slovenia we have still lot of home grown food, living on the farm is just awesome 👍😊

i found plastic in my trader joes granola bar last year

the ingredients thing is very serious. i drank a "dairy-free" protein shake that immediately made me sick. i have milk protein intolerance, and it turns out it contained milk proteins. there's a reason doing stuff like that is illegal.