https://www.storkxx.com/2010/12/cross-contamination-fear-spurs-produce-recall/ Breaking news for everyone's consumption Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4&lxb_maple_bar_source=lxb_maple_bar_source https://www.storkxx.com/2010/12/cross-contamination-fear-spurs-produce-recall/#comment-8698 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:14:26 +0000 http://foodsafetynews.default.wp.marler.lexblog.com/2010/12/30/cross_contamination_fear_spurs_produce_recall/#comment-8698 “Trust the govt at your own risk.”
Yeah, ’cause it’s the “govt” who will be selling you and your family, at a premium price, authentic farmers market produce smeared with dirt and feces. ]]> https://www.storkxx.com/2010/12/cross-contamination-fear-spurs-produce-recall/#comment-8697 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:32:49 +0000 http://foodsafetynews.default.wp.marler.lexblog.com/2010/12/30/cross_contamination_fear_spurs_produce_recall/#comment-8697 Doc mudd want all your food to be processed through large govt controlled facilities. Yeah, like the govt has ever been able to do anything successfully.
We small farmers are aware of the cleanliness of our product and we self police. The larger corporations has many employees that you hope washed their hands before they left the bathroom. That is if they were taught proper hygiene when they came here from whatever country.
Your local frmers market is the place to be able to get truly fresh and clean food. We don’t have lawyers on payroll to handle potential problems therefore we prefer to ensure we don’t in the first place.
It appears to me that after reading some of these articles it is the organic farms/processing facilities that have trouble with contamination not the sustainable farms. As far as I am concerned you can keep you animal waste away from my farm.
I pity Doc Mudd as he is being misled and prefers to be a sheeple being told what to do by govt officials. Trust the govt at your own risk. ]]> https://www.storkxx.com/2010/12/cross-contamination-fear-spurs-produce-recall/#comment-8696 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:42:52 +0000 http://foodsafetynews.default.wp.marler.lexblog.com/2010/12/30/cross_contamination_fear_spurs_produce_recall/#comment-8696 A very professional response by J&D. They’ve promptly initiated a broad voluntary recall (emphasis on ‘voluntary’) and a issued a credible acknowledgement of the vital importance of consumer safety and the inestimable value of customer confidence. As J&D explained:
“We’re all seeing increased inspections by regulators and health officials here in the U.S. and Canada, and that’s positive because it helps further ensure public health,” Bassetti said in a prepared statement. “We’ve already implemented immediate measures to make sure we minimize the likelihood of this re-occurring.” For example, the company said that upon learning of the test in Quebec, Bassetti ordered the shut down of all production lines; re-sanitized the production lines; increased manual inspections; and implemented additional product rinse steps.”
“Bassetti said be has also brought in outside consultants to review and advise the company on additional microbiological sampling and its food safety protocols.”
“We have a good track record, but we’ll bring our expectations and standards to even bigger levels,” he said.”
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That’s exceptional committment to quality and safety.
Don’t expect your little ‘local’ hobby farmer to step up and take such responsible measures, neither to prevent nor to remedy a potential food safety problem. If the S.510 debate accomplished anything, it certainly helped us ‘know our farmer’ as someone dedicated to dangerous corner-cutting, someone rabidly opposed to food safety and someone fiercely indifferent to consumer welfare…if it impacts their grubby bottom line, that is. From the raw milk dialogue we learn the prefered ‘remedial’ tactic of the incriminated small producer is to ignore, dismiss and deny, deny, deny.
Buy dubious over-priced stuff from some shady ‘small producer’ and take your chances with your family’s safety. The precept of caveat emptor has been carefully preserved by S.510’s Tester amendment to validate the entitlement of our noisy selfish hobby farm lobby. That’s not in your interest and it’s profoundly inconsiderate of your family’s safety. But that’s the hobby farm agenda – you and I are important to them only so long as we generously hand over our grocery money without a fuss. ]]> https://www.storkxx.com/2010/12/cross-contamination-fear-spurs-produce-recall/#comment-8695 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:08:07 +0000 http://foodsafetynews.default.wp.marler.lexblog.com/2010/12/30/cross_contamination_fear_spurs_produce_recall/#comment-8695 I called and well…they want me to call back on Monday—I JUST ate a bowl of kale before being told about this and they want me to call back on Monday cause they all took off for the New year—lol—if Im sick Im gonna get ugly lol ]]> https://www.storkxx.com/2010/12/cross-contamination-fear-spurs-produce-recall/#comment-8694 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:34:19 +0000 http://foodsafetynews.default.wp.marler.lexblog.com/2010/12/30/cross_contamination_fear_spurs_produce_recall/#comment-8694 I don’t want to sound TOO naive, though… Of course I realize that we all, including the majority of food geeks like myself, will continue to get the bulk of our food, the majority of our calories, etc. from industrial sources into the foreseeable future. Such is the current state of our farming/food production/sale world, unfortunately.
Of course, the reason for that is the infrastructure for year-round production within a couple hours of all major cities doesn’t exist, and the ideas of building hundreds/thousands of square miles of greenhouses in the Upper Midwest or growing food inside skyscrapers under lights seems too expensive/energy-intensive/comical to take seriously (at least it does now)…
However, if people keep going to restaurants that advertise from whom they procure their food, and buying local food in other ways, in other words, creating demand, more of that will be made available. It took us a long time for us to start eating the way we do now, and it’ll keep changing over time. It’ll change for the better, but only if consumers demand local, high quality, foods that are as fresh and alive as possible. ]]> https://www.storkxx.com/2010/12/cross-contamination-fear-spurs-produce-recall/#comment-8693 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:15:50 +0000 http://foodsafetynews.default.wp.marler.lexblog.com/2010/12/30/cross_contamination_fear_spurs_produce_recall/#comment-8693 Yet another example of food being contaminated at at a large, centralized processing facility that distributes nationally.
Buy your food from local farmers whenever possible and this is much less likely to happen to you! ]]>