The linked article has a lot of food recalls that I completely missed! I did wind up having a bag of Whole Foods brand 365 carrots that were recalled a couple of weeks ago. Gee, if you can’t trust Whole Foods with perfectly healthy bagged carrots… Turns out the store brand carrots from my local H-E-B were not on the recall list.
How have you interacted with or been affected by the heaping pile of recent food recalls? What’s your strategy for avoiding buying these items or even making sure you hear about them before you are hovering over the toidy -- or worse?
The FDA website has the option to sign up for email alerts-- do you do that?
I work at a grocery/big box store and every day we get a stack of recall notices. That’s how I usually hear about it, along with the TV/radio/etc. PSA’s everyone else gets.
The reality is that there has been a lot of recalls every year for many years. I think the last few have been better publicized than in the past which makes it seem like there are more but actually just makes the public better informed.
Another opportunity for backasswards recognition slips away… dang.
Hmmm… you’re probably right about that. But the raw carrot recall from Whole Foods struck me as unexpected. And the raw onions at McDonald’s (not strictly a recall)-- I don’t remember anything like that before.
I’ve been seeing recalls on raw vegetables like that for years (particularly lettuce and spinach), almost always due to E. coli contamination (which was the specific issue for both the carrots at Whole Foods, and the McDonald’s onions).
The issue, AIUI, is that the vegetables can get contaminated through irrigation water.
This is what happens when food companies get to police themselves. The best part is they wait until most of the product is sold before issuing the recall.
Turns out the store brand carrots from my local H-E-B were not on the recall list.
-- or worse?
