Failed recall

[bill_schubert]

Last night I received a notice from Hello Fresh saying that onions in one of their meals had been recalled for possibly having salmonella.  We had just finished a nice dinner that contained grilled red onion.  The onions were cooked enough so there was no danger and I felt fine as did Dana so no worries.

This morning I looked at the message again just to see if the one I had was actually in the recall batch.  Here is the relevant line from the message:

If you are in possession of one of these meals from 07/07/2021 to 09/08/2021 please discard.

The message was sent on 10/30.  

Nothing in this was actually attempting to be helpful.  This was a lawyer message, a CYA, a litigation bookmark.  

'See, we did the right thing'.

Every time I hear about cutting funds from U.S. Food and Drug, FDA, Osha, all the rest of the Regan era programs that were gutted I think of this kind of thing and wonder how many people were hurt when it is within our capabilities to prevent the problem.  

Sigh.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Well I'm glad you didn't get sick, yesterday or back in the summer