Don't you love it when you get an e-coli food recall notice about two months after you purchased the food?

@4meAndyou Acceptable levels of poop and other contaminates. There was a user on EP who was poisoned by a candy bar and I believe she sued Cadburry.

@4meAndyou I read an article decades ago about what the FDA allows in foods that they inspect, so many pieces of insect parts per a certain weight of food, mouse droppings, rodent hairs etc. Raw apple cider that hasn’t been pasteurized was found to have e-coli in it...investigation found that there were cows that had walked and pooped under apple trees and that the e-coli can seep down into the roots and travel up into the sap to the apples. Some cases of contamination of meats have been suspected to have been the result of sabotage by rival companies wanting to buy out meat plants after people die and the company name has been dragged through the mud by the media. The rival company has sent people into work in those plants and contaminated the meat with genetically-engineered germs that sicken and kill people with weaker immune systems. Then after it’s all over the plant sells for a fraction of what it was worth before and the rival company snaps it up.

@cherokeepatti The meat industry is completely controlled by under 10 companies.

Why do we trust the FDA? The people who make decisions on products can buy stock in the companies before or after they pass products. Bit of a conflict of interest there! I bet the people on the board are selling off their Perdue stock now but when Perdue was making billions on Oxycontin and thousands of people were dying they held onto their stock.

@Degbeme Yes, I have to go in to the store to get a refund. But they can't refund my gag reflex, which is active now whenever I view that open bag.

@4meAndyou Understandable. Tape that sucker shut!! 😐️

@bowman81 I think I will return both. I feel so barfy when I see that I've already used part of the flour, and I have no idea if the e-coli is in the bottom of that same bag.

@4meAndyou It seems that we routinely eat salads and such that get recalled long after they are gone....and are left wondering if we had the particular "lot numbers" in question.

@bowman81 Exactly. Remember the romaine lettuce scare a year or so ago? How many people could, potentially, die from delayed notifications?

@ISpeakTheTruth I can't remember for sure, but it may have been chowder. I can't use real milk or cream, so I thicken it with flour.

@cherokeepatti I've used it for years.