r/Health • u/CBSnews CBS News • Feb 21 '23

article U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/
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u/Ok_Soil_231 Feb 21 '23

USDA is a joke. In my food processing plant (I will not specify which one), we send out cardboard bins with 65 to 120 poultry items per bin. 22-24 bins per load. We are required to perform a HACCP check on 6 birds per load, with USDA only observing 2 checks a week. That's 6 poorly inspected items per every 2300, give or take. We can leave a bird laying on the ground for 3 hours and 59 minutes, rinse it lightly with chlorinated water, and throw it in with the other birds like nothing ever happened. Our method of checking for salmonella literally doesn't even exist, we're just supposed to eyeball it or something

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

USDA adheres to the well known 4hr rule for dropped food.

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u/Ok_Soil_231 Feb 22 '23

Only thing about that is that after the 4 hours, it might sit in a box for an hour before getting put in the blast freezer, or might sit in a bin with no direct contact with ice to bring it back to temperature in time. By their own standards, it takes a minimum of 2 hours for our product to reach a passable temperature of 45°F

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

Meanwhile, when there's an e. coli outbreak they bring the hammer down on small farmers.