This is a sort of “meta news” post. Product recalls happen all the time but I’ve noticed lately that my feed is just filled with more and more and more and more of them happening sometimes multiple times a day. Everything from ground pepper to every type of chicken you can imagine to ice cream to whatever else am I crazy or does it seem like practically every category of food product is suddenly getting recalled lately due to dangerous contamination?

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Almost 150 recalls in grocery items so far in 2024, versus 300 total 2023, so not much more then last year anyway.

    That does include the drug recalls I mentioned in the other comment.

    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Huh, i guess the algorithm just decided it was my time to see them all. Made it feel much more frequent

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        Nope, you were right, it was just from 5 years ago rather than last year or 2 years ago that this increased happened.

        I just left another comment explaining that there are high increases grocery recalls specifically because so much more of our food is coming from other countries with substandard manufacturing practices according to the FDA.