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Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Re: Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Post by astrodust »

buildsjets wrote: post #9
sickofparadox wrote: post #5

Does anyone think there is room for a D2C company to start curing its own meats and deliver cold cuts to people's doorstep?

Startup cured deli meats sounds like a recipe for distributed delivery of salmonella.

Could include some locally sourced "raw water" and offer options for unpasteurized, unrefrigerated milk.

Re: Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Post by geodel »

buildsjets wrote: post #9
sickofparadox wrote: post #5

Does anyone think there is room for a D2C company to start curing its own meats and deliver cold cuts to people's doorstep?

Startup cured deli meats sounds like a recipe for distributed delivery of salmonella.

Add AI infused Kubernetes to the recipe and a16z will be all over to invest in startup like this.

Re: Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Post by geodel »

astrodust wrote: post #11
buildsjets wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Startup cured deli meats sounds like a recipe for distributed delivery of salmonella.

Could include some locally sourced "raw water" and offer options for unpasteurized, unrefrigerated milk.

Yes, I'd also like to have some small batch organic snake oil. Given its tremendous health benefits Big Pharma and their lobbyists in DC are choking the supply of it.

Re: Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Post by matwood »

jgeada wrote: post #10
engineer_22 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From this, and linked articles on New York Times, the suggestion is laxed food safety standards are endemic across the entire processed food industry.

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The article paints a picture of lack of enforcement, not regulation.

Re: Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Post by matwood »

darby_nine wrote: post #16
matwood wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article paints a picture of lack of enforcement, not regulation.

How do you distinguish these behaviors?

There are a lot of regulations. They were inspected. They failed inspections. Then the inspectors did nothing. All the additional regulations can be added that we want, but if the inspectors don't close the plant, they are meaningless.

Re: Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Post by mrmetanoia »

sickofparadox wrote: post #5

Does anyone think there is room for a D2C company to start curing its own meats and deliver cold cuts to people's doorstep?

https://www.foodindustry.com/articles/list-of-direct-to-cons...

Looks like several exist.

Re: Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak

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Post by nerdjon »

As more has come out about this, it is quite disappointing. I used to swear by Boars Head and would choose the store I am going too based on if they carried it.

A mistake happening and causing a serious problem is still obviously bad, but is one thing. But from what they are describing I have no idea how this was able to continue running.

I know right now it is stopping me from getting basically any deli meat or similar products from any brand.

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