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FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

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Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

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Apologies if this was in a prior thread but detection and washing are irrelevant when the parasite is dead.

How Food Irradiation Works

https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/food-irradiation/index....

https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?...

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

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It was fine for decades, I wonder what changed. Maybe the republicans did something stupid like putting a bunch of incompetent jackasses in charge.

It wasn't fine for decades. Both democrats and republicans allowed regulatory capture to take place.

Perhaps. But did democrats famously take a “chainsaw for ‘government waste’” to all major federal agencies? No. That was a handful of Republican edgelords.

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

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I had this exact same epiphany when going to one of my local "farmers markets" last saturday. I noticed a suspicious amount of vegetables that should've died during the last few weeks of this spiraling heat and they were all perfectly green. It made me suspicious and I found myself thinking about bylaws for farmers markets. I don't think there are any; so I'm sure there is nothing stopping vendors from just reselling…

In Florida there have been some articles talking about how some local farmers markets produce may actually be the rejected produce from the southern grocery chain Publix, rather than local growers selling directly. https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fab...

Where I am, all the farmers markets are full of produce marked with the local grocery chain, or boxes from mexican grocery chains. I suspect they all "fell off the truck", since there are exactly zero of these crops in this region.

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was fine for decades, I wonder what changed. Maybe the republicans did something stupid like putting a bunch of incompetent jackasses in charge.

It wasn't fine for decades. Both democrats and republicans allowed regulatory capture to take place.

You can track food outbreaks by administration pretty easily. This isn’t hidden knowledge.

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

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I've been buying local produce, when I can. I signed up for a CSA share in the spring and get an assortment of fresh veggies every week. The same place does have a local farm stand, so you don't have to sign up for the whole summer if you just want to buy some veggies. There are a couple of "Saturday market" type things in my town, where people have booths selling produce also, but from what I can see there is no req…

I had this exact same epiphany when going to one of my local "farmers markets" last saturday. I noticed a suspicious amount of vegetables that should've died during the last few weeks of this spiraling heat and they were all perfectly green. It made me suspicious and I found myself thinking about bylaws for farmers markets. I don't think there are any; so I'm sure there is nothing stopping vendors from just reselling…

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Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this exact same epiphany when going to one of my local "farmers markets" last saturday. I noticed a suspicious amount of vegetables that should've died during the last few weeks of this spiraling heat and they were all perfectly green. It made me suspicious and I found myself thinking about bylaws for farmers markets. I don't think there are any; so I'm sure there is nothing stopping vendors from just reselling…

There’s some rather infamous examples I’ve seen recently of people unpacking grocery store bins at farmers markets. There is no provenance around the origin of the goods in most markets, more common of a problem than people might think. In Central Texas when peaches are in season people set up roadside stalls, but there’s no guarantee you are getting an actual local grown peach instead of whatever was on the shelf at…

Thankfully most of us have a provenance detector attached to our faces. If you've ever worked with freshly harvested produce, the aroma is, well... distinct, which most store-shelf products aren't. Not preferable, but a semi-reliable fallback.

I find most in-store produce genuinely symbolic of the real thing. Makes me think the growth was due to coercion and mentalism. A palpable snapshot of reality, with a high price.

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

#27

Apologies if this was in a prior thread but detection and washing are irrelevant when the parasite is dead. How Food Irradiation Works https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/food-irradiation/index.... https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?...

> The process is safe and effective.

What interesting phrasing.

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

#28

I've been buying local produce, when I can. I signed up for a CSA share in the spring and get an assortment of fresh veggies every week. The same place does have a local farm stand, so you don't have to sign up for the whole summer if you just want to buy some veggies. There are a couple of "Saturday market" type things in my town, where people have booths selling produce also, but from what I can see there is no req…

I had this exact same epiphany when going to one of my local "farmers markets" last saturday. I noticed a suspicious amount of vegetables that should've died during the last few weeks of this spiraling heat and they were all perfectly green. It made me suspicious and I found myself thinking about bylaws for farmers markets. I don't think there are any; so I'm sure there is nothing stopping vendors from just reselling…

My local farmers market has different colored table cloths to indicate the source of the vegetables. I’m sure sure if or how it’s checked.

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

#29

Apologies if this was in a prior thread but detection and washing are irrelevant when the parasite is dead. How Food Irradiation Works https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/food-irradiation/index.... https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?...

Irradiating enough to kill cyclospora oocysts would ruin the lettuce though.

Re: FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was fine for decades, I wonder what changed. Maybe the republicans did something stupid like putting a bunch of incompetent jackasses in charge.

It wasn't fine for decades. Both democrats and republicans allowed regulatory capture to take place.

yes, Democrats put ideologues in charge of the EPA, took a 'chainsaw' to government, and gutted the agencies.

you're so right.

go peddle your mediocrity somewhere else.

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