Increase in Food Recalls Not Your Imagination

It seems like there is a new food recall just about every week—will we ever be able to eat romaine lettuce again? Will the Caesar salad have to be redefined? Will anything be safe to eat ever again? What with the internet and memes that won’t die and the 24 hour news cycle, the uptick in recalls could just be your imagination. Except that it isn’t. According to Time Magazine, food recalls in the U.S. have increased 10% between 2015 and 2018—that’s a lot in 3 years.  The peak was 2016, with just over 900 recalls. Has there been an increase in Food Recalls? Did something change? Maybe. But probably not entirely in a bad way. For one thing, advances in science and use of the scientific testing and tracing (often tracing the unique biological footprint of an individual bacteria strain) have allowed officials to more quickly and accurately locate the source of pathogens than ever before. This is akin to putting Sherlock Holmes on the case, and…

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