What's Up With All These Food Recalls

Session 5

Session 5

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In the last 6 months ,I have never seen so much food recalls, everything from fruit to vegetables to everything in between. Another one this morning. What's going on in the food industry.
 
Session 5 said:
What's going on in the food industry.
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Key word is industry. Profits before anything else, especially safety, because safety is expensive. It's cheaper to issue an occasional recall than to ensure everything going out the door is safe because doing so slows things down, thusly eating into the profits. Gotta feed the shareholders before the consumers after all.
 
Don O said:
I can handle food recalls. It’s doors falling off airplanes that concerns me. :run:
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Got that right. Have a problem on your car.... most times you can get over to the shoulder or get it to a mechanic. In a plane.... too many times someones getting hurt or worse.
 
gball said:
Key word is industry. Profits before anything else, especially safety, because safety is expensive. It's cheaper to issue an occasional recall than to ensure everything going out the door is safe because doing so slows things down, thusly eating into the profits. Gotta feed the shareholders before the consumers after all.
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Yes I agree, not pointing the fingers here, but both our countries trade goods every day, Our safety regulations are more stringent , in the food arena than those in the U.S. about 99% is coming from U.S. sources, many of these goods are showing up here.
 
Session 5 said:
Yea, how does a guy forget ,to put the retaining bolts in the door..
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In this particular case.... it was a sub contractor doing the work. They dropped the ball... so to speak. Not totally Boeing's fault other than the "buck" has to stop somewhere. Boeing still has the responsibility to put a solid/safe plane into the air. Add in, Boeing has had too many situations in the past few years. That points to a problem that frankly is solvable. Bad things are still going to happen...... but the problems they've been having to me are avoidable.
 
gball said:
Key word is industry. Profits before anything else, especially safety, because safety is expensive. It's cheaper to issue an occasional recall than to ensure everything going out the door is safe because doing so slows things down, thusly eating into the profits. Gotta feed the shareholders before the consumers after all.
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Oh.... you referring to the exploding Pintos from several decades ago. Ford lawyers and money people determined it was less expensive to pay the lawsuits than recall the car and fix the problem.
 
Don O said:
And another one today.

www.foxbusiness.com

Plane lands at Buffalo airport after door falls off mid-flight

The FAA said a small plane landed at an airport in the Buffalo, New York, area after its pilot "reported losing the left rear passenger door" mid-flight.
www.foxbusiness.com www.foxbusiness.com
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Be interesting to see what the FAA discovers on this one. Could be anything from structural failure to the pilot didn't get the door latched and locked properly before taking off.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
I love flying. Thousands of times safer than driving anywhere. You will note no crashes or fatalities. How many on the roads last weekend?
I can't wait to fly again!
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One difference between flying and driving is. When a plane goes down it’s 200+ people. Makes big news. A fatal car crash is 1-4 or so. Doesn’t even make local news in Chicago land.
 
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