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0 pointsShivetya9y ago0 comments

because we crack down on and have to on companies selling food products when people are getting sick. look at all the recalls companies do with just possible contamination.

the professional food industry knows damn well there are no acceptable risks. if people are getting sick entire batch numbers are yanked from retail.

the one time a big company purposefully ignored resulted in jail time for executives from Peanut Corporation which knew they were selling contaminated product. As in, people are getting sick and they did not pull it

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darawk9y ago· 2 in thread

Ya, but it seems to me that's exactly what happened here. They pulled the batch numbers that were contaminated.

I guess I don't really see the difference. This isn't unprecedented in the packaged food industry, and it doesn't seem like they're handling it any worse than any other company has.

st3v3r9y ago

It is in that Soylent used an experimental ingredient which had not been shown to be appropriate for this use.

nkristoffersen9y ago

Which ingredient is expiremental? The one that is "generally recognized as safe" by the FDA? Doesn't sound very expiremental to me if the FDA has already fully tested and formulated a rating for it.

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