Emma Peaslee
speaker
237 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Jul
Emma Peaslee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For example, say a farmer is walking through the fields and all of a sudden they notice a pile of animal poop.
Right next to a beautiful green head of lettuce.
These were real questions that Jim and his colleagues debated between themselves and also with the farmers.
Jim says the farming industry supported these rules in theory, but farmers also didn't want to have to take unnecessary precautions.
Yeah.
The problem is these mass outbreaks keep happening.
If you go to the FDA's website right now, you can see the warnings year after year.
Thousands of people are still getting sick from salmonella and onions, from hepatitis and strawberries, E. coli and spinach, even while FDA inspections are happening.
When Jim Corny first heard about this recent cyclist war outbreak, his initial reaction was...
Oh boy, here we go again.
And we asked him, why?
After all this work that the government has done to overhaul the rules when it comes to farm safety, all the inspections that are happening, all the new safety standards, the poop rules, all of that, why doesn't it seem like we're making progress?
In fact, some of the most important safety standards were only finalized just two years ago.
They have to do with how clean a farm's water has to be and what to do if there's runoff from an animal farm nearby.
Some farms don't even have to comply with the new water standards until 2027.
But right now, the FDA is not even inspecting farms every three years.
The GAO recently published a big report on how the FDA was falling way short on inspections.
But Jim says even if the FDA had the budget to conduct all the inspections it needs to, and even if companies themselves conduct more audits and safety checks, which a lot of them do, that still wouldn't be the end of all these outbreaks.
Because there's another, even harder problem to solve.
The FDA pinpointed the outbreak to a farm in California, and when they sent agents out to investigate one of the orchards... Come to find out, directly adjacent is a poultry house, you know?
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