Jeff Guo
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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This new law, it basically supercharged the FDA.
It gave it a bunch of new powers, including the power to finally send inspectors onto farms to make sure that the farmers are following the rules when it comes to food safety.
Jim moves his entire family 3,000 miles across the country.
And when he lands in Washington, his mission is to help figure out what should be the standard for keeping fruits and vegetables safe on farms.
What should the FDA's inspectors, you know, actually inspect for?
Also, things that sound basic, like making sure that farms are using clean water and that workers are handling compost and manure in a safe way.
But Jim says a lot of those things are not quite as simple as they sound.
Is that part of the official rule?
Yep.
There's a poop rule.
Oh, yeah.
Poop is a big deal, of course, because a lot of the pathogens we're worried about, E. coli, salmonella, cyclospora, they are spread by poop.
So, obviously, the farmer shouldn't harvest any lettuce that has poop on it, right?
Yeah, like what about those nearby heads of lettuce?
Are those contaminated too?
Like how wide of an area do you have to cordon off?
So this whole process of gathering evidence and negotiating with farmers, it takes years, takes almost a decade.
In fact, it takes all the way until 2019.
That is when the FDA starts conducting routine farm safety inspections.
And since then, FDA and state inspectors have visited thousands of farms with their clipboards and their checklists.
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