Jim Gorney

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67 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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Planet Money · Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

So this was a huge deal.

I mean, this was a major overhaul.

And it really was supposed to be the great leap forward for food safety and enhancing food safety across all commodities and all foods.

And I got a call from a person I knew at FDA and they said, hey, would you like to come to Washington, work at FDA and help us put this rule together?

And I jumped at the opportunity.

Things like worker health and hygiene, making sure that there's places for employees to wash their hands.

Oh no!

What they're supposed to do is flag it, cordon off an area around it, and that should never be harvested.

But then the question comes is, okay, ooh.

How close can I get to that one plant or that one pile there?

So we really tried our best.

But what we found is sometimes there's just not enough science.

And unless you can show them the science, they don't want to do it.

I would hope things are getting safer.

Hope is not a strategy, right?

This season on Planet Money Summer School, we go to China, one of the world's biggest economies.

The U.S.

and China are more alike than you might think.

On Planet Money Summer School, a strange lesson about success, how to handle the downsides of progress.

Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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