There has been a 400-500% increase in food recalls over baseline in the past year. Most of the recalls in the past year have been health and safety related recalls for foods that can cause harm or death.

In previous years, the majority of recalls were related to improper labeling or missed inspections, but did not actually mean the food was dangerous to consume.

This is a genuinely huge uptick in both the prevalence and severity of "accidents."

Im not American but its also possible shit is just slowly falling apart and getting fucked all kinds of ways. I also assume the current admin accelerated some things.

is this like how they were reporting every single minor airplane mishap for a few months

I assume it's that. I shared the article because it's about tofu (which is unexpected and funny) plus I thought it was breaking news but it turned out it's not.

there's probably a way to look at old food recalls, either on the fda website or wayback machine.

there's probably some blogger comparing the current thing to less late stage years

Wondering the same.