Our Food Keeps Getting Recalled. Here’s What to Do.

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Food recalls seem to be making headlines more than ever. This summer, a major recall of roughly 7.2 million pounds of Boar's Head deli meats due to listeria raised serious concerns and sent 59 people to the hospital and resulted in 10 deaths. More recently, E. coli outbreaks linked to organic carrots and slivered onions in McDonald's quarter pounders brought the issue back into focus, Sanjay sits down with food safety expert Dr. Don Schaffner to explore why recalls happen and the steps you can take to keep your family safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, I want you to imagine this.
0:02.5	You're sitting down to enjoy a meal with your family
0:04.9	when you hear that the food on your plate has actually been recalled.
0:09.9	Pretty jarring thought, right?
0:11.8	But at the same time, it's something that seems to be coming up more and more these days.
0:16.0	As you may remember, just this summer,
0:18.0	millions of pounds of boar's head deli meat were removed from stores.
0:22.8	Why? A Listeria outbreak that led to dozens of hospitalizations and at least 10 deaths.
0:30.1	More recently, you may have heard of the outbreak of E. coli linked to McDonald's. The likely source
0:35.6	there, slivered onions used in their quarter pounders.
0:40.4	It does feel like everywhere we turn, there's been another food safety issue in the news.
0:44.7	Ready to eat meat producer Bruce Pack has recalled nearly 10 million pounds of meat and poultry products.
0:50.6	Church Brothers Farms out of Salinas has recalled nearly 300 cases of green
0:54.7	onions. More than 600 frozen waffle products for more than a dozen brands are being
0:59.8	voluntarily recalled due to a potential listeria contamination. Health experts are investigating
1:05.9	an outbreak of E. coli linked to tainted carrots. But this isn't necessarily a surprise to everyone.
1:13.0	People love to say we have the safest food supply in the world. I am not one of those people.
1:17.8	That's Dr. Don Schaffner. He's a food safety expert. He has been studying foodborne illnesses for
1:23.1	decades. Currently, he's a department chair and distinguished professor at Rutgers University.
1:29.5	I really wanted to have him on the podcast today to understand what is happening with our food.
1:35.1	What can we do about it? And with the holidays approaching, a time when many of us gather with
1:39.6	loved ones to cook and share food, I wanted to take a closer look at this issue with him.
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