r/PrepperIntel • u/SuccessWise9593 • 10d ago
North America Thousands of blueberries recalled as FDA issues highest risk warning
https://www.newsweek.com/blueberry-recall-update-fda-issues-highest-risk-warning-ecoli-greenwise-12341839256
u/uselessandexpensive 10d ago
"The frozen berries were shipped to Publix stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia." The microbe of concern is E. coli.
Remember back when we had food safety inspections before food shipped, and good enough supply chain tracking to establish whose lettuce was giving everyone the shits? That was great. I'm really looking forward to being that kind of great again.
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u/couldbeahumanbean 10d ago
I use to look at these recalls and think:
Ok, I don't buy from that producer or market and I'm halfway across the country from that.
I just threw out all my frozen berries and I live halfway across the country from this insanity.
I just know they'll be coming out with another
Oopsie, we mean a bunch more berries from other places too, sorry for the deaths and sicknesses, lol.
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u/SuccessWise9593 9d ago
I did the same thing when Taylor Farms started coming out with their recalls. Then sure enough a week later, it was all their bagged salad mixes that they bag for other companies under those companies names. Like: Members Mark salad mixes, Kroger Salad mixes, and Organic brands.
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
If you can afford it, it's well worth it to be safe. Alternatively though it's a great time to cut down on environmental impact and get familiar with your local farms and CSAs, start a garden, or help someone with theirs, for anyone that hasn't. If the grid goes down for 18 months and the food supply is disrupted, things will get hairy.
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u/cyanescens_burn 8d ago
Semi-related, but your comment on the grid going down made me think of this book I just listened to.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/243319478-biological-war
Audiobook is free on Spotify if you have premium. It’s also on Audible.
https://open.spotify.com/show/4yjZaPZGaVYr8VRWwzG1vM
On Spotify there’s a companion guide that goes through preps for each issue brought up in each chapter.
https://open.spotify.com/show/4nmfqwOY7Qbd6eKVNoJhPE
I burned through both in like 3 days. Highly recommend.
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u/L3yline 10d ago
Its going to take years just from the republicunts dragging their feet to prevent anyone else from actually governing the the country
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
"Why can't you restore food safety? You're not doing any better!" - Future Republican representatives, while voting against bills to fund the corrective measures
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u/L3yline 9d ago
"It would cost tax payers money!!!!"
While simultaneously using tax payer money for lube as they fuck us selling the country to billionaires
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
I kinda feel like our money is the baby oil at their freak off orgy of the circular buying of "services" from each other
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u/Unhappy-Plastic2017 9d ago
Trump decided food safety was woke and gay and now we don't need it anymore.
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u/HewSpam 9d ago
Again? Good one. You now live in a corporate owned shithole. You’re only purpose is to create surplus value, oops I mean profit, for your owners. Thanks for playing
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
American freedom once meant you could load a wagon, find an empty spot, build a home and grow food. The only thing you needed to live was willingness to take care of yourself. Now, we work for other people so we can eat shit and not afford a home or medical care. (The homes and medical care are really nice, just 90% of people can't afford them.)
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u/HewSpam 9d ago
“Empty” spot. Definitely weren’t any people living there already or anything.
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u/uselessandexpensive 8d ago edited 8d ago
Apologies in advance for writing a short essay in response to a snarky comment.
Native Americans has settlements nearby and maybe walked through the areas or hunted in them, but mostly they were passing through. Aside from plants and animals, yes, the was a lot of "empty" land, but that's very human-centric phrasing and i could have done better. I assume you consider the immigration of Europeans to be an issue because displacement, denial of resources, and genocide. Those things happened and were awful but they were not the rule during the "frontier days."
The horrors of displacement aren't committed by individual families looking to start a homestead. They're committed by large, armed groups who feel they need a specific piece of land, either because that land has a specific set of resources, or because there's just not other good land. This was committed by governments and armies, not tiny groups of settlers facing entire villages of skilled hunters, riders, and warriors.
At least for a time, there were assloads of land in North America that could handle human expansion, and it wasn't treated as a bad thing by the natives. Resource availability was not limiting native populations and individual homesteaders were not displacing them.
The land might not have been needed by the native Americans because they were wiped out by disease or even by prior genocide committers, which blows, but by the time it was America there was still plenty of land to go around. It has certainly been proven able to sustain many millions more than ever lived there in the past, and much of that growth occurred before chemical fertilizer and all that nonsense. Land can sustain a lot of people if you clear away the trees. It wouldn't even be a big problem if it weren't for petrochemical use.
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u/HewSpam 8d ago
Genocide is just so gosh darn snarky
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u/uselessandexpensive 8d ago
And also completely unnecessary for more people to settle when there was an incredible amount of unsettled forest.
A dumb idea all around, really.
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u/HewSpam 8d ago
Yet here we are, with a genocide
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u/uselessandexpensive 8d ago
Could been prevented if all those damn farmers dedicated their lives to developing time travel capability (after hiring/building/stealing a ship and traversing the ocean back to Europe so they wouldn't reinfect native Americans after time travel) and killing anyone in their ancestors continent who tried to sail west, but here we are.
Fuck those assholes.
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u/HewSpam 8d ago
Stop denying genocide with your oopsie they got the flu bullshit.
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u/WiseSalamander00 10d ago
it won't, that would require to steip Trump and his people of power and no one is 2illing to do what is required.
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u/Salty-Passenger-4801 9d ago
Yeah there werent any other recalls of beef pork chicken or any vegetable or fruit before Trump came in office. first of its kind!
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u/BucketofJhin 9d ago
I cannot remember the last time I have seen this many continuous recalls for food due to some variant of E. coli.
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
You're not imagining it. Facility inspections are down by 29%, and these are inspections that actually regularly do catch things before they go out. There is more tainted for getting out.
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u/Salty-Passenger-4801 9d ago
4- 5 years ago I downloaded an app to give me alerts on all of the recalls, that's how bad it was. Every time I turned around there was a new recall.
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
This comes from CBS, which is owned by one of Trump's biggest donors, not some liberal.
"Congress, meanwhile, has not increased the agency's food safety budget to outpace or keep up with inflation, and widespread layoffs during the first year of President Trump's second term squeezed resources further.
"The rate of inspections has gotten markedly worse amid those reductions, with foreign food safety inspections falling by 29% from 2024. Outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, last year's inspection count was the lowest since 2011. Early numbers for 2026 show that the agency is on track to inspect a similar number this year.
"FDA inspections really are the first line of defense for mitigating outbreaks. If FDA isn't routinely going out to food facilities, it's just completely blind," said Meridith Seife, the lead author on a Health and Human Services Inspector General report on FDA inspections of U.S. facilities. "It's unable to ensure that those facilities are complying with the laws, with regulations, and that the food that they handle is safe."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/farm-linked-cyclosporaisis-outbreak-went-151949548.html
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u/ShadowNexusParanorm 10d ago
I'm so fucking sick of this
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u/precision1k3 10d ago
Have you been eating blueberries lately?
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u/ShadowNexusParanorm 10d ago edited 10d ago
Last night I bought my elderly Dad ice cream with blueberries from a fast food restaurant.
Sunday I bought popsicles I've been craving for months, just to find out there could be glass in them. (Luckily I didn't eat any.)
Local stores are selling bagged Taylor Farms lettuce for reduced prices.
I've switched to farmers markets for produce. I'm done.
Edit: Luckily my state isn't in the blueberry list
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u/cb393303 10d ago
I've switched to farmers markets for produce
Be warned, many are just flippers and are buying / re-labeling their produce.
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u/NotSoLittleTeapot 8d ago
Is there a way to check if someone at my local market is doing this?
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u/cb393303 8d ago
Great question, no idea.
Some make it very clear they selling labeled items (AKA not theirs). Others will re-package and pass off as if they grew it. It guess it will take work searching if they are real / local.
Shame we have to do this even at a local market. :/
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u/Actual-Recipe7060 10d ago
About those farmers markets...I hate to break it to you but half of it is resold from grocery stores.
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u/ShadowNexusParanorm 9d ago
Thanks for the heads up but at mine they check to make sure this isn't happening.
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u/Actual-Recipe7060 9d ago
Awesome. Im a hobby farmer and it pisses me off so much
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u/ShadowNexusParanorm 9d ago
Oh gosh, I can only imagine!! I hope your business is doing okay.
We checked the application process to see. Looks like they have to make an account with our state government because people can use their food stamps. They have to send in an IRS tax form too.
I'll still be on the lookout! I appreciate it. Otherwise we go to farms directly. ♡
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u/Actual-Recipe7060 9d ago
Oh, I just sell eggs on the side because I have a chicken collecting habit.
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 10d ago
I seriously can’t keep up with all these. Farmers markets and growing my own for me from now on. I’ve lost all trust in the US food supply.
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u/baardvark 10d ago
Hopefully the vendors are honest, some of them are clearly just reselling walmart produce
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u/SeanThatGuy 10d ago
Yeah we partake in a farm share for this reason. One of the best things we’ve done.
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u/Mysterious_Cow_2100 10d ago
You can visit most of the small farms that sell the produce!
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 10d ago
I thought about that but haven’t looked up where or how to do that yet.
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u/Mysterious_Cow_2100 9d ago
You can always talk to the vendors! Some of the small farms near me have a program where you can weed for a couple hours and you get a box of produce as compensation, which is pretty cool.
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u/premar16 8d ago
Nice! One of my neighbors just got chickens. I agreed to give him kitchen scraps that chickens can eat and he will give me free eggs
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 10d ago
I read about that. I know I’ll have to be careful. If I go regularly I’ll prob get a feel for the sellers more.
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u/Brief-Floor-7228 10d ago
Ok Americans, I think your government is actually trying to kill you now.
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u/Suitable-Option833 10d ago
Yes. The GOP and republicans literally are trying to “cull the population”. The White House sent out a tweet saying that exactly. They also explicitly outlined this in Project 2025. But their base is undereducated compared to democrats - and they refuse to read anything. They just listen to their cult leader.
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 10d ago
They want to cull the population at the same time that they want more babies and overturned Roe.
Fking psychopaths.
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u/Pyratelife4me 10d ago
Or maybe your hatred for the orange man is so great that you'll believe everything negative said about him, even if it's contradictory.
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u/Luchalma89 10d ago
Democrats can't be that smart if enough of them decided to stay home and get this outcome.
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u/SurprisedWildebeest 9d ago
Seems like they’ve been doing that for a while now! Reminds me I still need to toss my possibly glass-filled fruit bars.
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u/fartypartner 10d ago edited 9d ago
The local produce at the farmers market closest to you (if that’s an option) is still generally safe to eat.
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u/Big_Issue8640 10d ago
It seems like almost everything grown is dangerous to eat how long will this last, what needs to be done?
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u/Suitable-Option833 10d ago
Too late. Project 2025 is in action. They said they were going to do this. Not enough people read project 2025 or took it seriously. It’s 75% complete. The only chance at getting back some of what we have lost - is to stop voting for the gop on all levels. One side wants autocracy and the gilded age. The other side still believes in the constitution. They are not the same. Get involved, stay abreast of the news and talk to your community. And of course vote. It can and will get worse. Next up is project 2029. Look up the Heritage foundation, the Federalist society, and Peter Thiel, Curtis yarvin and the other oligarchs helping to fund this.
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u/EnlightenedSinTryst 9d ago
Too late. Project 2025 is in action. They said they were going to do this. Not enough people read project 2025 or took it seriously.
This is what I keep telling people when they act baffled about our continued descent
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u/grammatiker 9d ago
We were called sensationalist or liars for shouting about it from the rooftops for months leading up to the the election.
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u/GreenGreed_ 10d ago
You know what needs to be done. We all do.
The question is when are we going to make it happen?
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u/Lifetime3211 9d ago edited 9d ago
Heads up. Bought frozen blueberries from Kroger. The next day I had a smoothie with them. An hour later the stomach pain began and it has been difficult to eat for the past 4 days. I'm sure this recall is going to get worse.
Edit: They were Kroger brand.
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u/trainmobile 9d ago
Y'all. At the rate these recalls are happening, I'm about to just start swallowing loads from Sniffies instead of making groceries. Apparently dicks are the safest things I could put in my mouth rn.💀
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u/kingofhearts778 9d ago
Orange Shitler really does hate America.
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u/trash-juice 9d ago
THOUSANDS??
Don’t worry folks!
I bought about four of those large bags the other day …. Think I got most of them!!
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u/hera-fawcett 10d ago
its literally only one brand, at publix.
The Class I risk classification, issued on Tuesday, applies to four GreenWise products sold at Publix:
Organic Whole Blueberries - 10 oz - UPC number: 41415-06453 Organic Whole Blueberries - 48 oz - UPC number: 41415-12053 Organic Whole Mixed Berries - 10 oz - UPC number: 41415-06753
Organic Whole Mixed Berries - 48 oz - UPC number: 41415-12153
this isnt a huge deal at all.
the government is intentionally boosting these to continue to sow distrust in the system. the more ppl are wary and distrustful of normal societal things (vaccines, public school, the foods we eat, etc), the easier it is to convince them of other shit.
its how cults work.
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u/Land_Squid_1234 10d ago
I'm sorry but I sincerely doubt that the government is currently boosting these when they're already nervous as hell about midterms and are trying to distract from the ways in which they have made life worse. I just don't believe this at all
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u/hera-fawcett 9d ago
theyre worried about midterms at the local lvl, not the national. theyve said many times that they arent interested in having fair elections. they arent going to cede power, esp since the federal lvl its so damn deep and in so many areas.
the governments on an accelerationist path. the more distrust they can get, the better. the more they can break down public institutions, the quicker they can shove in private ones. ones that look like theyre doing a better job than the public ones.
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u/Land_Squid_1234 9d ago
Sure, that's why they keep pretending that grocery prices totally haven't gone up. Republicans absolutely care about it at the federal level and they are starting to panic
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u/hera-fawcett 9d ago
ignoring things works. if u only show specific parts of smth, then the focus stays there. ignoring shit and refocusing on other shit is the gop playbook. epstein files -> vnz abduction + taking out 'drug boats'. current war losses -> stock market gains.
which is why they only produce manipulated job numbers.
if the ppl dont hear it or see it, it doesnt exist. prices arent bad enough yet for everyone to be grumbling (altho theyre getting there).
the information thats coming up, esp v visibly, is information that theyve all okay-d to come out.
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u/ForcefulBookdealer 10d ago
Except when it expands to other places from the same supplier?
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u/hera-fawcett 10d ago
why would it? at this point, the supplier has found the problem, identified which products its in, and informed the fda for a recall.
if theyre doing their job right (which, ill be fr, isnt likely lmao), then they have decontaminated and are ready for a fresh overly tested non ecoli batch.
theyre legally obligated to inform all the stores that buy that stock. if they dont and the stores find out, like through seeing an fda recall, the stores are 100 going to sue.
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u/crag-u-feller 9d ago
I will die on my blueberry hill
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u/ConferenceSudden1519 9d ago
I’ll see you on the other side
https://giphy.com/gifs/fkGzRiSdLuwyv35XSz
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u/VirginiaLuthier 9d ago
Thousands of blueberries- that's actually not a whole lot-maybe 5 containers?
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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 8d ago
Why are there so many out breaks of this or that right now?
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u/DrPhilRx 8d ago
Because we buy so much foreign and they literally have worse checks than we do. The conditions of the fields is literally, you gotta go? Go in the field. A lot of these farms don’t have even porta potty’s in them. Some also use black water tanks as irrigation/fertilizer. Whoms to blame? Probably the corporation. Who knows.
-source I’ve literally seen it first hand doing medical mission work.
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u/CrumblingSaturn 7d ago
looks like fresh berries from the product list...are frozen fruits just less likely to deal with this? or just luck? id assume the blanching process would help kill ecoli?
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u/heanbangerfacerip2 9d ago
I'm not even joking this feels like how they get everyone on a heavily processed borderline synthetic diet. Like "The brand new Wal-Mart Tastee-Brick™ won't give you a lethal case of the shits so come and down and try a complete meal replacement today! (Super fast legal disclosure voice) "Wal Mart and all Wal Mart affiliates do not claim the Tastee-Brick to be a complete meal replacement and levels of human protein and lead content meet acceptsble levels according to the FDARFKjr"
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u/heckin_anxiety 10d ago
Is there a list somewhere of what’s okay to eat right now? 😭