USDA recalls 25,000 lbs. of chicken products in 5 states over false inspection marks
Buffalo chicken-flavored products from Boston distributor Shanghai Ravioli Corporation flagged for missing proper inspection documentation.
What to know
- USDA recalled 24,900 pounds of frozen Buffalo chicken products from Boston distributor Shanghai Ravioli Corporation on August 26 due to false inspection marks and lack of proper inspection documentation.
- The Class I recall affects five New England states and warns the uninspected products may contain undeclared allergens, harmful bacteria, or contaminants.
- Comments on the story connect the recall to recent FDA staffing cuts (4,500 positions) and depleted inspection capacity—only 400 inspectors available to cover 36,000 facilities against FDA estimates of 1,500 needed.
The dispute Whether recent federal staffing cuts are a primary cause of rising food contamination versus a symptom of a pre-existing structural problem in inspection capacity. · positions read across 23 posts and comments
FDA staffing cuts and deregulation are directly causing the surge in food contamination recalls.
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“Defunding the FDA and forcing out 4500 staff via DOGE cuts caused this. Right now we have 400 safety inspectors covering 36,000 facilities vs the FDA's own estimates they need at least 1,500 inspectors.”
randycupertino · Hacker News
Food safety inspection capacity was already critically inadequate before recent cuts; the system's underlying scale problem predates current policy changes.
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“The FDA was already in bad shape as far as inspections go. In 'The Secret Life of Groceries' (published in 2020) I believe the statistic was that the people responsible for keeping our food system safe only have the capacity to inspect…”
dmschulman · Hacker News
The scale of this particular recall is small relative to total U.S. chicken consumption and should not drive panic.
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“25,000 lbs is .0000007% of the 35,000,000,000 lbs of chicken consumed in the US each year.”
nba456_ · Hacker News
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Food safety regulatorShanghai Ravioli Corporation, Inc. Boston-based distributor
The record 3 articles and posts · last 28 days
What people are saying 23 voices from 1 site · verbatim
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This is the dumbest article on the front page of HN I've seen in awhile.Are there bots on here now upvoting stupid nonsense?
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When it comes to food contamination, even an infinitesimal quantity is noteworthy. Tbh many posts on this board are relatively low quality (and/or AI generated) but still spark interesting discussion.
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I recall there was a farmer trying to sue over the USDA Organic rating. From what I recall, if something is produced outside the US and they apply the label, the USDA takes them at their word and does not actually test it.
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This post is not of sufficient quality for this board and I hope it's not emblematic of a trend.Thehealthy.com is not a real news outlet and this isn't real news. 25klbs of chicken is an infinitesimal amount of total consumed in the US.
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It's like when your enemy undermines your logistics in a game. It's an attack, but not a direct attack. If you attack directly you might get called the aggressor.
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The FSIS, a branch of the USDA (not the FDA: for the difference in jurisdiction see https://www.fda.gov/media/172542/download), found this problem, according to the original article. The food from the Shanghai Ravioli Company had false inspection marks and no country of origin, much like an earlier case of food imported from Canada.> The products…
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The USDA was the one to issue this recall. Inadequate number of inspectors would make recalls go down not up.
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> I believe the statistic was that the people responsible for keeping our food system safe only have the capacity to inspect around 5% of domestic agricultural and food processing operations nation-wide.Over what time period? If they can inspect 5% in a year, that's not too bad.Keep in mind that if they inspect without notice and do it randomly…
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This is the system working as it is designed to do. Manufacturers are periodically inspected to confirm their procedures, systems, and facilities meet FDA guidelines. This is an instance of a manufacturer trying to circumvent protocols and the FDA catching the malfeasance and taking standard recall actions.
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Maybe eating ultra processed frozen meat products wasn't such a good idea in the first place. Sad that some may have to learn the hard way.
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Why do they keep letting Tyson's frozen garbage through? The processed chicken "honey tenders" are great but most of the supposedly less processed frozen chicken I have bought from them recently has been nasty.
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The Boston-based "Shanghai Ravioli Corporation, Inc." selling buffalo wild chicken wings...That's a wild combination of words there.
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25,000 lbs is .0000007% of the 35,000,000,000 lbs of chicken consumed in the US each year.
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The FDA was already in bad shape as far as inspections go. In 'The Secret Life of Groceries' (published in 2020) I believe the statistic was that the people responsible for keeping our food system safe only have the capacity to inspect around 5% of domestic agricultural and food processing operations nation-wide. That speaks more to the amount and…
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Don't worry! They're going to relax the rules on small scale meat processing allowing it to occur at facilities that rarely if ever see an inspector, surely this will make everything better. You can be certain the people of America will be healthier than ever after this amazing initiative.
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> Defunding the FDA and forcing out 4500 staff via DOGE cuts caused this.This is great news because it means time travel is possible.
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Worse is that we ended up with an oligpoly of 3 foreign owned meat packing conglomerates.
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It's wild how in America at least, the people have to relearn the same lessons every generation or two. It turns out, some regulations are actually beneficial to a society. Maybe don't take a chainsaw to the groups who implement and look after these regulations.
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Sounds to me like the USDA is working as intended: they caught a company doing shady stuff and forced a recall.Are you really trying to spin your own narrative here, using cherry-picked data and your own link as "evidence"?The Boar's Head *and* McDonalds outbreaks were in 2024 under the previous admin, way before DOGE, completely undermining this…
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You don't have to go back years, months will do.There are more than you listed as well, like the raspberries
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When I saw the EST. 18004 in the article I thought the inspection stamps were bad ai attempts, but after some research I found out the EST here is not supposed to be a year, but the id of the establishment being inspected. You can look up the number or the company and see no entries here
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So let's see, in the past few years we've had the Boar's head listeria recalls, Taylor farms lettuce contamination, the McDonalds e.coli recalls in 14 states, now chicken wings...Defunding the FDA and forcing out 4500 staff via DOGE cuts caused this. Right now we have 400 safety inspectors covering 36,000 facilities vs the FDA's own estimates they…
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Food is getting so bad, you should just paste the article:The reason echoes a recent issue the USDA has been following—one that's becoming peculiarly common.If you’re wondering what has been going on with our food, you’re one of millions. Now, on Wednesday, August 26, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a recall notice on 24,900…