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As mentioned in TFA, the Boars Head Virginia plant has been shut down since the inspection issues in July.

It's crazy there aren't at least annual inspections of food production facilities which would have unearthed the disgusting lack of care sooner. They market themselves as a premium brand, which makes this look even worse.

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I mean a month shutdown isn't much of a punishment. They'll go back online, run their staff over capacity, and neglect cleaning and maintenance all over again.

I was a customer, regularly buying several different products including lunch meats and I think I actually did get sick from the lunch meat back around when the recalls were announced.

Never again.

That's basically why we need regulation.

Hardcore libertarians say the free market would fix this, but even if you do get sick it's hard to attribute to which exact product you got sickness from. And in any case this is all after the fact that you bought the thing.

9 people died from this outbreak. The settlements from those 9 deaths should bankrupt the company and put them out of business, or at least close that facility permanently. I feel sorry for the innocent people who may lose their jobs, but those are the same people that should have prevented the problem to begin with. That factory was a stinking mess, and it should have been completely obvious to everyone who worked there.

They inspect you more often when there's been problems recently. Might be a year or two before the inspections to back to annual.

At least that's what our inspectors do - if there's something bad, they'll check up on it later.

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