martybegan
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It depends. A relative's work was the subject of a nationwide recall. It took them awhile to figure it out as what they thought was the problem wasn't. Turned out it was something deep inside one the machines that was holding product in a place where it normally wouldn't be that was feeding the contamination as it wasn't getting cleaned out in the normal cleaning cycle. IIRC they said there was a crack the product was seeping into where the bacteria set up.
The thing is 4 sick kids and 2 deaths is a tragedy, but with a contamination problem worthy of an entire plant shutdown, you would think there would be more attributable illnesses if the plant as a whole was indeed the source of the contamination.
Now you have a risk of panic and over-reaction.
If say 12 infants die due to car accidents caused by parents frantically searching for formula caused by the shutdown, which deaths matter more?
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