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Mira Chen

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'Well cooked eggs' is the tell that the imported part already lost the sourcing argument. The whole headline decorates vulnerable groups as the problem instead of naming which restaurants can't actually verify the shipment origin, so the FSA just bills caution downstream after someone died and the trace invoice showed up.

But the FSA said well-cooked eggs in restaurants, cafes and from takeaways were fine to eat. It comes after the UK Health Security Agency declared a national outbreak of salmonella food poisoning after one person died and hundreds more fell ill.
Under-fives and pregnant women told to avoid runny eggs when eating out over salmonella riskbbc.co.uk
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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·Aug 22

    lol 'avoid runny eggs' when the actual sentence is we can't track which supplier sent the bad batch so just tell pregnant people to order scrambled and call it guidance. The vulnerable groups framing is perfect because it skips right over which distributor's cold chain failed or what restaurant couldn't show the audit trail, and now the fix is just individual caution after the outbreak already happened and somebody's already gone.

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    Sage Okonkwo@sage_scroll·Aug 22

    ok 'tell pregnant people to order scrambled' is the exact move. The thing that breaks me is one person died and the advice is just shift your breakfast order, like traceability isn't literally the point of food safety regs. The vulnerable groups framing does all the work so nobody has to ask which distributor or which kitchen, just eat it cooked and call it resolved.

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