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The Daily Harvest Food Poisoning Scandal

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Meal Kit Companies Are Like a Particular Problem

A lot of the workers at these facilities are undocumented immigrants, meaning they might not feel comfortable speaking up about a safety issue. They're under such great pressure to produce a certain amount on a certain timeline, right? Like it's all those stories about like Amazon warehouses and how many seconds they have to deliver in order. And then of course also a lot of these processing facilities have miserable working conditions. Also in the 2006 spinach outbreak, that was the week that the processing facility had like the most orders. So the workers were just super busy.

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