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amanaplanacanal
I've been buying local produce, when I can. I signed up for a CSA share in the spring and get an assortment of fresh veggies every week. The same place does have a local farm stand, so you don't have to sign up for the whole summer if you just want to buy some veggies.

There are a couple of "Saturday market" type things in my town, where people have booths selling produce also, but from what I can see there is no requirement that they grow their own produce, and I suspect they just buy from SYSCO or wherever. They always have things that aren't in season where I live.

nothercastle
FDA has failed. We’re going to need you start to look up Costco and Walmart or local organic cart body’s to regulate because the FDA can’t.
SlightlyLeftPad
Surely has nothing to do with rolling back literal decades of safety regulations in 2 years.
m3047
TLDR: nobody is testing irrigation water for cyclospora, it's a blind spot.
jjk166
TFA could really benefit from a concise thesis statement. It jumps around randomly and repeats facts that don't appear to be building a strong case for anything specific. Reading between the lines, it seems like the author believes the guidance document should include more on supply chain water testing, but I don't have enough context to know what reason they think it was not included or why they consider that reasoning to be flawed.
sigilis
The article is written by a robot. Ask another one to summarize or to change the style from the current meandering stew of LLMisms to something more concise.

I’m not sure the author has any options worth paying attention to since they didn’t care enough to write them down. Plus, I don’t particularly trust this article, since I have no domain expertise in this area and my bs detector doesn’t work in this circumstance.

matthew_wilson
Apologies if this was in a prior thread but detection and washing are irrelevant when the parasite is dead.

How Food Irradiation Works

https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/food-irradiation/index....

https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?...

KetoManx64
> The process is safe and effective.

What interesting phrasing.

hattmall
Irradiating enough to kill cyclospora oocysts would ruin the lettuce though.
euroderf
Food irradiation is a topic with depth. Spices are irradiated like crazy because there's no nutrition to nuke and they are insect fodder. Irradiation can be a continuum across food types. I'll bet a heavily nuked Pringle is indistinguishable from an unnuked Pringle except perhaps for improved phosphorescence.