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I think our wires have been crossed. My issue isn't that food safety hasn't been an issue for humanity, it is the idea that corporations are the party that have lead the charge for stricter food safery standards (other than CYA) and that we should defer to them.

If the FDA wants to audit kytch to ensure their software and hardware is compliant, by all means. I am however not going to trust mcdonalds or taylor to do that.

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Corporations didn’t lead the charge but they have a higher chance of better compliance because of their size and age. There are of course superb independent restaurants but there are also terrible ones, a corporate parent provides a decent signal that a minimum of safety policies will be followed. A finicky machine that breaks all the time because exact procedure isn’t followed sucks for uptime but is great for safety. Preferably the ergonomics of the thing would be redesigned for robustness but it seems incentives aren’t aligned properly.

What are you talking about corporations leading the charge? They couldn't care less until the publication of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. He talked about how they would do whatever was necessary to make spoiled food saleable. If that meant adding talc or bleaching it then so be it. If that meant turning hot dogs into the most amazing use of waste they would.

In fact I would argue it is against corporations best interest in ancient time to ensure food safety, because it would increase waste

I think you might be reading a sarcastic comment as if it's serious.

I think what happened is that “My issue” was read incorrectly to mean “my point is” when it really means “my problem with”

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