Contamination

The filthy edition

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This story is not about fancy, sciencey stuff like DNA contamination of COVID vaccines but about basic dirt and filth in various products and environments we trust.

For cultural reasons, many of us assume that we here in the West are clean, that foods and medicines sold to us are pristine—not free of unthinkable toxins, perhaps—but at least, not disgusting in a classic way.

Well, sorry, we’ve been living in a fantasy world. That bubble is bust.

Whole Foods slapped (mildly) for unsanitary (not mildly) conditions at a kitchen in MA (2016)

AP:

The Food and Drug Administration has sent Whole Foods Market a letter over “serious violations” at a Massachusetts kitchen, warning the grocer that food prepared there “may have been contaminated with filth.”

The FDA’s Public Health Service describes multiple inspections conducted during February at the North Atlantic kitchen in Everett, which had condensate from ceiling joints dripping onto work surfaces below. Another incident involved an employee spraying sanitizer on work surfaces near a coworker preparing food, resulting in the “sanitizer being sprayed onto an open colander of salad leafy greens.” Other violations included employees not washing hands or changing gloves in between tasks, for example.

Another report says it was a plant:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking Whole Foods Market (WFM) to resolve unsanitary conditions at a plant in Massachusetts, where the agency found listeria and other serious food-safety violations during a series of inspections in February.

The FDA said in a warning letter that it observed an employee spraying ammonium sanitizer near an open colander of salad, and that another worker’s “upper sleeves were frequently touching” leafy greens as they were packaged.

The agency also said it saw ready-to-eat pesto pasta and mushrooms quesadillas being prepared in a room where ceiling joints were dripping and observed an employee assembling cartons and packing quinoa cakes without washing hands or changing gloves.

Contaminated eye drops (2023)

CBS News:

The outbreak of extensively drug-resistant bacteria linked to eye drops recalled earlier this year is continuing to grow, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, with 81 cases and four deaths now reported across 18 states.

The figures published Friday by the agency mark the first increase in deaths since March, when the CDC tallied three dead. Thirteen more patients have also since been confirmed, though around half of them were actually from specimens gathered before the February recall of eye drops.

Hospital infections and harm

This one was reported by multiple sources in early 2021 and then scrubbed off the internet but not entirely so. The plot was about a drug-resistant species of Candida that people get during hospital stay (that can kill them) and specifically, about its presence in a 2020 COVID ward: Mysterious, Killer Fungus Spread Rampantly At US Hospital Covid Ward: Study

Journal of Patient Safety (2013): "Using a weighted average of the 4 studies, a lower limit of 210,000 deaths per year was associated with preventable harm in hospitals. Given limitations in the search capability of the Global Trigger Tool and the incompleteness of medical records on which the Tool depends, the true number of premature deaths associated with preventable harm to patients was estimated at more than 400,000 per year. Serious harm seems to be 10- to 20-fold more common than lethal harm.” {This is not just hospital infections, this is other types of harm as well.]

You can find more in my 2021 bigger-than-life article “Pandemic, Meet Panopticon. Panopticon, Meet Pandemic“ and look for the section called “Hospital infections.” The article needs some philosophical updates after two years but most things still stand, and there are lots of links.

100 million doses of J&J COVID “vaccines” recalled due to unsanitary conditions at the plant (2021)

NYT:

The chief executive of Emergent BioSolutions, whose Baltimore plant ruined millions of coronavirus vaccine doses, disclosed for the first time on Wednesday that more than 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine are now on hold as regulators check them for possible contamination.

In more than three hours of testimony before a House subcommittee, the chief executive, Robert G. Kramer, calmly acknowledged unsanitary conditions, including mold and peeling paint [emphasis mine], at the Baltimore plant. He conceded that Johnson & Johnson — not Emergent — had discovered contaminated doses, and he fended off aggressive questions from Democrats about his stock sales and hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses for top company executives.

Emergent’s Bayview Baltimore plant was forced to halt operations a month ago after contamination spoiled the equivalent of 15 million doses, but Mr. Kramer told lawmakers that he expected the facility to resume production “in a matter of days.” He said he took “very seriously” a report by federal regulators that revealed manufacturing deficiencies and accepted “full responsibility.”

“No one is more disappointed than we are that we had to suspend our 24/7 manufacturing of new vaccine,” Mr. Kramer told the panel, adding, “I apologize for the failure of our controls.”

Mr. Kramer’s appearance before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which has opened a broad inquiry into his company, offered the public its first glimpse of the men who run Emergent, a politically connected federal contractor that dominates a niche market in biodefense preparedness, with the U.S. government as its prime customer. […]

Hours before the hearing began, committee staff members released confidential audits, previously reported by The Times, that cited repeated violations of manufacturing standards. A top federal manufacturing expert echoed those concerns in a June 2020 report, warning that Emergent lacked trained staff and adequate quality control.

Allegedly, due to contamination, 60 million doses were thrown out (400 million doses total by that manufacturer since 2020?) Every other problem of these “vaccines” aside, how many blatantly contaminated ones—mold and all—were injected into arms? Given that we are in a free fall as far as standards go, how do we even know?

Oh, the sweet pre-COVID days when “rashes, pain, redness, swelling and hard lumps” weren’t just a “sign that the vaccine is doing its job” (2018)

Daily Mail:

Vaccinations are causing infections in three states, prompting fears a batch was contaminated.

'Multiple people' have developed rashes, pain, redness, swelling and hard lumps in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.

It transpires all of them received vaccines produced by Kentucky-based provider Location Vaccination since September 2018.

Oh, Gilead (FDA recall page)

To find it, please go to the FDA page for recalls (while it lasts) and type in the company name. It’s an “interesting” page to explore!

The notorious metal contamination of Moderna “vaccines” in Japan

And a “foreign body in a vial” in Spain

Dr. Garth Nicolson on mycoplasmas in some “traditional” vaccines.

I am really just scratching the surface here, inspired by observing how the owner of a local laundromat routinely picks up the fallen “drier” socks from the floor—dust, mold, dog hair and all—and puts them right back into the “clean” pile that unsuspecting customers later view as “clean.” Seems like food and drug facilities are just like him.

On a somewhat related note, I remember how in the post-Soviet Moscow, it was known that if someone were selling food products and wanted to show better ingredients on the box, he would simply have to come up with a bigger bribe—and then say whatever he liked.

Do I feel right at home? Yep.

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