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Food Safety Complaints for Meat, Poultry, and Eggs Spiked 40% in 2025 to Record High
Foreign objects were the most common type of complaint, including wood in corn dogs.
gizmodo.com
Food safety complaints to FSIS for fiscal year 2025, which covers October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, were up 39.7% from fiscal year 2024, when 1,443 complaints were received.
The last big spike in complaints occurred in 2019, during President Donald Trump’s first term, when the agency received 1,693 complaints, up from 1,294 in 2018.