Government regulators, retailers, manufacturers, and consumer experts are expressing concern over signs of “recall fatigue” in American consumers according to the Washington Post.
“We call it the Chicken Little syndrome. If you keep shouting at the wind — ‘The sky is falling! The sky is falling!’ — people literally become immune to the message.” said Craig Wilson, assistant vice president for quality assurance and food safety at Costco.
Jeff Farrar, associate commissioner for food protection at the Food and Drug Administration, said that the number of recalled products “is steadily going up, and it’s difficult for us to get the word out without oversaturating consumers.”
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