Do people not cook their food? Why a recall just cook your damn fish sheesh
I am guessing that most of this stuff is microwave and not oven and most people don't bother to check internal food temps so its possible for them to undercook even a small part of the pre-prepared food resulting in not killing off the listeria.
I see no issue killing off the low-IQ dregs.
Smoked salmon is ready to eat. You could cook it, but that would destroy the texture and flavor. Issue is it's a minimally prepared (lightly smoked/not cooked) product, and is easily effected by bad handling or practices. I buy fresh hot-smoked salmon once a year in December from an outfit in Door County, WI. Eat half around Christmas and freeze the rest for later use. It's freshly smoked so has decent shipping life, it's cold out when they ship it and it comes in big hunks so there's not a lot of surface area subject to decomposition/contamination. Contrast the above with that thinly sliced product Costco sells. Lots of processing to slice it thinly, and lots of surface area for shit to grow on.
If you want to go with a "rarer"/soft textured smoked salmon, buy a whole Scottish smoked salmon and shave slices yourself. Increased processing in our food supply can now literally be equated with increased risk of death. I love a good smoked salmon as much as - or more than - the next guy, but these days you REALLY have to look at what you're buying because there's so much going wrong with our food supply.
And don't get me started again on the toxic farm fisheries in Norway that crank out "premium" Norwegian smoked salmon. I will never touch it again - not even with an eleven foot pole...
EDIT: The pics in the article are CLEARLY labeled "NORWEGIAN". That shit is toxic as hell to begin with. Norway requires posting of advisory notices in fish markets selling domestic farmed salmon advising of high levels of chemicals and antibiotics, and cautions pregnant women and small children to drastically limit intake. And then it gets processed and shipped to the US as a "premium" product.
NEVER BUY THIS SHIT!
Some of the recalls were onions.