[rsynnott]

Bear in mind that food poisoning isn’t free. It is not in society’s interest to have people off work sick, taking up medical capacity, and dying early. The advances in food safety over the 20th and 21st century was a great social good, and backsliding would be bad.

I do think that one problem, particularly in societies like the US where people don’t go to their GP very frequently, is that it’s pretty hard to measure impacts, because there’s little reliable data on mild (but economically impactful) cases.