[ac29]

> important to note: the US's food safety is already really bad. salmonella isn't a thing you have to worry about in first world countries.

There were 65,000 cases of salmonellosis in the EU in the most recent data I could find (2022). Thats a lower per capita rate than the US, but definitely not zero.

[rickard]

I agree that it’s not zero, but according to CDC, the US sees about 1.35 million cases per year in a population of about 346 million, which is about 390 cases per 100,000 people. Your figure for the EU over a population of 447 million in 2022 gives 14.5 cases per 100,000 people, or more than a factor of 26 less.

Being 26 times less worried about something translates, at least for most things, for me, to not being worried about it any more.