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The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service has recalled nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina after discovering it skipped required import re-inspections. Despite no contaminant being identified, the agency labeled the beef a Class I hazard, its most severe risk category, and it remains unclear which retailers received the product.
The widely cited treatise by Richard Cook argues that hazardous complex systems—like healthcare, aviation, and power generation—are inherently risky and are protected by multiple layers of technical, human, and organizational defenses. Catastrophic failure rarely stems from one cause; instead it emerges when several small, often latent failures align simultaneously to overwhelm those defenses. Most failure trajectories are stopped before they cascade, largely thanks to human operators catching problems in real time.