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Bare feet are a bit clickbaity on the headline. That alone doesn't mean much, but when it happens on a area where you should have full protective gear at the (supposed to be) sterile part of the manufacturing it's of course a big deal. But it would be equally big deal if you just stroll there in your jeans and t-shirt with boots you stepped on a dog shit on your way to work. And even then it's not even close of being the biggest issue on manufacturing where they constantly ignored all of the safety protocols, including ignoring test results which told them that the product is faulty.

I rather just die than go blind

but, muh shareholders!

This has been going on ever since pharmaceuticals were outsourced to India and China. This was done to reduce FDA oversight. The FDA is still allowed to enter these facilities as a condition of allowing imports but the cost of sending inspectors to the other side of the planet means that there is much less scrutiny.

If you want to want to be terrified of all medicine try reading this blog "warning letter of the week" where they find the most insane FDA warning letter issued every week to some pharmaceutical company:

https://chemjobber.blogspot.com/search/label/warning%20letter%20of%20the%20week

Yikes. Suddenly that cry of "The generic stuff is just as good!"

Are going to be drowned out by the "the generic stuff is made in barefoot factories in india with constant failed safety inspections!" And then we are all forced to buy marked up products.

Being barefoot could potentially introduce extra risk of contamination from shedding skin cells; this may or may not matter depending on which part of the plant they’re working at. In clean room environments, people usually wear special clothing that prevent cross contamination; these include special coat, hair netting, and extra layer of covering around the shoes. But if the said employee works in the office on administrative tasks, far away from clean areas of production, who cares?

Most surprisingly, the inspectors observed barefoot employees working in a sterile area of the facility, where they should have been wearing shoes—plus gowns, gloves, and shoe booties. (The barefoot workers were also not wearing gowns or gloves.) A production manager puzzlingly told FDA inspectors that shoeless work is "standard practice."

They were supposed to cover everything including the feet.

Eye drops are made of feet!

Same, would never do it again

I have to use eye drops to prevent glaucoma, and I'm seriously hoping that medical products have higher standards.