Press kit.
The sentence, the numbers, the person, and the pictures, on one page. Copy any of it verbatim.
In one sentence
That's Not Safe to Eat is a free site by Jon Levesque, a former executive at Microsoft and DocuSign, that turns FDA and USDA recall notices into a plain-English list of what you can't eat right now and where it was sold, updated daily.
That sentence is the same on the about page, in the site's structured data, and in every pitch. Quote it as written.
The numbers
Live from the database as of Sep 3, 2026. Each one links to the page that shows it.
| Figure | Value | Where to check it |
|---|---|---|
| Notices on the list | 49 | Home page, Government Facts |
| Recalls | 28 | Home page, Recalled tab |
| Advisories (Caution) | 21 | Home page, Caution tab |
| Serious health risk (Class I) | 19 | Home page, Government Facts |
| Called off, still searchable | 21 | Home page, Called off tab |
| FDA's typical delay (median) | 34 days | Slowest checkout lanes |
| FDA's worst delay on the list | 88 days | Slowest checkout lanes |
| Notices with a measurable delay | 18 | Slowest checkout lanes, CSV |
| Government sources live | 2 | Status |
| Items waiting for human review | 0 | Status |
| Last successful pipeline run | Sep 2, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC | Status |
The delay figures are days between the recall initiation date and the report date in the FDA's own enforcement report. USDA FSIS notices state no initiation date, so they are not measured. The full rows are in the CSV.
Who built it
Built by Jon Levesque, a former executive at Microsoft and DocuSign, who also built BuyPerUnit. The site launched in September 2026. It is free, has no ads, and takes no money from anyone who makes, sells, or lobbies for food.
What makes it different
- Per-notice government delay measurement. Every FDA notice on the site shows how many days passed between the company starting the recall and the FDA listing it, from the FDA's own two dates. The median and the worst are on Slowest checkout lanes, with a CSV.
- Public status and correction log. Status shows every source, when it was last checked, whether it worked, and how many items are waiting for a person. Corrections shows every fix, in public, within 24 hours of the report.
- Rubric-only statuses. "Do not eat", "Caution", and "All clear" are assigned by fixed rules from the kind of notice the government published. The AI extracts facts and writes the plain-English summary; it never picks the label, and anything it rates below 0.8 confidence is held for a human.
Assets
- Site card, 1200 × 630 PNG:
https://thatsnotsafetoeat.com/og/default.png
- Icon, 512 × 512 PNG:
https://thatsnotsafetoeat.com/icon-512.png
- Every incident has its own share card at
https://thatsnotsafetoeat.com/og/{slug}.png, linked from the share row on the incident page. - Name: That's Not Safe to Eat, with the apostrophe. Domain: thatsnotsafetoeat.com, lowercase. Colors: flyer yellow
#FFE81A, tomato red#E4232A, ink#111111.
Coverage
No coverage yet. When there is, it goes here with the outlet, the date, the headline, and the quote, verbatim, and the article joins the site's structured data.
Contact
Use the report-an-error form and start the message with the word "press". It reaches Jon Levesque directly. Interviews, data pulls for a story, and a state-by-state cut of the delay figures are all fine to ask for.