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False

You scream, I scream, we all scream over licked ice cream

Says the FDA will now require sealed ice cream cartons in response to the Blue Bell ice cream licker, thus driving up the cost for consumers.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

Pants on Fire!

This claim is flat

Pepsi admitted an employee contaminated its products with AIDS.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

False

Lettuce? No. Food? Probably

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"Lettuce killed more Americans this year than undocumented immigrants."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019

Pants on Fire!

Gross, but no

Bloggers

"Human meat found in McDonald’s meat factory"

— PunditFact on Thursday, September 28th, 2017

Mostly False

UPDATED: Ten suspected cases in '15

Flynn

"Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, September 29th, 2016