I wonder if its time to rethink some of these institutions. It seems like Food Safety is especially important to the welp being of society; it might make sense to have food testing labs in every major population center/distribution hub. Funded by a tax on the food companies or perhaps even locally. Its just unbelievable that the entire US population is so vulnerable… what if a bad actor did something nasty deliberately?
You don't always get a positive test, but this doesn't necessarily prevent you from concluding the cause of food contamination.
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Software getting flagged by anti-malware as a false positive is a great way to get an evil corpo tale of woe to the top of HN with 800 points.
So it’s a false positive?
It sounds like you're trying to browbeat the other person with a fallacy of equivocation over the scope of "it."
These things are not equivalent:
1. A biological test for a parasite in a sample of equipment/material from the factory. (Claimed as false-positive.)
2. The analysis of the supply-chain for the food that sickened people which led to that facility as a common factor. (Presumably still accurate.)
To use a criminal-investigation metaphor: Suppose Mr. McStabberson is suspected of murdering his girlfriend, who he threatened to kill in a voicemail and who died of knife wounds, so they went and tested the biggest knife from his knife collection and it has a "false positive" for human blood. Is your takeaway from that that Mr. McStabberson was a "false positive suspect" and is obviously totally innocent?