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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by golem14 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @04:16PM (#31381894)
In fact, a lot of somewhat shady spice packets you get at asian groceries in the bay area have a crummy paper sticker with english labeling over the Indian/Chinese/... original label.

If this can happen for spices, why not for baby formula ?

I think that this is a case of noone wanting to take the risk of eventually someone selling some product that is expired or otherwise bad with relaxed labeling/... rules. I can understand it, too, from a biz POV.

I think the government needs to provide some sort of indemnification to importers/distributors/groceries. If the tradeoff demands it – 'X babies die/get sick because of malnutrition b/c missing baby formula' vs 'Y kids die/get sick because of bad baby formula.'

X/Y are just hard to pin down.

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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by ClumsyPilot on Saturday May 14, 2022 @05:54PM (#31382986)
> If this can happen for spices, why not for baby formula ?

Surely this shoupd be bloody obvious? Like asking - if you can import dried fruit, why cant you import donated blood?

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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by samatman on Saturday May 14, 2022 @07:36PM (#31383776)
The task is translating from metric to imperial and German or Dutch to English.

Once. This will take someone an hour, someone else will spend thirty minutes proofreading it. Tell you what, two people take thirty minutes to proofread it, just to make you comfortable.

How do you expect this task to fail? Compare and contrast the failure modes of importing blood and translating a nutrition label for me, please. If it's so bloody obvious.

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