UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by mjevans on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:00PM (#35293901)

Safety, including healthcode safety, is a good thing. A level playing field ensures that everyone in the market is making safe, hopefully good quality, products for that market. Reviewing, streamlining, and creating easier for small businesses to follow guidelines about the regulations that exist in a given field also sounds like good ways of improving consumer choice and safety.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by DeathArrow on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:42PM (#35294415)

> Safety, including healthcode safety, is a good thing. A level playing field ensures that everyone in the market is making safe, hopefully good quality,

Sure, you can raise the standards so much that only multi billion companies will be able to comply. In fact that is what we witness today. How many mom and pop shops still exist compared to the '60s?

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by Nifty3929 on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:18PM (#35294861)

Absolutely! Food safety is critical!

Let's just be honest with ourselves that these regulations cause us to have less stuff, and consider when they are worth it, and when they are not.

And 100% - making it easier for individuals/businesses to comply with regulations is winners all around.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by t-3 on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:19PM (#35294872)

Safety is not an absolute good. Safe enough is fine, so safe that nothing can get done and everyone is miserable helps no one. When the "level playing field" prohibits small business, things have almost surely gone too far.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by logifail on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:45PM (#35295196)

> A level playing field ensures that everyone in the market is making safe, hopefully good quality, products for that market

I don't believe "safe" and "good quality" are necessarily aligned. I live close to a dairy farm where they sell (their own) unpasturised milk. You bring your own bottle, fill it, and pay in the honesty box. The farmer has a (small) disclaimer suggesting that the milk be boiled prior to consumption, but I don't believe any of the local buyers actually do that.

Q: Should this be forbidden?

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by mjevans on Sunday March 26, 2023 @01:24PM (#35316986)

My OPINION is that it should not be forbidden BUT that it should be clearly labeled.

UNPROCESSED Raw Milk (animal species)

There should probably be a poster or something created by the FDA that quickly summarizes the risks involved with not performing each of the mandatory safety steps for normal retail 'Milk', and it would be helpful if more detailed information were available on a website and from the local health agencies.

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