Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing label "contains milk"

Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by mrguyorama on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:51PM (#42152694)

So the government says "If you have an allergen and don't label it, you will be punished."

Industry decides "It would cost a little money to find out if we have sesame in our product, so instead just add a little sesame and then label it"

And you blame THE GOVERNMENT?! The one hurting allergic people here is the company putting sesame in everything so they don't have to give a shit about people with allergies.

I'm so tired of American companies taking the dumbest, most harmful routes to things, and all of you stand up and shout at THE GOVERNMENT, as if Biden himself told Nestle to just put sesame in everything.

Saner populations would correctly be angry at the companies making these overtly harmful decisions.

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Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by nessguy on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:01PM (#42152786)

It’s perfectly logical.

Even if the company doesn’t intentionally have sesame in their product, what if one of their suppliers gives them sesame tainted flour or something?

If they don’t have a ‘May contain sesame’ warning then they might lose tons of money because they have to recall the product later.

The problem here is how lawsuit friendly America is.

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Re:Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing l... by Ferret7446 on Saturday November 16, 2024 @05:56AM (#42155775)

The problem is legislators making reactionary laws and regulations that worsen the situation. There's a reason why the free market operates so much better than a centrally planned one; people are really bad at anticipating systemic emergent effects.

If the legislators did any research at all, they would not have made such a boneheaded change.

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