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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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