Feds: "here is a complex and expensive 170-point checklist for how you must guarantee that not one atom is present in your sesame-free products, on pain of death"
Companies: "sesame-free products? what sesame-free products?"
The Fed idiot wannabe do-gooders tried to step on private companies and tell them how to do their jobs in an unreasonable & absurd way, supposedly to protect people with allergies. The predictable result was that food producers calculated that the financial gain from serving that small minority of customers wasn't justified by the enormous costs & risks of attempting to comply with the new regulations, so they eliminated all the products the regulations would apply to by - for example - adding sesame flour into products which formerly had none.
Reagan was right: "The nine most terrifying words in the English Language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
As a lifelong auditor (who hates his life) I’ve always hated how regulators assume businesses exist to comply with regulation rather than, you know, be a business.
Unelected bureaucrats like to imagine themselves to be gods, and their regulations handed down like stone tablets to the pitiable Moses & his golden calf worshiping heathens, sorely in need of divine judgment.
They also love to listen to far-left academics ["experts"] & hate to listen to their victims ["evil capitalist scum who would sell their own grandma for a dollar"].
And their lesson learned from their failure here is never that they fucked up and need to re-assess. No, their response is always "we need to regulate harder".
If the ADA can result in free videos being removed from a university website/youtube because they don't have subtitles then you can be damn sure the feds will eventually do it for allergens.
I love that the same government that cracks down of illegitimate anti-allergy claims also allows up to 120 insect parts in a 16 oz. jar of peanut butter.
Democrats care about academic lobbyists not corporate ones for many parts of the deep state. Regulatory capture is a problem with some agencies, but with others like the FDA it's fart sniffing academics & activists capture.
Few years ago EU forbid selling some 100 watt light bulbs.
Every country complied except Poland. In a matter of a week all polish companies swapped the packaging of old lightbulbs to say '99 watt light bulbs' and EU was powerless to do anything xD
The wattage depends on the line voltage anyway. Seeing a "100W" lightbulb draw from 90-110W isn't at all uncommon depending on filament manufacturing a few volts +/- of line voltage.
Some in the food industry say adding sesame flour is the safest path forward. They contend that they can’t sufficiently clean their equipment to guarantee it is free of sesame, as the Faster Act requires. And, under federal labeling rules, they can’t state that their products contain sesame unless the items actually contain it — so they’re adding sesame and labeling it.
The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates most food labeling, “does not support” adding sesame as a strategy to comply with the law. “Labeling is not to be used instead of current good manufacturing practices with regard to allergens,” an FDA spokesperson said.
The FDA might be the most retarded Government office, and that is a difficult thing to do. They made the rule with an obvious loophole and are now denying all responsibility despite their poor decision.
How many allergics were created because The Science™ told expecting mothers to avoid peanuts and sesame seeds because it could transfer allergies in utero?
under federal labeling rules, they can’t state that their products contain sesame unless the items actually contain it
Here products have a separate listing of ingredients that might have contaminated the product, which avoids this problem - nobody's getting tricked into buying a product just because it might have traces of peanut, but allergic people know that it's risky.
Refusing to make such allowances, such that the only way a producer can warn allergic customers is by deliberately adulterating their product with sesame, is insane.
You need to sacrifice 30 virgins to cleanse your equipment of every molecule of peanut
"fuck that, we will just put a warning that the product might have peanut contamination"
NOOOOO! That's not what your overlords in govt jobs wanted! We demand you sacrifice the virgins! Therefore: we will no longer allow you to use those warnings to avoid sacrificing the virgins!
"okay then we will just put peanuts in everything"
angry bureaucrat face
And people wonder why smaller government is better.
I'm sure the government response will be to create a requirement to sell food product that is free of allergens if they sell products that contain them, or some other similarly stupid shit, because they will never reflect upon the consequences of their shitty legislature and think to roll it back to something reasonable.
I'm sure the government response will be to create a requirement to sell food product that is free of allergens if they sell products that contain them
There are limits to what the government can do. What you are suggesting would not be legal. Government cannot generally force people to sell certain kinds of products & if they tried, the industry would go nuclear with lobbyists. It would be unprecedented.
The result? Foods that sesame-allergic kids and adults have eaten safely for years are now potentially life-threatening.
you're the ones with the problem, so make your own food. forcing companies to do expensive and meticulous cleaning for 1.5 million people out of 330+ is retarded and such excess government that everyone involved should be shot.
So the government went "do, or do not, there is no try", and the world went "okay, do, I guess, since 'do' costs nothing and 'do not' costs a ton and generates no profit."
Feds: "here is a complex and expensive 170-point checklist for how you must guarantee that not one atom is present in your sesame-free products, on pain of death"
Companies: "sesame-free products? what sesame-free products?"
The Fed idiot wannabe do-gooders tried to step on private companies and tell them how to do their jobs in an unreasonable & absurd way, supposedly to protect people with allergies. The predictable result was that food producers calculated that the financial gain from serving that small minority of customers wasn't justified by the enormous costs & risks of attempting to comply with the new regulations, so they eliminated all the products the regulations would apply to by - for example - adding sesame flour into products which formerly had none.
Reagan was right: "The nine most terrifying words in the English Language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
As a lifelong auditor (who hates his life) I’ve always hated how regulators assume businesses exist to comply with regulation rather than, you know, be a business.
Unelected bureaucrats like to imagine themselves to be gods, and their regulations handed down like stone tablets to the pitiable Moses & his golden calf worshiping heathens, sorely in need of divine judgment.
They also love to listen to far-left academics ["experts"] & hate to listen to their victims ["evil capitalist scum who would sell their own grandma for a dollar"].
And their lesson learned from their failure here is never that they fucked up and need to re-assess. No, their response is always "we need to regulate harder".
We must force these companies to provide allergen-free versions of every product they make, for every potential allergy.
If the ADA can result in free videos being removed from a university website/youtube because they don't have subtitles then you can be damn sure the feds will eventually do it for allergens.
I love that the same government that cracks down of illegitimate anti-allergy claims also allows up to 120 insect parts in a 16 oz. jar of peanut butter.
You'd expect corporate lobbyists would have raised objections before the draft was finished.
Democrats care about academic lobbyists not corporate ones for many parts of the deep state. Regulatory capture is a problem with some agencies, but with others like the FDA it's fart sniffing academics & activists capture.
Based on the company responses, or lack thereof, they're too afraid to openly stand up to the moral busybodies.
Few years ago EU forbid selling some 100 watt light bulbs.
Every country complied except Poland. In a matter of a week all polish companies swapped the packaging of old lightbulbs to say '99 watt light bulbs' and EU was powerless to do anything xD
The wattage depends on the line voltage anyway. Seeing a "100W" lightbulb draw from 90-110W isn't at all uncommon depending on filament manufacturing a few volts +/- of line voltage.
Lawful Evil is best Evil.
So the government made a problem where there wasn't really one to begin with. Sounds like their usual MO.
The FDA might be the most retarded Government office, and that is a difficult thing to do. They made the rule with an obvious loophole and are now denying all responsibility despite their poor decision.
like with the baby formula
notice how thenews just stopped talking about that one day?
Once being allergic was seen as a sign of weakness. The individual was meant to learn to deal with it and survive despite that weakness.
Then the mollycoddling began, and now we have Trans pedophilia being normalized.
How many allergics were created because The Science™ told expecting mothers to avoid peanuts and sesame seeds because it could transfer allergies in utero?
How about transforming a few basic, common sense, and actually functional vaccines into a pharmaceutical onslaught of 30 vaccines by the age of six?
Here products have a separate listing of ingredients that might have contaminated the product, which avoids this problem - nobody's getting tricked into buying a product just because it might have traces of peanut, but allergic people know that it's risky.
Refusing to make such allowances, such that the only way a producer can warn allergic customers is by deliberately adulterating their product with sesame, is insane.
"fuck that, we will just put a warning that the product might have peanut contamination"
"okay then we will just put peanuts in everything"
And people wonder why smaller government is better.
Same here, but the way the EU is going it's only a matter of time until they go full retard and force the same shit on us.
^^ This.
I don’t know where you live, but this is the same here, lol…
Much more logical…
Good for them. Unreasonable is unreasonable.
I'm sure the government response will be to create a requirement to sell food product that is free of allergens if they sell products that contain them, or some other similarly stupid shit, because they will never reflect upon the consequences of their shitty legislature and think to roll it back to something reasonable.
There are limits to what the government can do. What you are suggesting would not be legal. Government cannot generally force people to sell certain kinds of products & if they tried, the industry would go nuclear with lobbyists. It would be unprecedented.
We're in an unprecedented era of government overreach. I give it give 5 years, tops, before this happens.
Based on my past history, this really means more like 6 months.
And then the "food safety" retards will complain that their special medical-grade bread costs 10 times as much.
you're the ones with the problem, so make your own food. forcing companies to do expensive and meticulous cleaning for 1.5 million people out of 330+ is retarded and such excess government that everyone involved should be shot.
So the government went "do, or do not, there is no try", and the world went "okay, do, I guess, since 'do' costs nothing and 'do not' costs a ton and generates no profit."
Somehow, this is surprising to the government.
Survival of the Fittest - these sesame allergic fucks can just die off.
... I'm allergic to sesame, amongst other things. I thought my allergy to garlic was tragic.
How did you find out this allergy?
For sesame seed? I took a blood test and found out I have all the allergies.
For Garlic? I was trying to prove I wasn't a vampire.
Sounds like we got a vampire here, boys.
One who really wishes he could eat Garlic.
Leftism in a nutshell.
Well, maybe the "road to hell" progressives should stop catch-22-ing companies? This is all on their overreaching regulations.
Just wait until the government bans food altogether because muh allergens.
Good work, men, you solved "allergic people."