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.
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.