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>As with so much regarding food safety, the USDA, which makes the rules, and the FDA, which is meant to enforce them, are nowhere to be found. These institution
by marcoperaza 10y ago
>As with so much regarding food safety, the USDA, which makes the rules, and the FDA, which is meant to enforce them, are nowhere to be found. These institutions routinely cite cost-cutting and low staff.
Hmm. Maybe the better solution is to give consumers legal standing, with massive punitive damages, to sue restaurants to mislabeling food. Even better, make it a strict liability tort (i.e. no need to prove intent or negligence) if the restaurant is notified but doesn't clean up their act. Also, let the restaurants sue up the supply chain.
I bet that after the first restaurant or supplier loses a multi-million dollar lawsuit for pretending to serve Kobe beef or white tuna, the problem will solve itself.
- venomsnake 10y agoMost of that mislabeling is legal. Unless there is standard set by the USDA/FDA marketing has free reign. I can totally call my salmon "purplefin tuna"
- marcoperaza 10y agoI'm skeptical, but if so, it sounds like another aspect of the law that needs to be changed. Definitions can be tricky, but the difficulty in drawing an exact line doesn't necessarily matter. There will be plenty of cases where the line has clearly been crossed. And sure, give the defendant the benefit of the doubt in those cases where it's a close call.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoWhat stops it from being fraud?