Let's be fair...if they've truly come up with a better, or at least equivalent but different, way of maintaining food hygiene that's more efficient that isn't b

Let's be fair...if they've truly come up with a better, or at least equivalent but different, way of maintaining food hygiene that's more efficient that isn't being accepted because of regulatory ossification, then yeah, that needs to be addressed. But I'd bet you're exactly right, and it's just "we're betting there's not going to be a major food poisoning incident before we find an exit and make it someone else's problem".