I’m saddened to hear that French supermarkets were doing something that stupid. Most of the rest of the world doesn’t do that. I also don’t know how that law is

I’m saddened to hear that French supermarkets were doing something that stupid. Most of the rest of the world doesn’t do that. I also don’t know how that law is supposed to work; when I worked in a grocery store as a teenager, most of the food I threw away was rotten or moldy. There’s no way I would willingly give that food to a charity. Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps the bleach was just an attempt to cut down the amount of mold spores people were exposed to. The problem isn’t a lack of regulation either. The problem is just humans making mistakes. A human decided to try to sell product X, but couldn’t do so. Their stock was sitting in a warehouse racking up storage fees, and it would also cost money to ship it somewhere else. Adding regulations won’t reduce the number of mistakes that people make, it will only increase the cost of those mistakes. That cost will simply be passed along to the rest of us, making everything more expensive to buy.