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The change in the law makes that insufficient to eliminate the liability. It isn't a matter of labeling but the cost of eliminating any possibility of cross con
by willnonya 4y ago
The change in the law makes that insufficient to eliminate the liability. It isn't a matter of labeling but the cost of eliminating any possibility of cross contamination.
- nkozyra 4y agoRight, I'm not saying it absolves the company, just that putting it in the ingredients list isn't helpful or honest, either. New labeling law doesn't fix anything here.
- sokoloff 4y agoHow is it not honest? It's not helpful, but it seems perfectly honest (assuming the product actually contains the ingredients listed.)
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoIf I see sesame in an ingredients list, and I discover that really means “we don’t deep clean the oven conveyer after cooking sesame products”, I think I’d feel at least a little tricked.
- sokoloff 4y agoThat's not what it means in this case. In this case, it means that "we intentionally added some otherwise-not-needed sesame to the product, in order to comply with this law and the truth-in-labeling laws."
- wtvanhest 4y agoIt also means they don’t feel confident enough in their cleaning process and would prefer to add cost to their manufacturing process than to ensure clean machines
- sokoloff 4y agoI'm pretty sure the producers involved understand their costs better than you or I and have concluded the optimal outcome is to add an epsilon of sesame cost than a multiple of that of additional decontamination cost.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoIn this specific hypothetical, sure. Or it could mean the conveyor next to it uses lots of sesame oil and they can’t guarantee every single particle stayed in that belt. Or it could mean the conveyor on the other side of the factory is and they don’t want to risk it. Nobody knows the specific reasoning a company has for adding it in unless they had insider info from the company itself. Everything else is pure speculation.
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoHave you ever cleaned up sesame seeds? The article's "remove all the sand" analogy is exactly on point - they're tiny and get stuck tight in every available crack. No normal cleaning process is going to remove all of them.
- likpok 4y agoCompanies can’t just put it in the ingredients list, that would also be illegal. They need to actually add it to the product.