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Summary: A new law substantially increases liability for making a sesame free product. The predictable result was that there are now fewer sesame free products
by raymondh 4y ago
Summary: A new law substantially increases liability for making a sesame free product. The predictable result was that there are now fewer sesame free products. Now, everyone is worse off.
- Drblessing 4y agoWell stated. Bring back personal responsibility.
- drewrv 4y agoHow can someone be "personally responsible" if there are not accurate food labeling laws?
- wardedVibe 4y agoNo, there's so much secret sesame that you don't know is there that even with the range of hypothetical options lessened, there are more foods you know are safe now. My partner, who has a sesame allergy, had basically sworn off preprepared food because there's no way to tell. At least now she knows what's safe.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoMandating a "may contain traces of sesame" would provide just as much protection without requiring adding the sesame and denying it to those of us that aren't going to be killed by a bit of cross contamination.
- bsder 4y agoWithout quantifying and controlling the amount of sesame, that's not useful information. That's why these foods added the sesame--now it's measured, quantified, and controlled. Someone with a mild allergy can try the food and see what the reaction is. If it's fine, then that food can be eaten knowing that the sesame level likely will be consistent. People with severe allergies will avoid that food like always. This is a good thing and the complaints make me facepalm. "Gee, now we can experiment and know what this food will do to us as opposed to playing Russian roulette every time. This upsets us and we're going to complain." Oh, gee, what you really wanted was everybody to surgically clean their manufacturing lines but not pay them any extra money for doing so? So sorry, that's not how this works.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoAnd that's what everyone with an allergy should do - take their destiny in their own hands and stop relying on labels and on nanny state. Buy unprocessed food, bake your own bread, it's not that hard.
- wardedVibe 4y agofuck off dude, we literally do that. It's exhausting. Is it really such an imposition to have labels?
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoI'm a diabetic. 90% of supermarket food is dangerous for me. There are no labels on apples telling me they have sugar. It's on me to count calories and carbo in my food.
- wardedVibe 4y agoI am too (T1). There are in fact mandates to tell us the amount of carbs in a given food. That's how you can count carbohydrates in your food. Raw fruits and vegetables have an exception because that's public information. Unlike the amount of sesame, which frequently gets added under the label "spices" so unless we legally require them to label it, there's no way to know.