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It was a good idea to start. List ingredients and warn of allergens! Very helpful. But a stray sesame seed gets into something and somebody gets a reaction and
by JoeAltmaier 2y ago
It was a good idea to start. List ingredients and warn of allergens! Very helpful.
But a stray sesame seed gets into something and somebody gets a reaction and they sue. Essentially it went from "list allergens" to "If you don't list something, that's a hard promise it won't be in there"
See the difference? You can be diligent about keeping allergens out, but bakeries are big places with lots of equipment being used for lots of things. They can be diligent and still occasionally something gets in there - a tiny seed, stuck by static electricity to a paddle etc.
I suggest, to return some sanity to all this, that food preparers have a standard for diligence. If they meet it, then the occasional sesame seed is deemed a reasonable risk and to be understood. That civil cases can't be held limitlessly responsible for everybody's health.