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I also wondered if they didn't just start labeling as such since they couldn't guarantee that things didn't get contaminated with sesame. "This product is made

• metalcrow 1y ago
  That's literally exactly the reason why they did it. They made their food in a factory that also has sesame, and instead of building an entire new factory for only one item (which is expensive and might not even be financially viable in some cases), some companies did exactly that due to the FDA regulation change.
• nullc 1y ago
  They did that initially, then the FDA started threatening companies that did that, so they responded by actually adding the sesame.
  • dylan604 1y ago
    See, that's just stupid on the FDA's part. What did they expect them to do? The FDA's job is not to tell bakeries that they must produce sesame free products. They can only regulate that if there might be sesame in the product, then the product must be labeled as such. If a company wants to make some products with sesame and some without sesame while not being able to guarantee that there is no sesame contamination, then stating that on the label is the best option. Definitely feels like overreach to me, and slapping the overreaching hand is not a bad thing. That overreach is not valid reason for shuttering the overreaching agency though.