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Hope they get good liability insurance.
by kashnikov 13y ago
Hope they get good liability insurance.
- ubercore 13y agoCould anyone actually (successfully) hold them liable? I'd think it would be their suppliers that would need liability insurance, since they're just repackaging already-approved food items.
- gamblor956 13y agoYes, it's basic tort law. They're not just repacking food items, they're combining them in a non-reversible manner. This essentially makes them the manufacturer. Consequently, they will have opened themselves up to liability for every ingredient they use. (But they may be able to go after a supplier for indemnification depending on the circumstances.
- ubercore 13y agoThanks for the clarification! That makes now that I think about it more. I was thinking more along the lines of product manufacturing, which I think is less stringent (honestly I may be wrong there too).
- rdouble 13y agoSupplement companies get sued all the time.
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- joonix 13y agoNo. Products liability. Everyone in the "chain" can be liable including retailers and manufactureres.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoYour comment is precisely why people write the next twitter for facebook instead of curing cancer or solving hunger.
- guywithabike 13y agoSoylent isn't curing cancer or solving hunger. They're selling meal replacement drinks, which is a large, established market.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoComputers were large established market once, but you could not buy one home. I don't see meal replacement drinks in food stores around, don't think those would be off-the-shelf no-brainer anyway. It creates a new market.