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The fucking morons in Congress passed a law declaring sesame seeds to be a major allergen.
When something is such, you have some not-insubstantial costs associated with compliance to show that any machine or facility which uses or processes that allergen doesn't cross contaminate foods which are free of said allergens.
It doesn't ban the allergen from being processed or sold, just makes it very expensive to produce non-allergen foods in the same facility.
The fucking morons in Congress wrote the law (or the regulatory agency regulated, not sure which is the horse or cart here) so that warning people there might be allergens in their goods is not good enough.
You either clean the line to the insane standards of the regulations, or...
Here's where it gets good.
You make sure you have a minimum percentage of the allergen so that you can list it in the ingredients list.
Several fast food companies have done the latter.
Golf clap?
Golf clap!
This is being reported as if the food processors had found a loophole to avoid ridding their equipment of the allergen.
Well, yes and no.
They are getting out of the cleaning by becoming allergen only processors. They increased the amount of the allergen in their products because it's an all or nothing deal with this law/regulation.
The level of compliance is unreasonable.
I'd have been happy with a warning if I had a food allergy... Hey, wait, I do!
Mushrooms get an ingredient listing, so I look for it and don't eat it. I ask about mushrooms of my server and if they can't separate my food from the mushroom entree, I say thanks and go eat someplace else.
By the way, thanks to other congressional and regulatory bullshit, avoiding mushrooms is getting harder because they're being added as a "other natural ingredient" into packages to enhance the savoriness of foods. This is because regulation is attacking fat content.
But this is just an ongoing effort to have government replace our mothers and never letting us grow up and be responsible for our own lives.
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