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My understanding is this allergen over-labeling was inspired by the FDA in the first place. https://www.fastcompany.com/90830854/sesame-seed-allergen-fd... From the linked article (from Jan 2023): But sesame does differ in one distinct way from eggs, peanuts, shellfish, milk, and soy: The seeds are teeny tiny and hard to keep track of. This means they’re prone to “cross-contamination,” in food-allergy terms. If you o…
This feels like it’s going the way of prop 65. To be on the safe side, everything gets the label, thus making the label pointless -it no longer helps differentiating things.
FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label ( https://bimbobakeriesusa.com/our-brands )
>when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label Are those those the only brands they produce? I only recognize 3 of those brands, and I can't even be sure I've ever eaten more than one of those. Maybe they are big only in certain regions?
No, the five brands explicitly marked as a non-exhaustive list (with “such as”) are not, even close to, all of their brands.
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> in China the word for bread (面包, miànbāo) is similar to ['Bimbo'] Err.. ish? About as similar as 'Hacker News' and 'cake her knees', anyway?
They are slant rhymes of one another. B and M are phonetically nearby, as are ia and ih and ao and ou. In no way like hacker news and cake her knees -- but more like hacker news and hagger moos ;)
Then 'im' is read flat and not like 'ià'.
Of course 'bo' is quite like 'bāo', but that's your 'ish'.
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This feels like it’s going the way of prop 65. To be on the safe side, everything gets the label, thus making the label pointless -it no longer helps differentiating things.
No, I see canned peaches with a P65 label and I see canned peaches without them. Same for fried snacks.
What proportion of these labels are false positives?
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No, I see canned peaches with a P65 label and I see canned peaches without them. Same for fried snacks.
Are those labels based on periodic random testing or based on risk avoidance? What proportion of these labels are false positives?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide
in some foods.
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Doesn’t this open up the market for a newcomer to make verified sesame-free bread?
No. That market is too small to target. Overregulation is affecting consumer choices.
"Fine. Now _everything_ has Sesame in it. What are you going to do? _Settle_ with us?"
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> It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though. I think they mostly only sell bimbo-branded goods in spanish language shops (where the brand would help sell). In, say, Safeway you only see the US brands they have acquired, at least where I live.
They actually have the Bimbo brand on the soccer jerseys for the Philadelphia Union which probably isn't good for the team's jersey sales.
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Indeed and pretty disingenuous from the bakeries. Mislabelling as containing allergens when it does not can lead to a false sense of security or comfort in consumers. In that they may potentially consume an item and discover that it is labelled for the allergen, and subsequently assume that the lack of a reaction indicates tolerance. Potentially, leading them to consume accurately labelled products expecting the same…
If I'm understanding you correctly, the concern is that someone who has e.g. a peanut allergy will eat product A which is labeled as containing peanuts despite not having any, and then decide they must not be allergic so they can eat product B which is also labeled as containing peanuts but actually has them, and have a bad outcome? This seems a stretch. If the person is eating food labeled as containing an allergen,…