Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
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Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#2Offtopic:
Just posted a link to this on Facebook.
When I did, it auto-filled the headline as:
>Mars has 'widened its recall to 55 countries' - BBC News
and the teaser:
>The Netherlands spokesman for chocolate maker Mars says it has widened its recall of Mars and Snickers bars to 55 countries after bits of plastic are found in a product.
which don't match the actual article. Wonder what the deal with their caching is.
Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#3Offtopic: Just posted a link to this on Facebook. When I did, it auto-filled the headline as: >Mars has 'widened its recall to 55 countries' - BBC News and the teaser: >The Netherlands spokesman for chocolate maker Mars says it has widened its recall of Mars and Snickers bars to 55 countries after bits of plastic are found in a product. which don't match the actual article. Wonder what the deal with their caching is.
Not really caching but as far as I remember there are HTML Open Graph tags that Facebook checks for in order to fetch the title/description etc.
Check N°3 on this link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#4Offtopic: Just posted a link to this on Facebook. When I did, it auto-filled the headline as: >Mars has 'widened its recall to 55 countries' - BBC News and the teaser: >The Netherlands spokesman for chocolate maker Mars says it has widened its recall of Mars and Snickers bars to 55 countries after bits of plastic are found in a product. which don't match the actual article. Wonder what the deal with their caching is.
Not really caching but as far as I remember there are HTML Open Graph tags that Facebook checks for in order to fetch the title/description etc. Check N°3 on this link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
Good to know. I wonder how those ended up differing.
Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#5Offtopic: Just posted a link to this on Facebook. When I did, it auto-filled the headline as: >Mars has 'widened its recall to 55 countries' - BBC News and the teaser: >The Netherlands spokesman for chocolate maker Mars says it has widened its recall of Mars and Snickers bars to 55 countries after bits of plastic are found in a product. which don't match the actual article. Wonder what the deal with their caching is.
Not really caching but as far as I remember there are HTML Open Graph tags that Facebook checks for in order to fetch the title/description etc. Check N°3 on this link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
And AFAIK the caching will run for about 30 days unless you clear it manually or through the API. Might be different for major sites.
Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really caching but as far as I remember there are HTML Open Graph tags that Facebook checks for in order to fetch the title/description etc. Check N°3 on this link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
And AFAIK the caching will run for about 30 days unless you clear it manually or through the API. Might be different for major sites.
Yeah, it caches the preview.
As mentioned in that doc, you can use the URL Debugger[1] to see the Open Graph data and even clear the cache.
I cleared the cache for the OP's BBC URL, try sharing it again and see what info you get.
Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really caching but as far as I remember there are HTML Open Graph tags that Facebook checks for in order to fetch the title/description etc. Check N°3 on this link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
Good to know. I wonder how those ended up differing.
I assume what you saw was the BBC's title and summary at the time it was first shared (and thus cached) on Facebook. They've since edited it but FB keeps the cached version since the URI hasn't changed.
Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#8It's an amazing example of how well engineered the mass produced food producers are.
Something as silly as a piece of plastic in one bit of their food (common sort of thing in low end producers, like hand made) equals a mass recall.
It's why food these days from McDonalds etc is so safe (from immediate harm)
Mass produced engineering is pretty cool.
Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#9It's an amazing example of how well engineered the mass produced food producers are. Something as silly as a piece of plastic in one bit of their food (common sort of thing in low end producers, like hand made) equals a mass recall. It's why food these days from McDonalds etc is so safe (from immediate harm) Mass produced engineering is pretty cool.
Evaluate more options.
Could this little plastic bit not be the problem and the actual problem be the real cause for the recall?
They have to track back the origin of the plastic piece.
-maybe the tiny piece is not the problem?
-maybe the tiny piece is not the problem but consumer
perspective and therefore cheaper to recall than
image damage?
-maybe the piece belongs to something wearing out
and the possibility of something (a chemical for example)
being introduce is a possibility (and therefore a
legal demand?)?
-maybe there is no problem, but is better to recall than
to have x reports on a non existing problem.Re: Chocolate maker Mars has ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries
#10It's an amazing example of how well engineered the mass produced food producers are. Something as silly as a piece of plastic in one bit of their food (common sort of thing in low end producers, like hand made) equals a mass recall. It's why food these days from McDonalds etc is so safe (from immediate harm) Mass produced engineering is pretty cool.
100% agreed re McDonalds. Not only that, its healthiness is easy to verify since all the ingredients and nutrition data is available. Good luck finding out how much saturated fat is in the dish at that posh restaurant everyone queues up for!