ITT: lots of people wondering why this is an issue at all when obviously butter contains milk.
It’s because the company can effectively print whatever they like for the name of the product with no regard to the actual ingredients. A consumer needs to know what they’re actually buying because of things like allergies and intolerances.
In this case, and depending on the severity of the allergy, that missing ingredient warning could cause someone a bad case of the farts or something as serious as anaphylactic shock.
This being said, I’d still agree that people not wanting to consume milk should stick to products with positive confirmation that it is milk-free.
It’s because the company can effectively print whatever they like for the name of the product with no regard to the actual ingredients.
That is not true at all. There are laws that determine what you can actually put on your products, especially on food.
Yes. And Costco (inadvertently) broke them here. Hence the recall.
That was the point. If we let companies ignore the law when it “should be obvious”, that gives them a lot of wiggle room to really fuck us over. And nobody wants that
Ok fine, yes you are correct in that you can’t advertise a packet of staples as a frozen turkey crown, but you’re also arguing about a different scope. Apologies for speaking like a human on lemmy and not some sort of weird internet law robot.
This is a demonstration of what I’m talking about. To save you the click, this pack of ‘deli fresh’ turkey breast makes no mention of the cornstarch, dextrose or vinegar listed on the ingredients label. ‘Deli fresh’ is itself artistic license, as the product is packaged in plastic and not being served fresh from a deli.
people not wanting to consume milk should stick to products with positive confirmation that it is milk-free.
So maybe like a package of butter that doesn’t have milk in the ingredients list?
Any reason you conveniently left out the start of the sentence you’ve quoted? Because the bit you’ve left out changes the tone pretty significantly.
In this particular situation I’d deem positive confirmation to be something like a vegan certification, as opposed to the absence of something.
Combine the absence of milk from the ingredients on something advertising itself as butter with no other distinguishing information and that adds up to suspicion for me.
That’s not a positive confirmation.
I’ll start the bidding for 24lb at $0.10/lb
lol, right! I’ll take all of it for pennie’s.
Weird, is there a crackdown on this sort of thing or did someone really mess up big? I was actually called by my foodstore today to let me know that liptons French onion soup mix was recalled because it didn’t list that it has egg in it and my records show that I had purchased this. I don’t know if I ever saw this kind of recall before let alone twice in the same day.
I subscribed to FSIS updates and this happens pretty often. Allergen labels are taken pretty seriously. And they send out notifications when they come across one. 🤷🏼♀️
You have an intimate relationship with your grocer.
Automated message based off rewards card info. Still it’s the first time I ever got that and thought it was odd. At least you get something for giving away all your info to everyone.
80,000 pounds is slightly over two tractor trailers’ worth. For the whole country, that’s not a big deal.
And that small batch had a label with a different list of ingredients/allergens somehow? I’m curious how that happened.
Printer stopped working, or it got misaligned to the paper, and just the allergen message was cut off. Perhaps.
Not sure that butter can be said to contain milk by the FDA’s definition of milk. So they’ll need to recall it again after adding that label.
Most people aren’t going to bring the butter back in.
Put poison in the food that’s ok
and it probably gets thrown out then the price jacked up on the next batch
High chance a sticker is placed on them that addresses the issue.
Imperfect Foods now turned Misfit Marketplace type services usually sell items like that. But I don’t see them as being any cheaper.
They should have waited a Couple Months! This type of thing will NEVER happen under Trump! He’s Protecting us (from accidentally ingesting a potential Poison depending on the Person!)!
