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Stupid food labelling. Food labelling for dummies.
jra
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Two of the latest I've seen.
On a jar of peanut butter, under allergy advice. Contains peanuts!
On a pack of sausages, labelled clearly as '8 Thick Pork Sausages', approximately 8 sausages per bag!
Name yours.
On a jar of peanut butter, under allergy advice. Contains peanuts!
On a pack of sausages, labelled clearly as '8 Thick Pork Sausages', approximately 8 sausages per bag!
Name yours.
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A Garibaldi type biscuit that claims to have a 100% fruit filling. The declaration shows there's only 3% fruit in the filling. The rest is sugar, gelatine and a trainload of E-numbers. However, a loophole in the EU food labeling regulations makes this legal. After all the filling is 100% of the filling.
So called light products that indeed have a 30% reduction in fat that merits a "light" label, but contain enough sugar to keep a whole playgroup jumping around for days on end.
On a tin clearly labelled 'Wild Pacific pink salmon', allergy advice, 'contains fish'.
On a packet of crisps.
Contains : Wheat, barley, gluten.
May contain: Milk, egg, soya, mustard.
Well does it or doesn't it.
It's just ridiculous.
On my next loaf of bread it might say.
Contains: Bread.
May contain: A £20 note, a porn star with big tits, a 747 jet airliner, a great white shark, a tw*t called Boris, Cherie Blair's pubic hairs.
FFS.
Potential factory contamination, it's not ridiculous when people eating it may have severe allergies.
All well and good giving allergy advice, but factory contamination doesn't sit well with me. Nor do insect hairs, rodent hairs, cockroach droppings and various other things, which get into our food apparently, but are considered 'collateral damage', as in 'additional but subordinate'.
This, definitely.
These 'I'm so clever' food labelling threads are usually written by people living in blissful ignorance of what it's like to try and eat with food allergies. Good for you if you don't need to know that something may contain traces of egg. I do, if I want to avoid a trip to hospital.
And they wouldn't list whether a product contains things like porn stars or whatever - there's an agreed list of common allergens that have to be noted on food and for me it's a life saver. So just because you find it all a bit beneath you probably means you're very fortunate to be able to eat what you like.
This annoys me intensely. I want to see the recipe there in the shop before I buy it so I can see what else I need to buy and only when I know that will I decide to buy it.
There is no point in going home, peeling off the label and then finding you need to buy other items to go with it! Grrrrrr
To be fair until I started suffering from allergies myself I didn't get the (what I saw as ) daft labelling. It's only when a tiny touch of a substance can kill you it suddenly becomes clear they are just trying to keep everyone safe.
It's a shame the bakery departments in supermarkets don't have this attitude I was nearly killed by a fresh loaf of bread because someone handled strawberries before bagging the loaf up.
or maybe with a sprig of fresh pasley - just in case you expecting to peel back the lid and fins one there
What's to stop you peeling it off in the shop?
What's stupid about that?
If I eat celery I get blisters all around the inside of my mouth, down my throat and in my stomach. It really isn't pleasant, and something these labels allow me to avoid
With a sprig of parsley!
"May contain egg"
I should bleedin well hope so
This thread isn't about having a go at people allergic to certain types of food. Far from it. However, you've got to admit that putting 'contains fish' under allergy advice on a tin of fish (for example) is pretty daft to say the least.
I think it may be because they have to by law.
Exactly. Of course we all know a tin of fish contains fish, but they have to be consistent and label absolutely everything. It means we all know where we are and can trust food labelling.
People are not always as smart as you think - I've spoken to three different people recently who didn't know that margarine contained dairy!
Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but I find that unbelievable from my perspective, as in being at least a little bit informed.
After all, it's just a matter of reading the ingredients in most cases.
Contains Milk
Fair enough
Warning: Contains nuts
That's because peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes. The nuts they're referring to are tree nuts, like hazelnuts, almonds etc. This sort of labelling is really important as I'm not allergic to peanuts but I am allergic to other nuts, which means I couldn't eat your bag of peanuts. Good grief, people really need educating here!