there is so much crust to cut off this shit sandwich. you know what? cut it all.
Gubment cain’t tell me whut ta do!
Didn’t a bunch of companies add sesame to their products because it’s easier to not comply with the laws about labelling stuff?
I haven’t seen one iota of evidence that any company did that at all, only that they added sesame to ingredients lists in order to comply with the law. Previously, sesame was often just included on recipes under “spices,” so some of it’s just actually explicitly labeling things that were there the entire time.
The nonprofit that wrote the law claims that this means that these companies began intentionally adding sesame to their products in order to cheap out on guaranteeing no cross contamination could ever be possible in any factory. The reality is much more likely that they’re just putting it on the printed ingredients list to get out of having to prevent cross contamination, rather than intentionally reworking all of their recipes for everything in such a way that is entirely un-noticeable.
why isn’t the labelling requirement something like “processed on machines that process sesame seeds” like the generous peanut one?
No idea. For whatever reason, the FDA guidelines for the law that passed requires that if sesame is present it must be explicitly listed in the ingredients list, and if a “Contains” statement is already listed after the ingredients list, sesame must be added to that list. Here’s the law in full.
Here is the consumer education material for the FDA guidelines.
I, too, have a modest proposal to make.
