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posted by martyb on Thursday October 05 2017, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the depends-on-what-you-are-cooking-up dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/fda-declares-there-s-no-love-in-granola-warns-bakery-company

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released a warning letter to Nashoba Brook Bakery, reprimanding the West Concord, Massachusetts-based baker and wholesaler about the ingredients it lists in its granola.

One, in particular.

"Your Nashoba Granola label lists ingredient 'Love,'" the agency wrote in the Sept. 22 letter. "'Love' is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient."

Nashoba Chief Executive Officer John Gates said the FDA's take on love as an ingredient "just felt so George Orwell."

Ars Technica additionally reports that was not all that the FDA found:

During a recent bakery inspection, FDA agents discovered: dirt and filth caked onto ceiling vents and sprinklers directly above ready-to-eat foods; parts of the floor and ceiling that were missing for some reason; equipment, including bowls and cooling racks, that wasn't cleaned or maintained; and counters, shelves, and food production surfaces that were coated with an unknown residue.

Insects also proved worrisome. At one point, an FDA inspector noticed a one-inch-long, unidentified crawling insect directly underneath a batch of pastries. Last, the FDA reported that employees weren't following proper hygiene practices. One baker repeatedly dipped a blue bracelet into raw dough while mixing it.

For your reading pleasure, here is the warning letter.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 05 2017, @03:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 05 2017, @03:35PM (#577473)

    Made with 50 micrograms of love 😉❤

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @12:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @12:16AM (#577714)

    These guys took it the other direction 5 decades ago.

    Vintage TV Commercial for Welch's Jelly and Jam [youtube.com]

    This vintage TV commercial is from the late 1960s and is for Welch's jellies and jams. The advertisement shows us a mother in earlier times shopping at the market for the freshest fruit to make her own jellies and jams, then compares that to Welch's methods.

    "We couldn't match a mother's love," the ad says, "so we added extra flavor."

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