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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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 05 2017, @05:03PM (4 children)
Entirely agreed. There is advertising feel-good fluff, and there is technical information. If they put "love" in the official label, then it necessarily must be taken both seriously and literally, as people can and should rely on the truth and accuracy of the ingredient list.
Your example of putting in harmful ingredients under the moniker of "love" is a great example. Another would be the damning-by-false-implication effect, as illustrated at: https://www.xkcd.com/641/ [xkcd.com]
There is a time and place for cute and funny things, and government mandated and enforced technical documentation is not one of them.
As a side note, I expect that if the bakery had passed everything else with flying-colors, then the FDA wouldn't have bothered. I expect this was one of those "so long as we are sending them a note anyway, we should mention this as well."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday October 05 2017, @05:14PM (3 children)
> government mandated and enforced technical documentation is not one of them
Where's our friendly neighborhood Violently Imposed Monopoly troll lurking, when we properly need to denounce the inability to formally list love as an ingredient?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 05 2017, @07:16PM (1 child)
He died after eating a tainted batch of sausage. Karma's a beeeee-yitch.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 05 2017, @10:25PM
No TMB is just taking a break since last being outed for his AC behavior.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 05 2017, @09:28PM
I came to the comments especially to find out how the neighbourhood libertarians were going to explain how food hygiene rules violate businesses' freedoms, and how the market will correct these sorts of problems without onerous rules.