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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: 5, Insightful) by istartedi on Thursday October 05 2017, @05:35PM (2 children)
The way the letter expressed it may have been a bit clumsy. It's stupid booracrat language; but it's not censorship or oppression. The ingredient list is serious business. Consumers expect it to be accurate. If you let one company start mucking around with that, next thing you know it'll be full of cuteness, magic, etc. and it will just be an annoying thing to read instead of what it's supposed to be: a standardized list of ingredients.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday October 05 2017, @08:28PM (1 child)
> next thing you know it'll be full of cuteness, magic, etc. and it will just be an annoying thing to read
It's already a pain to read. But at least you can.
Let "love" slide, and before you know it you'll have a page of marketing bullshit fuzzy words used to conceal the arsenic, lead and depleted uranium they put in there to save five cents.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @06:13AM
Depleted uranium has been heavily processed. It's unhealthy. Natural uranium is much better.