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FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient

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

takyun writes:

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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Original Submission

• FDA response to this (Score: 5, Informative) by EvilSS on Thursday October 05 2017, @06:03PM

  by EvilSS (1456) on Thursday October 05 2017, @06:03PM (#577551)

  So the FDA responded to all the hubbub about the "love" ingredient pointing out that yes, they told them to stop it but it's a minor part of the compliance letter and they are more concerned with the overall unsanitary conditions they found

  “This is an example of a company whose actions — or lack of actions — put their customers’ health at unnecessary risk,” an FDA spokesperson said in a statement to Consumerist. “The information about ‘love’ as a listed ingredient was included, but is not among the agency’s top concerns, and focusing only on that particular violation detracts from the multitude of serious violations reflected in this letter.”

  The FDA says it expects the company to “correct the serious violations found on FDA’s inspection, as noted in the warning letter.”

  https://consumerist.com/2017/10/04/fda-tells-bakery-love-is-not-an-actual-ingredient-in-your-granola/ [consumerist.com]
  
  Honestly if I were the bakery I'd kept my mouth shut and fixed it. This is just bringing more attention to the rest of the violations.

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