Comment by sokoloff
4 years ago
How long until you end up with Proposition 65-style warnings that products may contain trace amounts of every food product?
Today, if I’m severely allergic, I might assume product X has a trace amount of my allergen. Tomorrow, I might assume the same thing, only now I can read it on a label.
Except what good does that do you if a pinch of "blended allergen" is added to almost everything?
It makes food products continue to be as cheap and available as they currently are for everyone who can tolerate a pinch of blended allergen.
Basically, it does about as much good as the Prop-65 labels do.
(Note that this sub-thread seems to be talking about the "what if we didn't [effectively] make it better for manufacturers to intentionally include the pinch of allergens, but instead just allowed them to label the possibility of trace cross-contamination?")
Which was my point. It adds a small hoop for manufacturers/bakers to jump through and people who have actual allergies are no better off--and arguably marginally worse off--than before.
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