Comment by moregrist
4 years ago
I’m pretty sure that allowing companies to slip legal liability with a “might contain” which just result in boilerplate for all allergies which isn’t helpful to anyone.
I’m glad your allergies aren’t so severe. But minimizing contact isn’t enough for people who are deathly allergic to peanuts or sesame, where the best case for exposure is an epi-pen shot and a trip to the ER. It’s not so much asking for padded walls as enough information to allow people to live without fear of dying because of something they ate.
Every kid deserves an education without fear of being killed by some other kid’s snack. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to just eat their PB&J at home.
Why should they have legal liability in the first place for small amount of cross-contaminated ingredients?
Regardless, listing ingredients they aren’t willing to affirm aren’t in their products is helpful. It identifies products that aren’t for sure safe which is what you want.
> I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to just eat their PB&J at home.
What's the cost benefit analysis here? That the kid does not get to share the food?
Would touching someone that ate a PBJ be enough to trigger an episode? In what percentage of people?
How can you just say something like that without also stating a model? Without percentages and numbers?
> I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to just eat their PB&J at home.
Totally get that. Others do think that's too much to ask though, and I'm sure there are cases where you'd disagree with their "not too much to ask" in return.
I didn't say boilerplate for all allergies... I specifically stated, that the mfg should list allergens the facility handles, but aren't ingredients. That warning should be sufficient to state that it may not be safe for the allergens in question.
I'm sure actually adding allergens to food and labeling them is a much better solution after-all.
Why, because nobody is going to make 10 mfg facilities each avoiding a different singular ingredient.