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FSogol

(45,488 posts)
2. Recently the FDA went after a company that listed "love" as an ingredient.
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 12:48 PM
Dec 2017

I'm guessing Aunt Ginas Cookies will be getting a cease and desist letter for being too clever.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-love-granola-ingredient-20171004-story.html

sl8

(13,786 posts)
3. Could be, but the FDA gave that company a laundry list of violations.
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 12:59 PM
Dec 2017
https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2017/ucm577393.htm


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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected your ready-to-eat manufacturing facility located at 152 Commonwealth Ave. Concord, MA, 01742 from May 25 through June 8, 2017. During the inspection, FDA investigators observed serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulation for foods, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 110 [21 CFR Part 110].[1] At the conclusion of the inspection, you were issued a Form FDA-483, Inspectional Observations, which documented insanitary conditions in your facility at the time of the inspection. To date we have not received a written response to the FDA Form 483, List of Inspectional Observations which was issued.

Failure to manufacture foods in accordance with the CGMP requirements in 21 CFR Part 110 renders your firm's food products adulterated within the meaning of Section 402(a)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. § 342(a)(4)], in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby they may have been rendered injurious to heath.

Additionally, during the inspection our investigators obtained the labels that your firm uses for your Nashoba Granola product. We have reviewed your labels and identified violations of the food labeling regulations, 21 CFR Part 101, which causes the products discussed below to be misbranded within the meaning of Section 403 of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 343].

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They might very well eliminate "love" from ingredient labels, but it looks like that was among the least of the problems they found with Nashoba Brook Bakery.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
6. "But officer, how can you possibly cite us for that?"
Fri Dec 8, 2017, 01:36 AM
Dec 2017

"It says right on the label, 'may contain feces; insects or insect parts; rodent parts or whole rodents to include mice, rats, bats, squirrels, guinea pigs, capybaras, hamsters or gerbils; larks' vomit; crunchy, raw, unboned, real, dead frogs; microorganisms to include salmonella, gonorrhea bacteria, e.coli or ebola; various hand tools and small parts of the equipment used to process this item; loose asbestos insulation that fell off the factory pipes and into the vat; or parts of the carcasses of our employees after they fell into the process equipment due to our absolute refusal to install handrails and fall protection.' It is obvious that human testicles fit within the ingredient statement on that package, so what, exactly, is the big fucking deal?"

surrealAmerican

(11,361 posts)
5. It can't contain very much love ...
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 08:02 PM
Dec 2017

... since the ingredients are always listed in order by quantity - unless it's very lightweight love.

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