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Nearly 80,000 pounds of Costco butter recalled for missing 'Contains Milk statement': FDA
(www.usatoday.com)
Put poison in the food that’s ok
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
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I understand the "slippery slope" issue but what an insane waste of food just over liability and pointing out the obvious.
As a person with allergies to specific foods, then don't make this mistake. Measure twice, cut once. These rules were written in blood, and tiniest violin for companies who fail it.
Yeah I guess a solution that reduces food waste while also being safe for people with milk allergies and intolerances would be to slap a big ass "contains milk" sticker on the label, maybe covering up the barcode so that 1) it can't be sold without the sticker, and 2) they can sell it at a discount. But that's probably bad for costco's image or whatever
It's not as bad as you think. Grocery stores will just send it back to the manufacturer and re-sticker it.
What a waste of fuel and cause of extra pollutants for nothing
It isn't over nothing, though. Allergen information was missing.
Sure, it seems silly in this case, but not enforcing it also leaves wiggle-room that you really don't want for food labelling, otherwise companies could just start leaving stuff out of it because it's "obvious".
No-one with a nut allergy wants to be unexpectedly landed in the morgue because the company didn't put "contains cashews" in the label for their satay, since it's obvious, as nearly every satay sauce on the market contains cashews.
Oof, so to prove your point, I always thought satay was peanuts.
send it back
Just pay the end companies to put stickers on it
What about putting a sticker over it?
If I were a customer who purchased this, I would just ignore it. I assume many will do the same. It isn't worth dealing with if it isn't an issue for you.
ITT: lots of people wondering why this is an issue at all when obviously butter contains milk.
It’s because the company can effectively print whatever they like for the name of the product with no regard to the actual ingredients. A consumer needs to know what they’re actually buying because of things like allergies and intolerances.
In this case, and depending on the severity of the allergy, that missing ingredient warning could cause someone a bad case of the farts or something as serious as anaphylactic shock.
This being said, I’d still agree that people not wanting to consume milk should stick to products with positive confirmation that it is milk-free.
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Since we're on the topic: do people refrigerate their butter? Those who do, what's your process for getting it on toast smoothly?
We just plonk it in the microwave till it slightly melts.
A type 1 phaser set to the lowest stun setting will melt butter patties if you just flash it on and off quickly.
Oh! Lowest setting! That explains what happened...
Until recently, I had some butter on a butter plate with a lid, and would take it to room temperature in advance of wanting to use it. Not the best method, but better than only having fridge temperature butter. A few weeks ago I got a French butter dish after being introduced to the concept. You can keep a good dose of butter in room temperature, with water making it airtight so the butter stays fresh. So far very much liking it.
Butter is tasty but annoying, so I switched to those butter-vegetable oil hybrids.
They taste a bit like butter but spread like margarine.
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I refrigerate my butter and don't make toast very often. When I do make toast, I cut off the appropriate amount of butter and place it on the warm toast and let it sit to acclimate. After a moment, I spread it with a knife.
No, the spread is not amazing and creamy. It is still a little cold and chunky. But I don't care leaving your butter out is weird.
Join the butter dish supremacy. I promise, you’ll like your life more
Also use the salted butter to leave out. It keeps better and tastes better too.
I leave butter out. I try to limit it to a week, and usually succeed since I cook with it now. I’ve seen it turn color and taste after a couple weeks but it’s still edible and never made me sick
My brother refrigerates and claims that if you make thin slices it gets soft pretty quickly. I’ve also seen YouTube claims to that, but I must not be patient enough
I've found that even a month is fine, even, at least for salted, although I try to leave it out for much less than that.
In any case, just slice off about a weeks worth of butter from your block or stick and and leave the rest refrigerated.
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A recall that 99% won't be claimed since if you are buying butter you know it contains milk. Gotta be real dumb to think the butter is milk free.
You do realize we're talking about the same society that requires a warning label to not eat the shampoo?
It's the same society that just elected a fascist dictator-wannabe. No matter how many intelligent people you know, there's enough to do that.
Maybe warning labels were a mistake...
Was trump the 'tide-pod’ of presidents...?
What?! You can eat the shampoo? No dog food for Victor tonight!
It isn't about people not knowing butter has milk, its about enforcing the law so they don't "accidentally" leave off legally required information.
Gotta be real dumb
Well based on last Tuesday, this is a shockingly large number of people.
They’ll just put a sticker on it that says “contains milk”. This is like one of those Tesla recalls that is really just a software update done to meet federal or state requirements.
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The recall is redundant, it should just be a notice that butter contains milk, and stickers for any leftover inventory.
Collecting it and destroying it like it's poison is silly. If your allergic to milk, you probably should not be buying butter.
There’s an enforcement component. It’s designed to punish the producer so it hurts so it won’t do it again.
Yup. If you are sensitive to a food product you should be aware already of basic products that by definition contain them. Like telling me yogurt is dairy based.
Weird, is there a crackdown on this sort of thing or did someone really mess up big? I was actually called by my foodstore today to let me know that liptons French onion soup mix was recalled because it didn't list that it has egg in it and my records show that I had purchased this. I don't know if I ever saw this kind of recall before let alone twice in the same day.
I subscribed to FSIS updates and this happens pretty often. Allergen labels are taken pretty seriously. And they send out notifications when they come across one. 🤷🏼♀️
80,000 pounds is slightly over two tractor trailers' worth. For the whole country, that's not a big deal.
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