Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Having just had a nasty allergy reaction myself, I have a heightened sympathy for those who are allergic to nuts. My problem is that I don't know what I am allergic to: theirs is that no one is prepared to simply say, 'No chance of nuts.'
Bought a packet of cooking chorizo sausages today. Here are the nut comments:
Recipe : No nuts
Ingredients : Cannot guarantee nut free
Factory : No nuts
It's the second one that bothers me. It's just 'cover your ass.' If the factory is nut free then why can't quality control guarantee the product to be nut free. I suppose you could argue that pigs like acorns so there must be something nutty in the flesh.
And why not stop at nuts? Surely we should be posting warnings like, 'Cannot guarantee to be free of Uranium-238, potassium cyanide, plague ridden fleas....' Another of my concerns is that they don't say 'free of rat shit' because rats abound in most factories especially where food is processed.
This kind of message is just passing the buck to the consumer.
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