• Pennomi
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    498 days ago

    And because they often are included in food products, and there’s a fair amount of regulation around mixing non-food with food.

    • @samus12345
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      528 days ago

      Ah, regulation of food…soon, that will be the good old days in the US.

      • @captainlezbian
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        118 days ago

        We’ll get Kinder eggs and all it will cost us is sawdust in all our food

        • @stupidcasey
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          17 days ago

          Saw dust is already in our food, it is that white stuff on shredded cheese used to keep it from sticking, it’s also used in snack foods, frozen dinners, protein bars, ice cream, processed meat…

      • @Alexstarfire
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        57 days ago

        Given the outbreaks we’ve had recently, we’re getting pretty close already.

      • @ByteJunk
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        18 days ago

        Judging by the backlash I saw online on that butter recall because of the missing “contains milk” statement, it seems like few will miss the regulations.

        In the long run, looser regulations could prove to be a Darwinian solution to most current issues.

        • @Soup
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          78 days ago

          A lot of good, smart people can’t afford to eat food they know for sure is safe. Hell, in food deserts it wouldn’t matter much either way.

          • @theangryseal
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            38 days ago

            Am from deep in WV and I’ve known many people who lived on dollar store food. No car, nearest grocery store is 40 miles away.

            It’s a sad place.

            • @Soup
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              37 days ago

              Jesus Christ, that’s insane. I mean I would have thought maybe even fast food…at least the dollar store has some cereals and stuff but those aren’t much of a solution.

        • @michaelmrose
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          47 days ago

          It’s a mistake to imagine most regulation is just brainless nonsense. It would be like imagining the entire legal industry is composed of burglars suing home owners because they slipped in the kitchen whilst robbing the house and concluding we could easily do away with it.

          Looser regulations is incredibly unlikely to effect only or even mostly the stupid or even only or even mostly the poor. Firstly the primary food supply for rich and poor right up to the 1% generally comes from the same ultimate sources the rich just A) mix some more expensive stuff in B) have people who fetch and prepare the food for them.

          Also people are incredibly laughably bad at enacting food safety by voting with their feet even when a particular restaurant is making people sick. Oftentimes the actual sickness may take days to manifest and may not be connected obviously with the ultimate source. Now that is for things that at least directly sicken people. Things that are merely unhealthy may have an ultimate effect that is only visible at the population level where you see significantly more people get cancer in the next 10 to 20 years.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 days ago

          I like your thinking sir perhaps a darwinian solution is precisely what our country needs right now.

          • @[email protected]
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            48 days ago

            I feel like the right wing uses Darwin as an excuse for their chosen genocides rather than an explanation for why they die of intentionally getting diseases or eating toxic substances a guy on tiktok told them to.

        • Pennomi
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          158 days ago

          Or anything freeze dried!

        • @[email protected]
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          17 days ago

          Ok guys, seriosuly no offence, but are you all from the states? I don’t want to do the usual US bashing, but I’ve never seriously seen silica gel in any kind of food, and especially in oral medicines that are individually packaged in protective atmosphere. So I feel like like it’s a cultural difference

          • @BobQuixote
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            27 days ago

            Lemmy is probably primarily US like Reddit. (US here.)

            I can imagine silica being in a medicine bottle. After you break the seal, you’ll put the lid back on and the medicine should stay dry. I’m uncertain whether I’ve ever actually seen that, though.

      • @PapaStevesy
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        108 days ago

        Foods that are ruined by ambient humidity, that’s what kind.