Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!topaz!jaffe From: jaffe@topaz.ARPA (Saul) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: on misleading food labels Message-ID: <337@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 12:19:15 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.337 Posted: Sun Jan 20 12:19:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 04:38:59 EST References: <4800002@hp-sdd.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 31 > Of course, not all foods have to be labelled by law! Not true! There is a federal law that requires ALL manufactured products to have an ingredient list on the package. The only exception is "natural products" like fruits, nuts, vegetables etc. There is also a new law by the way that requires restaurants to list all ingredients used in their foods. This was done because many people were filing suits against restaurants because they got sick on the food and it was found that they were allergic to certain ingredients. The restaurant certainly has the obligation to tell you if any of the ingredients they use might be harmful to you and the only real way to do this is to force them to list their ingredients. Unfortunately, although the law exists, there is no enforcement of it. Typical. Probably the only way to get it enforced is to have someone actually die from eating food made with ingredients they were allergic to and have the estate sue the restaurant for manslaughter. There is a program in syndication called "Fight Back! With David Horowitz" in which you can find out lots of interesting facts. They also do commercial challenges to show whether a particular product actually does what the commercial claims. It usually doesn't. -- Saul Jaffe Systems Programmer Rutgers University ARPA: Jaffe@Rutgers UUCP: Jaffe@Topaz