Nearly 80,000 Pounds of Butter Sold at Costco Were Just Recalled
OK, summat wrong, a system which recalls dangerous stuff, right on.
In early October, the FDA sent out an initial recall on Kirkland Signature butter, produced by Continental Dairy Facilities Southwest LLC. The recall is for 79,200 pounds of butter due to an undeclared allergen. According to the FDA, the packages of both salted and unsalted Kirkland Signature Sweet Cream Butter list cream as an ingredient, but may not contain the “Contains Milk” allergy statement visible on the packaging.
80,000 lbs of butter to be destroyed because the packaging does not tell people that butter contains milk.
“‘Ello Mr. Bureaucrat. Yes, if you could just walk up there stairs ‘ere. Yes, isn’t there a nice crowd out there. No, don’t worry about those bloodstains. Well, perhaps, but don’t concern yourself over getting them on your clothes. You’ll not be worried about that in a minute or two. Yes, yes, that is an interesting colour, isn’t it? Did you know that Mrs Armstrong, that vegan lady in your office, suffered from an iron deficiency? Well, look there at the colour differences of those splashes, that’s what it does to you. But that’s also not something you’re going to have to worry about in a minute or two. Mmm? Why the uncertainty over time? Depends on sharpening the blade, see? Aha, what a joke. No, you do want it sharpened, believe me. No, no, don’t worry about combing your hair. Those lovely ladies down there like a bit of curl to knit with, see?”
Because we’d not want to just shoot them now, would we?
Elon Musk was talking about how the Department of Justice (lol) sued his company SpaceX for not hiring “asylum seekers”.
It’s illegal for him to hire “asylum seekers” (SpaceX is a defence contractor), but it’s also illegal not to.
William Shakespeare was right about lawyers.
I’ve just taken my pre-bedtime medicine and noticed I was running low. So, I’ve just gone online to my GPs’ website to make a query.
“This service is only available between 8am and 3pm”
WTactualF? They turn the fucking computers off out of hours?!?!?!?!?!?????? More to send up the one-way staircase.
Also…. I leave for work before 8. I get home after 3. When the **** do they expect me to contact them? The *WHOLE* *POINT* of online services is supposed to be to be able to disconnect from the physical presence of actual humans.
Sheesh. Good job I recorded my blood pressure *before* trying their website.
jgh, I think you may find that all the service actually does is compose a text or email message (or equivalent) and send it to the receptionist to action.
I long for the day when my Ancient Pistol becomes a legal weapon.
Thinking about it, such trivial infractions must be very common. Wrong font, no braille imprint, not declared halal… We’ve all queued behind a check out that slows down because the bar code can’t be machine read.
I suspect some personal or institutional bias. Did the firm’s owner make a political contribution, I wonder?
I didn’t notice anything quite as idiotic when I was a bureaucrat.
But perhaps some of those who dealt with me might disagree!!!
When I looked at the reference, I did notice that they asked ‘Was this page helpful?’ just above an advertisement about how to make an old knife insanely sharp in 35 seconds.
Not just the bureaucracy, the media.
“Though the FDA has not put out information on what to do if you have purchased these recalled items — nor has it shared if there have been any illness or adverse reactions from consuming the product — the usual course of action is to either discard them or return them to your place of purchase just in case.”
>Because we’d not want to just shoot them now, would we?
Well, you’re not allowed to have guns, are you’)?
Backhoe and a PCC and you can do them as batch jobs while employing less labor – the benefits of capital investment!
Ah, but people have become accustomed to foodstuffs having product names that bear little or no resemblance to their ingredients or to traditional recipes. For instance, here in the UK you can sell something called “ice cream” that contains no cream or other dairy product. Indeed, most “ice cream” here is vegetable oils. If you have a tub in your freezer that you didn’t choose based on ingredients, chances are it’s milk free. So an alergy suffering “ice cream” purchaser used to this state of affairs will look for the milk warning but if it isn’t there due to an error . . .
As it happens the USDA regs on butter require it to be at least 80% butterfat to be sold as butter. But some US consumers might not know that (and some of them might not even know that butterfat is the fatty part of milk) so might just look for a milk warning as their due diligence. And if it’s not there . . .
You might think such consumers deserve to die but that opinion will likely hold less sway with the FDA than a potential bunch of lawsuits.
Then we can execute all the teachers as well, for doing such a shit job.
You might think such consumers deserve to die
Anyone with a fatal allergy to milk who doesn’t know which common foods contain milk absolutely deserves to be plucked from the gene pool. However, I suspect such a person does not exist.
Don’t be so sure, Marius!
They don’t exist for long, Julia.
These nuts may contain nuts.
Norman: well that’s the whole point of emails. I write it at midnight in my own time, the recipient reads it whenever in their own time.
jgh, I can only imagine that the people at your GP practice are utter fucking coddled cretins. Try as I might, I can find no other plausible explanation for an online booking service that is only open 8am – 3pm.