This post is not political so please don’t post political comments.
Have you ever seen so many recalls on food? Maybe it’s on everything but I’ve mostly paid attention to food recalls. This morning I saw one for cookies and it’s because there’s milk in the cookies and it was left off the ingredient list. I can understand the why – if you’re allergic to milk and read the label and see no milk, you buy them and then have a reaction. But, I would think any major company would be very meticulous about listing every ingredient. Leaving milk out of the list of ingredients for cookies seems almost like leaving flour off the list of ingredients for the breads I make. Yes, I would do something like that but these companies should have systems and checks and backup systems and checks.
It’s crazy. I’ve never seen so many recalls and I’m sure I don’t see them all. If you go to the FDA site that lists food recalls, there are many that are listed for undeclared allergen. It would make me very nervous if I or someone in my family had a very serious food allergy.
There are pages and pages of food items on the recall lists. Many are prepared foods and we don’t buy those very often but there are enough vegetables, nuts, cinnamon, fruit – things we do buy, to make me feel a bit uncomfortable about the foods we do b uy.
Maybe it’s always been this way, maybe the reporting/checking has gotten better but it makes me think twice about the things I buy.
Jean B in PA says
I did see the one about cinnamon and tossed my generic brand and bought a name brand that was stated to be ok.