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  • Restaurants often don’t know what’s in their food, largely because of cross contamination. Baked goods are a particularly dangerous area for those with food allergies, due to how carelessly ingredients like flour is processed.

    In recent years, we’ve seen an uptick in brands use major allergens as cost-saving filler in their products. Those are intentional contamination. The incidents of accidental contamination are much higher, as much equipment is shared in the processing and packaging if various products, so the equipment can contaminate other food with those major allergens.

    Society needs to start taking this seriously and place rigorous controls on how food containing major allergens is processed and handled. Products and ingredients that contain major allergens should be carefully regulated and inspected, and equipment should not be reused for products that do not contain those allergens in their recipes. We also need to be more stringent about preventing companies from using allergens as fillers. The carelessness with which our food is handled is shocking.


  • By itself, this is not helpful. If you have a food allergy, you are used to mentioning it every time you eat out. You may be familiar with the usual answer of “we don’t use x but can’t guarantee our suppliers didnt contaminate something.” So what will happen is that restaurants will claim that everything contains allergens, or even add allergens to things that previously didn’t use them so that they can confidently say whether it does contain any. Maybe worse, they will list the allergens they use in their recipes but do not adequately communicate the risk of cross contamination in the kitchen or in the supply chain.

    Instead, we also need to tighten food safety standards across the entire supply chain so that there is dramatically reduced risk of cross-contamination.

    Supply chains are a major problem for people with allergies, because there are so many points where accidental contamination can happen that those at the end of the chain - like restaurants - are terrified of making assumptions because they know how unreliable the supply chain is.




  • He did.

    And one of the scribes, having heard them talking and having noticed how well Jesus answered them, asked the question “Which commandment is the most important?”

    Jesus answered “The most important is ‘Hear this, Israel, the Lord - Our God - the Lord is singular. And you shall love the Lord, who is your God, with every emotion, every breath, every thought, and every bit of your strength.’

    “The second is the same. ‘You shall respectfully devote yourself to others as much as you do for yourself.’ There are no commandments more important than these.

    — from Mark 12.

    And the King Above All Kings will respond to them “Let me be blunt, the ways you behaved toward even the lowest of people, who are my brothers, you did to me.

    — from Matthew 25

    As a previous person mentioned, the whole “The Bible is a singular work of God’s literal word” argument is absurdist in the extreme, even if it’s mainstream today. This dogma began in the US in the 1900s with the Fundamentalist movement. Even the word “Bible” itself means “library.”