Posted on 04/19/2019 8:18:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
President Donald Trump may soon be able to claim a sweet victory for his deregulation push, with officials preparing to get rid of the decades-old rules for frozen cherry pies.
Emails show the Food and Drug Administration planned to start the process for revoking the standard for frozen cherry pies this week, followed by a similar revocation of the standard for French dressing. Plans to get rid of the obscure rules had been tucked into the Trump administration’s deregulation agenda.
Standards for an array of foods including cottage cheese and canned peas were put in place decades ago partly to ensure a level of quality. They spell out how products with specific names can be made, including ingredients that are required or not allowed. The rules for frozen cherry pies say they must be 25% cherries by weight with no more than 15% of the cherries being blemished.
It’s not always clear why some food terms have standards and others don’t. The rules are seen as arcane by many and are a sore spot in the food industry, with companies saying they prevent innovation or prompt lawsuits. The FDA under Trump has said it plans to update the standards. …
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Too many taxes
Too many laws
Cherry pie rules....
Just saying.
Democrat attack line for 2020: “Orange man bad. Orange man ruin pie!”
Too many favors for lobbyists that have made millionaires of our “representatives”.
If you want to make and sell a cherry pie with only one cherry in it, that’s your affair. If your customers only buy one and never come back, we’ll all have a good laugh!
That sucks. Here is real talent, real music:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py3qW5HAg8U
Can cherry pie lose its cherry?
Can olive oil lose its virginity?
Let the market decide. We will vote with our dollars.
Really? The amount of cherries in cherry pie is important? For what reason? To claim less regulations that should not have been there in the first place? Nonsense! So has the Legal Services Corporation been abolished yet? NPR, foundation for the humanities? Enough nonsense. When the federal alphabet agencies are reduced in half, when baseline budgeting is repealed, and the deficit is reduced to zero or a negative, then it will be important. Until then, stfu and stop the crap.
Never enough cherries!!!
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