Grapes, milk, fish guts: Vintners may have to label allergens (Nanny state alert)

AP via/The Press Democrat/The Lompoc Record ^ | January 15, 2007 | AP

[Gabz]

Nanny State Ping!!!!!!!!

[Gabz]

Why in the world does this article cite children's allergies? Last time I checked, the minimum age for consuming alcohol is 21 in the US.

I was wondering the same thing............

[absolootezer0]

yea cause nobody has food allergies right? Try to feed a kid with multiple allergies then tell me this is a solution with no problem..

you give your kid wine?

[N3WBI3]

I occasionally cook with it!

[From many - one.]

I guess it may depend on the orthodoxy level. The two refrigerator crowd may reject it.

Realistically, there is some blood remaining in all meat, so, I was just curious.

[absolootezer0]

that's still serving alcohol to a minor. You do realise that all the alcohol doesn't burn out, right?

[From many - one.]

Vanilla flavoring has grain. Deadly for some.

I don't see information as nanny-statism. Mandating what can be sold is.

[N3WBI3]

Traces of alcohol in cooking food is not 'serving alcohol' to a minor. I'm not giving the kid rum cake and I have yet to see one justification from anybody here as to why food allergy information on products is a bad thing..

[Cold Heart]

Any preparation prior to use? Any fish gut you prefer? I wouldn't imagine there is enough sturgeon guts for the entire industry.

[libertarian27]

""Thanks to the binding agents, the larger molecules sink to the bottom of the barrel, leaving the wine above it clean.""

Let Them Drink Chunky Wine!

[absolootezer0]

the information is not a bad thing. its being being FORCED to put on the information that's a problem.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Cooking.

[Old Professer]

Quit tipping, quit dripping.

[Old Professer]

Slutty pregnant sots?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Wait until this hits tobacco when it's regulated.

I'm curious how the buying public is going to react to reading the flavoring ingredients on a pack of cigs:

"Tobacco, reconstituted tobacco(floor sweepings), menthol, caribou tongue oil, essence of Siberian Yak droppings, Pakistani figs fermented in camel urine, etc......"

[doodad]

I buy it commercially in small vials, no clue as to what fish it may or may not be. It is dried and has no odor. It only takes a teaspoon or so to do the job in a 5 gallon batch. Compared to gelatin which has to be prepped.

[Gabz]

Oh YUCK!!!!!!!!!

[Old Professer]

Will you continue to do so, now that you know that there may be trace allergens?

[Gabz]

We are talking such impossibly small trace amounts here that the heat of cooking would burn them off, just as it burns off the alcohol content.

[N3WBI3]

Thankfully my kid does not have an allergy to fish but if they did I would stop, If there was somehow peanuts being used your damn straight I would stop..