 "Yummy! Yummy! Yummy! I have love in my tummy!" (Maybe if they would just use pine tree sawdust, they could say it was magic Christmas tree powder.) |
Posted on 12/23/2020 7:27:18 AM PST by mylife
A German cookie company had been making and selling sawdust-enhanced treats for around 20 years, and the owner claimed they only used "microbiologically sound" sawdust.
A recent court ruling in Germany is great news if you'd prefer that your cookies weren't made with sawdust—and less great if you only eat cookies that have been made with sawdust.
The Verwaltungsgericht (VG) Karlsruhe, an administrative court in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe, Germany, flat-out told the owner of a mail-order cookie business that he needs to adjust his recipe and stop selling any baked goods containing sawdust.
According to Juris.de, the unnamed plaintiff had been producing and selling the sawdust-enhanced cookies for "around 20 years." He alleges that he wrote a letter to the city of Karlsruhe about his ingredient list in 2004, but they never got back to him. He quietly continued to mix sawdust into his cookie dough until 2017, when city inspectors ran a couple of tests on his cookies, and told him that he had to stop selling them immediately.
(Excerpt) Read more at foodandwine.com ...
Bread Labels on Wood Fiber Draw Attack
OCT. 9, 198512 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Several brands of high-fiber bread are misleading consumers by failing to disclose that the source of the fiber is wood pulp, a consumer group charged Tuesday.
“Most consumers would be shocked to learn that the fiber in these breads comes from trees, not wheat grain,” said Bonnie Liebman of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
The labels list “alpha cellulose” and do not state that the bread fiber comes from wood, Liebman said.
“Misleading? Go climb a tree,” responded Rella Dwyer, director of technical services at W. E. Long Co. in Chicago, maker of Vim, one of eight brands of bread cited by the consumer group.
‘Crude Fiber’ Listed
“Our label itself states, flat out, ‘non-nutritive crude fiber.’ That’s hardly misleading,” Dwyer said.
Dwyer said federal law requires labels to use the “common and usual name” of ingredients, and alpha cellulose is that correct term.
In addition to Vim, the nonprofit consumer advocacy group complained about similar labeling on Less, manufactured by Ort’s Inc. of Cumberland, Md.; Lite Loaf, Interstate Brands of Kansas City; Lite ‘n Up, Oroweat Foods Co. of Montebello, Calif.; Merita Lite, American Bakeries of New York; Roman Lite, Roman Meal Co. of Seattle, Wash.; Sunbeam Lite, Quality Bakers of Greenwich, Conn.; and 40, Grocers Baking Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich...
That writer must really dislike salad dressing. They put it on the list twice.
I remember clove cigs from the late ‘70’s. NASTY!
Healthy, high-fiber cookies. Great for the digestive system.
I think they prefer whole wood. Does make me wonder from where he gets his “chocolate chips” though...
Mmmmm... VIM.
Mulch dyed brown of course
The sawdust cookies have a twenty year proven safety record—with no indemnification.
The coronavirus vaccines? not so much...
Guess what sawdust is? Cellulose.
When people taste the new ones they may find that they no longer like the “new and improved” product.
>>If we have a war or famine, he can go back to putting sawdust back in...:)
Next year he can put mealworms in them. And get a carbon credit for saving the planet.
Isn’t China putting drywall in our pill supply?
McDonalds nervously looks around the room.
But it is OK to mix cellulous into grated cheeses...up to 50%. LOL
Fruit trees?
Oh ma gerd they putting tree bark in my pastry roll!
Oh my those were DELICIOUS! Heavy sugar tons of nicotine! The jolt cola of cigs.
Eating a little wood (okay, a lot) of wood never did Euell Theophilus Gibbons any harm, yea?
Wait, you say he dead? Uh, never mind.
"Yummy! Yummy! Yummy! I have love in my tummy!" (Maybe if they would just use pine tree sawdust, they could say it was magic Christmas tree powder.) |
Naaaaa - he had Marfan Syndrome and died of an aortic aneurysm.
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