It’s the flavoring coating blends undeclared. An example is the plain chips must be produced at the start of the run, then the sour cream and chives, ranch, barbecue, chips. It’s about scheduling. No sanitation and allergen wash needs to be done going from plain and then to flavored chips. The other way around is a violation of USDA rules. An allergen wash takes about 12 hours of downtime, then allergen trace testing on the machinery. It’s no small process hitch.
Thanks.
But I can’t help but wonder how often this sort of thing happens and doesn’t become a news item...
“...the flavoring coating blends undeclared...sour cream, ranch”
That makes sense. The cost of doing an USDA allergen wash of the equipment must be astronomical on top of the downtime with no production.
I tried to find how many people are harmed by trace cross-contamination like that. I could not find any data. Does anybody ever ask “are these tens of millions of dollars spent on avoiding cross-contamination saving any lives or preventing any illnesses?”
It’s like the California Prop 65 cancer warning labels. Tens of millions of dollars (hundreds?) spent on compliance with tens of billions of labels slapped onto every product under the sun. Has any of that affected just one person? Much less saved a single life or prevented a single case of cancer.
We switched from Comcast to AT&T Fiber last summer. AT&T sent me a Prop 65 Warning in a text message after the work was done that basically said “Don’t touch our equipment or you will die from cancer!!” Their equipment is in a wiring closet in my home, up high on the top shelf and their wiring runs through the crawl space. I could touch that stuff momentarily maybe every ten years. And it’s nothing but a normal plastic electronics enclosure and normal cable PVC jacket.
Government is absolutely nuts.
I had no idea but kind of a hunch about it. Thanks for the information.