Posted on 10/13/2021 9:05:28 AM PDT by mylife
A bakery has had to stop making one of its best-selling biscuits after being told it was topping the treats with illegal sprinkles.
Get Baked in Leeds paused production after Trading Standards said the product contained a banned additive.
Owner Rich Myers branded the decision "ridiculous" and said the alternative sprinkles on the market were "rubbish".
West Yorkshire Trading Standards confirmed it had taken action after discovering the additive was in use.
Mr Myers said: "I know it sounds like a small thing but it is a big deal for my business - we used them a lot.
"Our best-selling cookie, we're not going to be able to sell them anymore. For a small independent business that only has a small menu, it's a problem."
A spokesperson for Trading Standards said the sprinkles contained the E127 food colouring, also know as Erythrosine, which is only approved for use in the UK and EU in cocktail cherries and candied cherries.
"[The inspector] said they'd had reports of us using illegal sprinkles and I actually laughed by mistake, then realised he was being serious," Mr Myers said.
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It’s food coloring. I’m sure they can find other red sprinkles.
But, she has a point. If the color is allowed in cocktail cherries & candied cherries, then it’s safe.
Saying it can be used in some items but not others is government overreach.
Red dye #2 redux...
So now even the sprinkles on your bisquits will be controlled by our overlords. A year ago that would have been a Saturday Night Live comedy skit.
The food coloring is “safe and effective”—except when it is not....
2021 is the year when “follow the science” became “follow the magic”.
I'm certain that no one has ever been injured or killed as a result of consuming cocktail cherries. However, the same can not be said for the alcohol in the cocktail …
It sure does nothing for the flavor
Regulation is good they said....
Give up your guns they said....
Now they are banning small things that bring joy to the dystopian nightmare they have forced you into...
And the people will continue to TAKE IT
Now you’ll have to go to the bad part of town and buy those in dime baggies from some shady dude.
Has anyone considered just how ludicrous this sounds:
“We can confirm that we have advised the business concerned the use of E127 is not permitted in this type of confectionery item.”
They’re limiting the use on a specific “confectionery item?”
Don’t they have something better to do?
and you get your dope from the gubmint..
They could just pick out the red ones...just saying...
LOLOLOL!!! Maybe their vendor for sprinkles will do this and no one will notice...
Sprinkles are like the sprinkles on my cookie.
Just use powdered beet; all will be well.
Illegal sprinkles...isn’t that what they accused Trump of doing in a Russian hotel room?
Back in the day it would have been a Monty Python skit.
It’s not likely that anyone will consume sufficient amounts to cause harm.
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