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Obama Health Bill Sends "Yankees" Peanut Factory Packing (FDA regs required $40 M factory update)
Gothamist.com ^ | 4/21/2011 | Garth Johnston

Posted on 04/21/2011 6:18:45 PM PDT by Qbert

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that President Obama signed into law this year didn't just bring us a fancy new FDA recall page. It also is sending the 125-year-old A.L. Bazzini Co., which makes the “official peanut of Yankee Stadium,” out of New York and into the loving embrace of Pennsylvania.

The firm, which moved from TriBeCa to Hunts Point in 1997, says the new regulations would require them to perform a $40-million-dollar update to their production facility. And since they have this "state of the art" plant in Allentown (thanks to their recent purchase of the chocolate company Bartons) it is just more cost efficient to move. The exit will mean the loss of 57 jobs in the Bronx (well, sort of—the company expects about 30 employees to move with them) but it isn't as bad as it could be!

"I won't pull all of Bazzini out of New York—not now, not ever," the company's CEO Rocco Damato said. The company will keep a small distribution center in the Bronx that will employ six people and they will also maintain some office positions in the city. It'll also keep providing peanuts to the Yankees, and may even open up some shops here in the future. As Damato says, "Bazzini is a New York brand. This is not what we wanted to do. We had no choice."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fda; foodsafetyact; obama; yankees
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1 posted on 04/21/2011 6:18:53 PM PDT by Qbert
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To: Qbert

Meanwhile back in the communist command center deep within the White House......


2 posted on 04/21/2011 6:21:21 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: Qbert
57 jobs. Who would even notice?

ML/NJ

3 posted on 04/21/2011 6:21:43 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

1 job from each state !


4 posted on 04/21/2011 6:25:22 PM PDT by George from New England (Escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Qbert

Who’d ya vote for, Rocco? Just curious.


5 posted on 04/21/2011 6:27:56 PM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: ml/nj

“57 jobs. Who would even notice?”

The people losing their jobs might.


6 posted on 04/21/2011 6:28:22 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: ml/nj
Historic meets Symbolic.

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7 posted on 04/21/2011 6:30:27 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja
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To: ml/nj

The taxman might notice.


8 posted on 04/21/2011 6:35:33 PM PDT by psjones (u)
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To: Qbert

I’d have just outsourced the nut production to a Canadian company that can legally import raw peanuts at half our price , and fire all of the employees ,, let a local freight company handle distribution... move everything out of New York so they can’t get any taxes ...


9 posted on 04/21/2011 6:36:08 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Neidermeyer

Bump.


10 posted on 04/21/2011 6:40:13 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)
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To: Neidermeyer

First move to Pennsylvania.
Next move to Indonesia.


11 posted on 04/21/2011 6:40:53 PM PDT by schwingdoc
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To: FReepers
We Can Do This

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12 posted on 04/21/2011 7:13:58 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: Qbert

Barzini??? Will Luca Brazzi please pick up the black hand phone


13 posted on 04/21/2011 7:14:09 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (President Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the US)
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To: Qbert

Yea great. More New Yorkers in Pennsylvania, thanks again obama.


14 posted on 04/21/2011 7:17:15 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: Qbert
Hey, Get Your Sack-a-Nuts Here!
15 posted on 04/21/2011 7:53:30 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: George from New England

Good one! LMAO


16 posted on 04/21/2011 8:35:48 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: Qbert; ml/nj
57 jobs. Who would even notice?

ME! I find it VERY suspicious!

Heinz, 57 Varieties

Obama, 57 states

FDA Food Safety Act, 57 lost jobs

Conicidence? I think not!

17 posted on 04/21/2011 8:57:56 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Those old facilities in NY were poisoning thousands for fans every year..just had to go.


18 posted on 04/21/2011 9:14:34 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: StarFan; stanz; firebrand; neverdem

Obama’s Amerika (and Yankees) ping


19 posted on 04/21/2011 9:17:01 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Oldexpat

I’m willing to bet that Bloomberg’s daily spewings are poisoning more fans in a month, than these old facilites were in a decade.


20 posted on 04/21/2011 9:19:24 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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