From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 08:54:04 MDT
Alfio Puglisi wrote:
>
> Now, the EU is trying to bring the different food standards in a common
> one. For chocolate, they ruled that up to 5% of the total weight can be
> replaced with filler additives with different taste. Something that no one
> here wants to eat.
>
> What's the problem, you'll ask? Just don't buy them. But, the problem is
> that, up to the 5% limit, the producer is not required to write it on the
> label, and the consumer has NO way to know.
>
If, as you claim, people in Italy care that much about about sub-5%
filler in their chocolate, why don't they simply organize together to
pay some lab a rather paltry fee to test various brands of chocolate to
see which ones are filler-free? It would cost each person practically
nothing if you got any decent amount of people together, and with the
age of the Internet you would think it would be simple to post the
results nationwide.
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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