From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 09:37:02 MDT
Brian Atkins wrote:
> 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.
Here is a related article today talking about how companies must pay
attention to their online reputation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/23/technology/23REPU.html
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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