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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 7, 2017 13:58:25 GMT -8
FDA Says Bakery's Granola Can't Be Made With 'Love' Love may make the world go round, but it's not the stuff from which you make granola, at least according to the FDA. "There's little room for whimsy when it comes to FDA compliance," as Law 360 puts it in its report on a Massachusetts-based bakery that distributes to about 120 stores throughout New England. Nashoba Brook Bakery was taken to task by the agency over its inclusion of "Love" as one of the ingredients in its Nashoba Granola. In a Sept. 22 letter to CEO John Gates and Head Baker Stuart Witt that outlines a slew of violations related to sanitation, the FDA also called out the bakery's use of the word "Love" as an ingredient. It reads, "Ingredients required to be declared on the label or labeling of food must be listed by their common or usual name." And, in case you were wondering, "'Love' is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient." Gates described the situation as "just ... so George Orwell" in a call with Bloomberg. "Situations like that where the government is telling you you can't list 'love' as an ingredient, because it might be deceptive, just feels so silly." The FDA may not think it's silly, but it does think it's minor. Bloomberg reports that violation was one of its lesser concerns, with the letter noting bread-load molds that weren't cleaned between uses and an employee whose blue plastic bracelet came into contact with raw dough, among other transgressions. www.newser.com/story/249562/fda-has-a-problem-with-bakerys-use-of-love.html
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 7, 2017 14:07:37 GMT -8
Court: Movie theaters must accommodate deaf-blind patrons Federal disability law requires movie theaters to provide specialized interpreters to patrons who are deaf and blind, an appeals court said Friday. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Cinemark, the nation's third-largest movie chain, in a case involving a Pennsylvania man who wanted to see the 2014 movie "Gone Girl" and asked a Cinemark theater in Pittsburgh to supply a "tactile interpreter." The theater denied his request. The plaintiff, Paul McGann, is a movie enthusiast who reads American Sign Language through touch. He uses a method of tactile interpretation that involves placing his hands over the hands of an interpreter who uses sign language to describe the movie's action, dialogue and even the audience response. The federal appeals court concluded Friday that tactile interpreters are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires that public accommodations furnish "auxiliary aids and services" to patrons with vision, hearing and speech disabilities. "It would be impossible for a deaf-blind person to experience the movie and understand the content without the provision of tactile interpretation," said Carol A. Horowitz, managing attorney of Disability Rights Pennsylvania, which filed suit on McGann's behalf.
The ruling said Cinemark still can argue that providing the interpreters would present an "undue burden," an exception to the disability law that takes into account the cost of the accommodation and the business's ability to pay for it. It sent the case back to a federal judge to consider that argument.
Because of the intensive nature of the work, McGann requires the services of two interpreters. The interpreters cost a few hundred dollars per showing.Cinemark earned $257 million in 2016. The movie chain also has said that before McGann, it had never before received a request for tactile interpretation. A spokesperson for the Plano, Texas-based chain said Cinemark is evaluating its legal options. The U.S. Department of Justice filed documents in support of McGann. www.newser.com/article/ce7d8a3600d04d4083776397d42428e1/court-movie-theaters-must-accommodate-deaf-blind-patrons.html
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 7, 2017 14:27:14 GMT -8
I think that's a case of truth catching up to fiction. Lawyers have finally turned the nation into a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker movie!
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Post by 3D on Oct 7, 2017 17:02:30 GMT -8
FDA Says Bakery's Granola Can't Be Made With 'Love' Love may make the world go round, but it's not the stuff from which you make granola, at least according to the FDA. "There's little room for whimsy when it comes to FDA compliance," as Law 360 puts it in its report on a Massachusetts-based bakery that distributes to about 120 stores throughout New England. Nashoba Brook Bakery was taken to task by the agency over its inclusion of "Love" as one of the ingredients in its Nashoba Granola. In a Sept. 22 letter to CEO John Gates and Head Baker Stuart Witt that outlines a slew of violations related to sanitation, the FDA also called out the bakery's use of the word "Love" as an ingredient. It reads, "Ingredients required to be declared on the label or labeling of food must be listed by their common or usual name." And, in case you were wondering, "'Love' is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient." Gates described the situation as "just ... so George Orwell" in a call with Bloomberg. "Situations like that where the government is telling you you can't list 'love' as an ingredient, because it might be deceptive, just feels so silly." The FDA may not think it's silly, but it does think it's minor. Bloomberg reports that violation was one of its lesser concerns, with the letter noting bread-load molds that weren't cleaned between uses and an employee whose blue plastic bracelet came into contact with raw dough, among other transgressions. www.newser.com/story/249562/fda-has-a-problem-with-bakerys-use-of-love.htmlI suspect the FDA never has acquired a large enough quantity of love to be able to determine if it can be generally recognized as safe.
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Post by Origanalist on Oct 7, 2017 17:26:12 GMT -8
Court: Movie theaters must accommodate deaf-blind patrons Federal disability law requires movie theaters to provide specialized interpreters to patrons who are deaf and blind, an appeals court said Friday. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Cinemark, the nation's third-largest movie chain, in a case involving a Pennsylvania man who wanted to see the 2014 movie "Gone Girl" and asked a Cinemark theater in Pittsburgh to supply a "tactile interpreter." The theater denied his request. The plaintiff, Paul McGann, is a movie enthusiast who reads American Sign Language through touch. He uses a method of tactile interpretation that involves placing his hands over the hands of an interpreter who uses sign language to describe the movie's action, dialogue and even the audience response. The federal appeals court concluded Friday that tactile interpreters are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires that public accommodations furnish "auxiliary aids and services" to patrons with vision, hearing and speech disabilities. "It would be impossible for a deaf-blind person to experience the movie and understand the content without the provision of tactile interpretation," said Carol A. Horowitz, managing attorney of Disability Rights Pennsylvania, which filed suit on McGann's behalf.
The ruling said Cinemark still can argue that providing the interpreters would present an "undue burden," an exception to the disability law that takes into account the cost of the accommodation and the business's ability to pay for it. It sent the case back to a federal judge to consider that argument.
Because of the intensive nature of the work, McGann requires the services of two interpreters. The interpreters cost a few hundred dollars per showing.Cinemark earned $257 million in 2016. The movie chain also has said that before McGann, it had never before received a request for tactile interpretation. A spokesperson for the Plano, Texas-based chain said Cinemark is evaluating its legal options. The U.S. Department of Justice filed documents in support of McGann. www.newser.com/article/ce7d8a3600d04d4083776397d42428e1/court-movie-theaters-must-accommodate-deaf-blind-patrons.htmlAnd there goes another industry. Theaters will now have to charge so much nobody is going to want to go to them.
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 8, 2017 0:50:28 GMT -8
FDA Says Bakery's Granola Can't Be Made With 'Love' Love may make the world go round, but it's not the stuff from which you make granola, at least according to the FDA. "There's little room for whimsy when it comes to FDA compliance," as Law 360 puts it in its report on a Massachusetts-based bakery that distributes to about 120 stores throughout New England. Nashoba Brook Bakery was taken to task by the agency over its inclusion of "Love" as one of the ingredients in its Nashoba Granola. In a Sept. 22 letter to CEO John Gates and Head Baker Stuart Witt that outlines a slew of violations related to sanitation, the FDA also called out the bakery's use of the word "Love" as an ingredient. It reads, "Ingredients required to be declared on the label or labeling of food must be listed by their common or usual name." And, in case you were wondering, "'Love' is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient." Gates described the situation as "just ... so George Orwell" in a call with Bloomberg. "Situations like that where the government is telling you you can't list 'love' as an ingredient, because it might be deceptive, just feels so silly." The FDA may not think it's silly, but it does think it's minor. Bloomberg reports that violation was one of its lesser concerns, with the letter noting bread-load molds that weren't cleaned between uses and an employee whose blue plastic bracelet came into contact with raw dough, among other transgressions. www.newser.com/story/249562/fda-has-a-problem-with-bakerys-use-of-love.htmlI suspect the FDA never has acquired a large enough quantity of love to be able to determine if it can be generally recognized as safe. If licking the spoon is love, my house has lots of it. I'm bad when I'm cooking but Mr A is gross. He will get my big jug of applesauce (I love applesauce) and eat right out of the jug. I don't mind if it's the end of the jug but I don't want his germies festering in my applesauce. Plus, I've noticed after he does that, there's a liquid puddle on top of the apple sauce. I don't know what that is but it can't be good.
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Post by Origanalist on Oct 8, 2017 6:55:05 GMT -8
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Post by 3D on Oct 8, 2017 13:41:23 GMT -8
I suppose gold encrusted boogers will be the next fashion trend.
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 8, 2017 15:58:02 GMT -8
Wake me up when ear hair becomes hot.
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Post by 3D on Oct 8, 2017 16:05:24 GMT -8
I look at that picture and think, somebody is probably going to tell her, her false eyelashes have slipped down onto her lip.
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 9, 2017 8:27:09 GMT -8
Florida...SMGDH
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 10, 2017 11:56:01 GMT -8
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 10, 2017 13:38:30 GMT -8
If the UN workers aren't vampires, they have nothing to worry about.
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 10, 2017 14:29:46 GMT -8
If the UN workers aren't vampires, they have nothing to worry about. How is it government always insists on starting sentences? If you have nothing to hide...? But of course, they are bloodsuckers. They get their salaries from taxes.
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 11, 2017 2:25:15 GMT -8
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