Questions tagged [food]
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Can I sue a restaurant for serving me meat in vegetarian dish?
I am a vegetarian for religious reasons. I was at Chipotle on Saturday and ordered a sofritas rice bowl which is "vegan approved". To my surprise, I found a chunk of chicken in my bowl when I was halfway through eating it. Made me feel sick to the…
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Legal basis of statement by British Food Standards Agency that companies may label as "sunflower oil" what is not sunflower oil?
Recently in Britain the Food Standards Agency issued advice that food items may be offered for sale labelled as "sunflower oil" (a product that has become scarcer owing to the Russo-Ukrainian war) which do not actually contain any sunflower…
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What is the motivation for legally forcing sellers to determine the minimum price of food by multiplying it by 1.1?
A radio advertisement for a food distributor said that they sell their food to fight the current crisis at "prix coutant" (cost price). However, it was followed by a very speedy text saying that, according to the law, the actual cost price was…
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How can a restaurant, Old Homestead Steakhouse, continue their false claims of selling Kobe beef?
About a year ago, Inside Edition reporters first revealed that two high-end restaurants in New York City, La Bernardin and Old Homestead Steakhouse, were serving beef that they claimed to be Kobe beef, which was untrue, given that there were only 9…
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Is it legal to sell expired food in the United States?
Is it legal for grocery stores to sell expired food in the United States?
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Can an employer deduct PPE from pay?
Can an employer require their employees to pay for their own personal protective equipment? For example, if working in a restaurant where gloves are required, could a boss require the employees to pay 1.25 cents for every pair of gloves used?
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Terms and conditions for food?
Imagine you have purchased some food item for consumption and upon opening it you find a notice printed (faintly and hard-to-read) on the seal that by opening and consuming the product you agree to the company's terms and conditions. It might look…
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Is it illegal to sell duck eggs in Austria?
When I lived in Toronto I would often buy fresh duck and turkey eggs from the city's markets. Yesterday I tried doing the same thing at a market in Vienna and was told by the stall operator that it's illegal to sell duck (and turkey) eggs. She…
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Can the FD&C conflict with the CFR?
Page 77 of the textbook Vaccines states:
The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (Section 502[e][1][A][iii]) states that all inactive ingredients should be noted in labeling; it also states that this requirement is not necessary if trade secret information…
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What law that took effect in roughly the last year changed nutritional information requirements for restaurants and cafes?
Apparently some new law requires more detailed calorific information for prepared food items.
Is the same law also responsible for introducing further protections from contamination of allergens?
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Can restaurants charge differently based on customer's language?
I greeted some Chinese friends who just arrived at an airport. They were hungry after a long flight so we ate lunch inside the airport. We sat down and opened the menu in Chinese. We ordered some food and talked about our lives. While one was…
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Must restaurants serve water for free to their customers in France?
https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/Publications/Vie-pratique/Fiches-pratiques/Carafe-d-eau-verre-d-eau (mirror 1, mirror 2) states:
La carafe d'eau ordinaire en accompagnement du repas est inclue dans le prix du repas.
The flask of ordinary…
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Is it legal for a retailer to modify a product to remove best before dates and batch numbers?
We manufacture and supply to retailers in the US, via a distributor, a trademarked liquid animal feed product. Recently we have discovered that one of the retailers has been wiping off the best before dates and batch numbers printed on the bottles…
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Meeting the "traditional" requirement for Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)
The EU's Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) scheme is defined in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and supplemented by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 664/2014…
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How can I get past a ban on energy drinks at my school?
Whenever I enter my school I'm forbidden to drink energy drinks. I asked them why and they listed lots of reasons why I wasn't allowed.
I asked "why is smoking not forbidden but something so simple as drinking energy drinks is?" and they replied…
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