Questions tagged [food-processing]
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What are the implications of reselling food?
What are the implications of reselling food? Is it legal?
What would happen, for example, if in the US I buy Little Caesar's pizzas (with no delivery service) and sell them on another place? What are the implications of restaurant delivery services…
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What licenses and registrations are required to start a home business repackaging food in NY?
I'd like to start a home business repackaging food in New York State in the US. For example, let's say I'm buying 10kg bags of rice from the supermarket and I want to put them into jars each containing 250g.
I started on the assumption that the…
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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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Is it illegal to make a puppy fur jacket?
I watched 101 Dalmatians for the first time and wander: Can dogs or cats be raised like farm animals for the purpose of food or fur? What species of animal is not allowed for product other than endangered species?
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When did unpasteurised dairy become illegal in Scotland?
Apparently the sale of raw/unpasteurised dairy in Scotland is fully prohibited.
What legal instrument renders this to be the case, and when was it introduced, and what was the position previously?
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What determines the legality of whether a non-controlled substance can be included in food?
If there was a food or chemical substance that was not listed as a controlled substance either federally or at the state level, and it is never explicitly mentioned in any FDA food guidelines, does that mean that it can be included in food and sold…
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How are food products containing partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) still being sold?
All food products containing partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) were banned from being sold in stores in the US starting January 1st, 2021:
To allow for time for reformulation, the agency is extending until June 18, 2019 the compliance date to stop…
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Are there de minimis exceptions to "food waste" for trash collection?
I'm interested in how de minimis principles can apply in law and especially started thinking about it after reading that certain cities require food waste to be put in a plastic bag. For example, this source says that food waste "should be drained,…
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Is it legal for restaurants to use fish in their vegetarian meals?
For many years, I've had to avoid Chinese restaurants and take-aways purely because they sell "vegetarian" choices which contain fish sauce, prawns, squid etc. I appreciate that there is a cultural difference such as Buddists eating oysters, but…
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What is the legal significance of explicitly designating an ingredient as a fruit oil?
A South African food item lists an ingredient as olive (fruit) oil.
Another South African food item lists an ingredient as non-hydrogenated palm (fruit) oil.
I’ve never seen such designations on ingredient listings and assume that it has some legal…
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What are the parameters of ingredients which may be legally listed as natural flavourings in the UK?
A food product supplier has said:
Flavours are sold and marketed as natural if they are derived from the actual source. We use vanilla and chocolate flavours extracted from vanilla pods and cocoa beans.
Is this legally correct?
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Do you have to list ingredients in a food takeout business in New York State?
My wife just opened a food takeout business in New York State.
She sells coffee, sandwiches, salads, pastas, danishes, and the like.
Some of the products, for example some salads, pastas, sandwiches and desserts are pre-packaged for convenience…
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Selling Used Water Bottles
When I was in Rome, I got two warnings from the locals:
Beware pick pockets and keep your valuables safe and covered in the streets.
Don't buy water bottles from the guys on the street: they might be used bottles.
Pick-pocketing is obviously…
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Is it illegal in the UK for a supermarket to not disclose all the ingredients in meat produce?
E.g. if a supermarket was selling chicken which contained traces of pork and they did not list it on the ingredients would that be illegal? (Not referring to allergens just ingredients in general).
Does anyone have a link to an official source for…
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Why are only thiamin (B₁), riboflavin (B₂), niacin (B₃), iron, and folate required to be added to enriched flour in U.S. federal law?
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations § 137.165 (a) on enriched flour specifies that it must
contains in each pound 2.9 milligrams of thiamin, 1.8 milligrams of riboflavin, 24 milligrams of niacin, 0.7 milligrams of folic acid, and 20 milligrams of…
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