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Nov 12Pinned

I've tracked the story to FDA: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Product=210580

From what I understand, the recall was initiated voluntarily by the supplier, which makes it even more bizarre.

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Bet'cha it was found at the plant by, someone on the line (probably not, since so much was processed with an erroneous label), Quality Control, or Data Review and Release (Last review at the plant of all data and packaging of the run.). I am going on the assumption that QC is run in approximately the same manner as it was at the milk plant I worked at.

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😂😂 FFS, it's government waste,fraud and abuse at this point with FDA. Price hikes from manufacturer. They care more about butter labels than telling people there were fetal stem cells not of your DNA in the J&J vax.

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Perhaps forcing real butter to have "contains milk" warning labels will somehow complete a Streisand effect of making some otherwise ignorant masses more interested in what's in their "butter." Don't try this at home folks!

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It used to was that the dairy lobby got anti-margarine laws passed. It made sure that nobody mistook margarine for a dairy product. Among other measures, margarine couldn’t be dyed yellow, to keep it from being confused with butter (neither product is naturally yellow, anyway)

I feel the same about fake peanut butter. Jif, Skippy, Peter Pan, most brands, actually, ought really be called “imitation peanut-flavored vegetable shortening”, or “peanut byproduct sandwich spread” or some other rightfully unappetizing name for that disgusting brown Crisco

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I can’t believe it is butter!

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After you eat it?

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Nov 13Author

recalling it from the fridge, for an obvious purpose ;)

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If they had just said it identifies as butter, inquiries couldn't be made of its constituents.

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What kind of idiot made it to Costco membership status yet doesn't have any idea that butter is a dairy product? Do they even need to tell people?

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Nov 12Author

As far as I can tell, this happened not because a Costco member complained. (see pinned comment)

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I thought only the intellectual elite shopped at Costco

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😂😂

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If misinformation is being spread on food, it's also being eaten. That could be the explanation why people are getting fatter: the overabundance of empty calories misinformation contains.

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Nov 12Author

well, in this case it was missing labels, not too many labels…

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If it saves just ONE life!

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