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What's next, a directive saying you can't market horsemeat as beef?
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| # ? May 20, 2013 07:11 |
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| # ? May 20, 2013 20:20 |
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I think the point still stands that there are a lot of products served from refillable containers sensitive to tampering that don't have such a directive. As mentioned above, sauce bottles, booze (which is a lot more profitable to refill with offbrand liquor), sugar and salt pots and so on. Pretty much anything you would find in a restaurant really. The horse/beef scandal actually proves that mandating labeling doesn't solve anything. If you then do not carry out inspections the fraud just moves higher up in the food distribution chain. So in the end all you have accomplished is to add a barrier to entry for small business. It really is a bizarre directive that has nothing to do with hygiene or combating fraud, the only thing that helps against fraud is more inspections at all levels.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 12:53 |
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Ligur posted:If I'm not entirely wrong, the Slovakian parliament voted against the Cyprus package after which the Commission simply told them to vote again the next day, which is against the Slovak constitution, but which the parliament did despite the fact until they got the right result (for the Commission that is). Sorry, but this is not true. This was an entirely domestic matter. The right-wing coalition government at the time was split, with the majority Christian democrats for the package and the minority liberals (European-style liberals, i.e. basically libertarians) against. The prime minister tied the vote to a vote of no confidence, so the opposition party (social democrats), even though they were in favor of the bailout, abstained. The vote didn't go through, and the government fell. Afterwards, the pro-bailout parties from the outgoing government and the opposition agreed to hold a second vote to approve the package in exchange for snap elections. vetinari100 fucked around with this message at May 20, 2013 around 13:34 |
| # ? May 20, 2013 13:30 |
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sorry, double post
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| # ? May 20, 2013 13:31 |
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Adar posted:They take grade Z olives (or just soybeans), remove the smell, mix 90% of that with 10% of the genuine article and sell the product as grade A oil.
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| # ? May 20, 2013 13:40 |
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