Comments on: FDA: “‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of an ingredient.” https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill Poser https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347017 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:45:06 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347017 Precisely because any idiot knows that love is not an ingredient in the usual sense, listing love among the ingredients cannot mislead anyone and is therefore perfectly harmless. No harm, no foul.

]]> By: great unknown https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347011 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:55:00 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347011 In reply to MattS.

Couldn’t say for sure, despite a background in chemistry. But I will tell you that it’s a tremendous flavor enhancer for almost everything.

]]> By: MattS https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347008 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:43:42 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347008 In reply to great unknown.

Is it a protein, a carbohydrate or a sugar? Or is it more a trace mineral like salt?

]]> By: Dwight Brown https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347007 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:45:12 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347007 And love is a potentially addictive substance, as the great scientist Robert Palmer demonstrated in 1986.

]]> By: great unknown https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347006 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 18:09:00 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347006 For Love to be approved as an ingredient it would have to undergo rigorous safety testing. It would not be subsumed under the GRAS exception since nobody at the FDA has ever heard of it before.

In any case, I would like to see the caloric content of Love listed.

]]> By: Realist https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347002 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:34:31 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347002 “Made With Love” as a slogan, anywhere on the packaging? Cool. “Love” as an actual ingredient in the formal and government-mandated list of ingredients? Yeah, you can’t do that.

]]> By: spodula https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347001 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 12:33:43 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347001 Perhaps the “Love” involved was the mating of insects that ended on the oven…

]]> By: Boblipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/10/fda-love-not-common-usual-name-ingredient/comment-page-1/#comment-347000 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:48:24 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=66657#comment-347000 Thereby establishing that no one at the FDA ever had a grandmother.

Bob

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