{"id":23421,"date":"2013-12-21T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T16:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23421"},"modified":"2013-12-21T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T16:59:44","slug":"overzealous-regulators-create-nationwide-sriracha-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/21\/overzealous-regulators-create-nationwide-sriracha-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Overzealous regulators create nationwide Sriracha shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/12\/21\/california-regulators-attempt-to-kill-sr\" target=\"_blank\">Baylen Linnekin<\/a> on the latest attempt to be safer-than-safe in food regulation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sriracha-rooster-sauce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sriracha-rooster-sauce-47x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sriracha rooster sauce\" width=\"47\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-23422\" \/><\/a>Last week California health regulators ordered the makers of Sriracha hot sauce to suspend operations for 30 days. The 30-day hold comes despite the fact the product has been on the market for more than three decades and that \u201cno recall has been ordered and no pathogenic bacteria have been found[.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the issue?<\/p>\n<p>The problem, reports the <em>Pasadena Star News<\/em>, is that Sriracha is a raw food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Sriracha is not cooked, only mashed and blended, Huy Fong needs to make sure its bottles won\u2019t harbor dangerous bacteria,\u201d writes the <em>Star News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Aren\u2019t three decades of sales sufficient proof of that fact?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regulations outlining this process have been in existence for years,\u201d writes California health department official Anita Gore, in a statement she sent to <em>L.A. Weekly<\/em>, \u201cbut the modified production requirements were established for the firm this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the state changed the rules of the game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylen Linnekin on the latest attempt to be safer-than-safe in food regulation: Last week California health regulators ordered the makers of Sriracha hot sauce to suspend operations for 30 days. The 30-day hold comes despite the fact the product has been on the market for more than three decades and that \u201cno recall has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,74,84,66,13],"tags":[35,661],"class_list":["post-23421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-food","category-government","category-health-science","category-usa","tag-california","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-65L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23427,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions\/23427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}