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  • frank@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the dumbest way you've seen someone get fired?
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    14 days ago

    This is technically fired, but it’s more like quitting. It doesn’t perfectly fit this thread but I love telling this story.

    A few months into my first real job, the engineers got their raises (not me, I was new). 0%, after record profits, the team busting their ass and working insane hours, and promises of good raises. I think they got some gift cards or something.

    One of my coworkers goes back to his desk, packs some stuff, walks to his car, and doesn’t come back. He got paid for a full month before they finally fired him. We got a beer after and he was like “oh I don’t think I’m gonna go back” in the most Office Space way

  • frank@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why doesn't NA beer have nutrition fact labels in the USA?
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    7 months ago

    The (absolutely gutted) organization for requiring things like nutritional information is primarily responsible for keeping people safe in the foods they consume. Should it be on there? Probably. But on the scale of things to do it’s so absurdly insanely low with so many horrific things ahead of it that it probably isn’t gonna happen. Nevermind the fact that it’s lobbied against pretty hard at the same time.

    I think it probably should have nutritional and allergenic info required on it, but hearing the horror stories of my friends in food safety who go to plants that produce dangerous products with so little rules and oversight, I can’t imagine thinking it’s a good idea to take any amount of FDA time and attention away from that for things like beer.

    Most big breweries have nutritional info on their site for their beers, fwiw.

  • frank@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why doesn't NA beer have nutrition fact labels in the USA?
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    8 months ago

    Brewery process engineer here. The reasons beer doesn’t need as strict of regulation in terms of food safety and in terms of labeling is twofold.

    Part of that is because it’s lobbied to keep it that way, because if you put numbers down they’re not great (no surprise)

    Part of it is because beer’s pH and alcohol content makes it nearly impossible for human-harming-pathogens to grow. On the scale of danger for you from a food safety perspective, beer is low.

    NA beer is full strength beer with the alcohol removed. It goes through the same kill steps and processes as normal beer. Alcohol removal can be done a few ways (RO, filtration, boiling) but is I think always or effectively always followed by pasteurization.

    Not saying it should be beyond labelling, but that’s the reasoning why it’s not a high priority for labeling like food.