{"id":705,"date":"2012-09-02T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2012-09-02T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T10:01:47","slug":"should-thereare-there-laws-about-selling-recalled-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Should there\/are there laws about selling recalled food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Beka E<\/i>: Should there\/are there laws about selling recalled food?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the recent recall of peanut related products, I am left wondering what would happen to a business that continued to sell the contaminated product? Do you think there should be laws with potential fines or jail time for shop owners who continue to sell these products?<br \/>\nIn example: there is a small corner store in my town just outside Baltimore City. The shop owner is strange and I doubt he is aware that there are recalls on peanut related products and if he does know about the recall I highly doubt that he would throw away any of his merch. I also don&#8217;t think he gets his stuff from a distributor, more like a Costco shopper. I still see peanut butter crackers, sports bars etc&#8230; on his shelves. if this makes someone sick they could die. Sol what I want to know is, Is it the consumers responsibility or should the retailer be held responsible for selling recalled product?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by hamlin2win<\/i><br \/>there should be laws against selling recalled food<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Beka E: Should there\/are there laws about selling recalled food? With the recent recall of peanut related products, I am left wondering what would happen to a business that continued to sell the contaminated product? Do you think there should be laws with potential fines or jail time for shop owners who continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56,243,782,42,1887,30,133,1886],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-about","tag-food","tag-laws","tag-recalled","tag-selling","tag-should","tag-there","tag-thereare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}