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  • frank@sopuli.xyztoFormula 1@lemmy.world•2024 British Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread 🏁
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    13 days ago

    All very well said. McLaren is not acting like a front running team at the moment, despite the car that is absolutely a front running (I would argue the best) car out there. Their aerodynamic grip looks phenomenal (just check the first few laps in the damp when they both walked away from the Mercs), tire life is excellent (always striking back late in a race), and it seems the best over one lap these days.

    But mix that with letting the driver be the strategist, Lando’s lesser experience racing for wins than the likes of Max and Lewis, some very late calls on strategy, and you’re left with many opportunities that feel squandered.

    Of course, losing out to both Max and Lewis is not a bad place to be, but they had a win on the table here, as we’ve said before this season

  • frank@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why doesn't NA beer have nutrition fact labels in the USA?
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    3 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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    3 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.