Reuse ban jars with MEP (From York Press)
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Reuse ban jars with MEP
8:25am Wednesday 10th October 2012 in News
A YORKSHIRE MEP has called EU plans to ban the reuse of jam jars as “interfering nonsense”.
Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, said the plan would prevent thousands of people selling their home-made jam, marmalade or chutney in reused jars, as it would breach European health and safety regulations.
Mr Bloom said: “Yet another piece of interfering nonsense from overpaid bureaucrats with nothing better to do than meddle with other people’s daily lives.
“Unbelievably you could actually be flung in jail for six months for selling your homemade preserves in a previously used jam jar.”
Comments(9)
Fat Harry
says...
9:21am Wed 10 Oct 12
Re-used pot calls re-used kettle.
The Great Buda
says...
11:24am Wed 10 Oct 12
Its always been illegal to re-use food packaging without first removing all labeling due to the risk of posioning someone.
ian923
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12:11pm Wed 10 Oct 12
Buzz Light-year
says...
12:43pm Wed 10 Oct 12
ian923 wrote:Even better than that - ignore Godfrey Bloom.
Do what the French do- ignore it. The EU never impose any sanctions on them.
R'Marcus
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4:12pm Wed 10 Oct 12
ian923 wrote:We should ignore everything that the EU wants us to do.
Do what the French do- ignore it. The EU never impose any sanctions on them.
We should be a free country.
AnotherPointofView
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9:09pm Wed 10 Oct 12
This is about re-using food packaging. So long as the jar is clean, then there is no problem.
Glass is virtually inert and providing you clean the jar properly then that there will be no contamination and this is completely acceptable.
Homer-the-motorhomer
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12:36pm Fri 12 Oct 12
Mr Bloom said yet another piece of interfering nonsense from an overpaid bureaucrat with nothing better to do than meddle with other people’s daily lives.
Homer-the-motorhomer
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12:39pm Fri 12 Oct 12
Mr Bloom (an overpaid bureaucrat with nothing better to do than meddle with other people’s daily lives) said yet another piece of interfering nonsense.
Guy Fawkes says...
8:42am Wed 10 Oct 12