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For release: July 8, 1999
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Are Americans too dumb to fry an egg?
New egg warning label suggests we are
WASHINGTON, DC -- A new federal plan to require a
cigarette-style health warning on egg cartons -- that's right:
egg
cartons! -- proves that government bureaucrats think Americans
are too
dumb to boil an egg.
And that's no yolk.
"The eggheads in Washington, DC have gone too far,"
charged
Bill Winter, Director of Communications for the Libertarian
Party.
"This new regulation -- which assumes that Americans can't cook
breakfast without instructions from the FDA -- shows what
happens when
bureaucrats' judgment has been fried, scrambled, and poached by
too much
power."
This month, the Food and Drug Administration announced
that it
wants to require all egg cartons to carry a new warning label,
which will
lecture consumers about the danger of improperly cooked eggs.
The label would read: "For your protection: Keep eggs
refrigerated; cook eggs until yolks are firm; and cook foods
containing
eggs thoroughly."
The President's Council on Food Safety is also getting
into the
act: It has announced it will come up with its own "strategic
plan" to
control egg safety by November 1.
But Libertarians say the regulation has laid an egg.
"Think about the real message behind this warning label," said
Winter. "Bureaucrats are, in essence, saying to the American people: 'You
eat 67 billion eggs a year, but we can't trust you to put them in your
refrigerator, or to cook them properly. So, with our new federally
mandated warning label, we're going to nag you every time you pick up an
egg carton. Why? Because you're too dumb to be trusted.' "
Ironically, the new warning comes at a time when food-borne
illnesses caused by salmonella are falling: They declined by 44% from 1996
to 1998, thanks in large part to voluntary quality-control standards
implemented by the egg industry.
And experts agree that eggs have never been particularly
dangerous: While the average American eats 245 eggs annually, the odds of
running into a spoiled egg is only one in 20,000. So, a typical consumer
might encounter a dangerous egg once every 42 years.
But if bureaucrats can demand a warning label for a problem
that might occur every 42 years, so can Libertarians, said Winter.
"We're concerned that bureaucrats may have missed some
egg-related problems, so we've got some warning labels of our own to
propose," he said. For example:
* WARNING: Remove egg from shell before eating.
* WARNING: Just say no to over easy.
* WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined that you can't
make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
And probably the most useful one, from the perspective of the
Washington, DC crowd, said Winter:
* WARNING: Don't throw these eggs at the bureaucrats and
politicians who think Americans are too dumb to fry an egg.
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