Flutterby™! : Food safety backpedaling

Lawmakers pull about-face on food safety 'glove law'

"It had unintended consequences," said Assemblyman Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a physician and chairman of the Assembly's Committee on Health, which carried the bill in the first place. "There was not a specific incident that led to the new rules. The statute was intended to make minor changes to the California Retail Food Code, because food safety is something we have to take very seriously. So we wanted to make sure that the bill was consistent with other food safety regulations, including minimizing bare-hand contact with food."

So WTF? There wasn't a compelling need, but they railroaded this through anyway without asking? Seriously questioning the whole political process right now.