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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 34 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The american law prohibiting objects in food predates the kinder eggs by decades. And it's because people use to put all kinds of shit in american food. The law that bans them into is the Food, Drug and Cosmetic act of 1938.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it's a reasonable regulation.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 26 minutes ago

Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it’s a reasonable regulation.

It should apparently be amended, though. There is a known case that it accidentally forbids but should not forbid.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Then how did we have toys in cereal boxes and cracker jacks up until much more recently?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Because it's not inside the food itself.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, okay. I'm assuming there was another law that caused those to get yanked as well?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No, GenX and millennial parents just decided they didn't want more plastic trash in the house so it stopped being a useful tool for tricking children into wanting Diabetes-Os.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

No godamn idea. I don't have to worry about that law and I don't know what exemption they used. I know it exists, why, and that kinder eggs are prohibited due to this law.