Re: new MA knife forms required in UK....

On 1 jul, 16:22, Shuurai <shuura...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 1, 7:50 am, Dan Winsor <dan.win...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jul 1, 6:23 am, YumYumPandaburger <theoriginald...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

My wife has the annoying habbit of somehow accidentally breaking of
the points of normal kitchen knifes (ffs woman, use a philips
screwdriver instead).

So most of our kitchen knifes are actually like this guys "invention"..
I have to admit no-one has been stabbed in our kitchen yet (afaik). It
might work.

Too slow to market - you coulda been a millionare and a hero to Nanny
States everywhere!

New, from the makers of Ginsu(tm), introducing the PandaBurger "No
Owchie" brand knives, guaranteed not to cut, slice, dice, stab, or
even cause friction burns.

Eventually, the UK will simply mandate that all food items come
sliced, cut, and/or chopped in advance, thus eliminating the need for
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This might very well be closer than one could suspect:

Curvy cucumbers, curious carrots return to EU supermarket shelves
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/30/content_11628263.htm

BRUSSELS, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Curvy cucumbers, forky carrots, bendy
beans and other strange-shaped vegetables and fruits are returning to
supermarket shelves in European Union (EU) countries, as new rules
allowing sale of wonky fruit and vegetables will come into force on
Wednesday.

"July 1 marks the return to our shelves of the curved cucumber and
the knobby carrot," said Mariann Fischer Boel, EU Commissioner for
Agriculture and Rural Development.

The new rules, adopted by the European Commission last December,
repealed specific marketing standards for 26 types of fruits and
vegetables, meaning the end of EU rules governing the size and shape
of these products, which include cucumbers, Brussels sprouts, melons,
mushrooms and garlic.

The weird standards, introduced more than 20 years ago, have been
derided by critics as a proof of EU's madness to regulate everything,
under which a Class 1 green asparagus must be green for 80 percent of
its length, Class 1 cucumbers should not be bent by a curve of more
than ten millimeters per ten centimeters, and a string of onions must
have 16 onions to qualify.

Forked carrots, onions that are less than two thirds covered with
skin and the over bent cucumbers are excluded from supermarket
shelves.

Now the rules governing the size and shape of fruits and
vegetables will be consigned to history.

Although for ten types of fruits and vegetables, including apples,
strawberries and tomatoes, marketing standards will remain in place,
EU member states could for the first time allow shops to sell those
products that do not respect the standards, as long as they are
appropriately labeled.

In other words, the new rules will allow national authorities to
permit the sale of all fruits and vegetables, regardless of their size
and shape. For example, an apple which does not meet the standard
could still be sold in the shop, as long as it was labeled "product
intended for processing" or equivalent wording.

The commission said the repeal of the excessive standards forms
part of its ongoing efforts to streamline and simplify EU rules and
cut red tape, and it will cut waste and allow consumers a wider choice
of products.

"This is a concrete example of our drive to cut unnecessary red
tape. We do not need to regulate this sort of thing at EU level. It is
far better to leave it to market operators," Boel said.

"The changes also mean that consumers will be able to choose from
the widest range of products possible. It makes no sense to throw
perfectly good products away, just because they are the 'wrong' size
and shape," she added.
.

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