The food authorities said the instant ramen contained such high capsaicin levels consumers could be poisoned.

Three fiery flavours of the Samyang instant ramen line are being withdrawn: Buldak 3x Spicy & Hot Chicken, 2x Spicy & Hot Chicken and Hot Chicken Stew.

Denmark’s food agency issued the recall and warning on Tuesday, urging consumers to abandon the product.

It’s unknown if any specific incidents have prompted the Danish authorities into taking action.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    145·
    5 months ago

    They were recalled because the level of Capsaicin has caused symptoms of poisoning in younger individuals

    Is it really “poisoning” if some subset of consumers can’t eat something? Ok. It’s poisoning. Y’all really focusing on this part of my comment. We all know “the dose makes the poison” though. So “poisons” are clearly allowed to be sold as food.

    Like if some Danes are severely allergic to shellfish are they going to pull all crabs off the market?

    If it’s temporary until labeling standards can be defined and implemented, that makes sense to me but just blanket removal seems like an overreaction.

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      144·
      5 months ago

      To the doctor treating a patient, they don’t care about the legal definition. A poisoned patient is a poisoned patient.

      Additionally, “causing symptoms of” a thing is a very different statement from “causing”. Covid causes symptoms of the flu, for example.

            • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              5 months ago

              My take is that the people who were treated were treated for symptoms of poisoning, and that pretending they weren’t is a stupid, petty, and useless line to fixate on. They were exhibiting symptoms of poisoning. They weren’t poisoned in the traditional sense that immediately comes to mind when you hear the word and imagine the action, but what happened to them was the same stuff that would happen to someone who was. We can all move on now.

              The problem is that the ban is a fucking stupid idea as compared to better labelling and/or age controls.

              • terminally_offline@infosec.pub
                12·
                5 months ago

                Yes let’s move and ignore the fact that what you’re saying is any product that can make anyone remotely sick should be treated as poison. 🙄🙄🙄

                • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  5 months ago

                  No, what I’m saying is that if you drink a gallon of vodka you’d have alcohol poisoning. If you drink a bathtub of water you’d have water poisoning, a real thing. If you eat a shit ton of concentrated capsaicin… You’d have…?

                  • terminally_offline@infosec.pub
                    1·
                    5 months ago

                    A ban, apparently. It being called poison is the entirety of the justification behind the product being taken off the shelves. Yet here you are reaffirming that it should be categorised as poison.

        • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          If that kilo of cheese were artificially somehow shrunk down to a single serving and marketed to cheese enthusiasts as “the cheesy challenge”… Maybe?

          You would still have some kind of poisoning if you’re lactose intolerant, importantly.

          I think my own point is that someone showing symptoms of poisoning in this context is valid, even if banning a super-spicy food is a heavy-handed reaction to what would probably be better solved with better labelling and in an extreme case age restriction.