Hong Kong has new rules about food labelling, which the government claim to have started enforcing from last Monday. Many products do now have these labels (cheese apparently contains milk, in case you hadn’t realized).
In the last week or so, this seems to have prompted supermarkets to do two things.
- Withdraw products.
- Attach a disclaimer label warning that a product may contain:
“crustacea and crustacean products, eggs and egg products, fish and fish products, peanuts, soyabeans and their products, milk and milk products (including lactose), tree nuts and nut products”
Hmmm. One can only marvel at a production process which could involve exposure to all those products. Or maybe they think that an all-purpose disclaimer is a way of getting around the rules.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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