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Presumably mass products have some QA that goes beyond what I routinely expect of a food startup like Meal Squares. I may be wrong but maybe it'd help of they'd explain their production process.
Producing food for sale to the public is heavily regulated in the first world. The regulations do not have exceptions for startups.
In Germany actual foot safety you get at the store down the street is at higher QA than the law requires. Our supermarkets often do toxicity tests with higher standards than the law requires and don't simply trust the manufacturer of a product.
If you have direct to consumer sales you don't have an intermediary doing QA.
On the other hand a US supermarket might not have strong QA.
But experience shows that smaller (or less sophisticated/mature) businesses don't handle (or even know about) all the regulations as well as large ones. De jure you are right but de facto you are not.
If you're claiming de facto, I would like to see some evidence :-P
It is more difficult to come up with evidence than I expected but at least I found this
http://www.jnbit.org/upload/Hyland_Kennedy_Mellor-2-2-2004.pdf
I believe in this instance he was reasoning alethically. De facto you are not necessarily correct.
You'd think so but in the past that hasn't always been the case. In the UK they had the tesco-horse-meat thing (meat was supposed to be beef) and in ireland there was a case where huge quantities of animal feed were contaminated and as a result meat from the animals was quite highly contaminated and there was a massive recall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Irish_pork_crisis
Well, going on research run by a government council rather than a PA firm for a supermarket or retailer...
http://www.leicester.gov.uk/news/news-story-details?nId=81297
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Hm, that is interesting but addresses the opposite of mass products: locally produced and labelled meat products. For those my estimates would look much different.
Where did it say they were locally produced? Takeaways don't normally slaughter their own lamb.
Normally they buy from wholesalers and large suppliers.
Right and the the mass product chain thus ends at the wholesaler.