A July 31, 2007 piece by Steve Cornett on country-of-origin labeling notes the opinion of ACSH's Jeff Stier that it's not a very good way to protect health:
Here are a couple of things I didn't write but wish I had. From Jeff Stier in, of all places, the HuffingtonPost, is an accurate assessment of the rush to COOL.
As stated previously, I'm cool with COOL, but only because it will help us segregate offensive product.
That worked fine on the recent chili recall. I eat too much canned chili to suit my wife or life insurance carrier, and keep stacks of it at our barn. But I didn't have to throw them all out when that one brand of chili was recalled because I could tell which ones to avoid.
Again, that's the value of COOL. It protects US producers against a food scare from one or another country. But that's a half measure. We need to be able to segretate offending domestic product, as well.
