On 09/21/2016 02:30 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 9/21/2016 12:18 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 9/21/2016 3:12 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:06:14 -0700, Whirled Peas wrote:
>>>
>>>> I saw an example of this recently while waiting for a pizza. I could
>>>> see
>>>> directly into the kitchen and a person was dumping out pounds of salami
>>>> and other toppings directly into a standard 33-gallon trash can that
>>>> was
>>>> nearly full. Every so often, he would sprinkle some white powder on top
>>>> of it. I can pretty well guarantee it wasn't Parmesan.
>>>
>>> Are you nuts?
>>>
>>> Retailers do not purposely poison the food they have to throw away.
>>> That would make them extremely liable when there was practically no
>>> liability previously.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>>
>>
>> May have been baking soda so it would not stink while it rotted.
>
> That sounds more likely, Ed.
>
> Jill

Original Poster here. No, I'm not nuts. Here's one story of using bleach
that happened in Nevada. Executive summary: a farm-to-fork organization
had set up a dinner spotlighting local farm products for their
customers. Health inspector shows up and demands the food be destroyed
by dumping it in a trash can and pouring bleach over it.

<http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/blog/2011/10/24/quail-hollow-farm-dinner/>

Here's a 10-page pdf from the Missouri State Health Department stating
rules for disposing of condemned food. On page 4, section 12.A.IV, it
says that "distressed" food should be denatured by pouring bleach over it.

<http://health.mo.gov/atoz/ehog/pdf/Ch_3.5.pdf>

Other links even suggest using slaked lime to denature the food.