"Please take note: this looks like a spoof but it's not" .warned the Churches Legislation Advisory Service leaflet I received at work
They warn you reuse jam-jars at home and for private gifts for friends, but you are not allowed to make jam, chutney, etc, and put in reused jam-jars to sell or give away at a public event!
CLAS contacted the Women's Institute,on the assumption that if there were a flaw in all this the WI would have spotted it. But no luck!
I know someone who makes a lot of jam and chutney which is sold by various local groups she supports. The fruit and vegetables come from her allotments and from hedgerows, but the sugar etc she donates. The extra cost of buying new jam-jars would be very unfair.
And why? What danger in practice does reusing jam-jars cause?!
It's that catch-all phrase Health and Safety rearing its ugly head again, used by the authorities to stop people making their own things rather than using mass-produced things which make vast profits for the manufacturers. It would never do to stop supporting our consumer economy or organise things for ourselves, would it!
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