The law declares a specific threshold concentration level, and they are using a level 1/200th of that. They absolutely should suffer severe recompense and punative damages for doing that.
Laws should not allow discretion. That is how you get abuse and discrimination through selective enforcement. If a law would be intolerable and inhumane with 100% enforcement, then that is how you know it shouldn't exist in the first place, and is in fact still intolerable and inhumane even with discretion and selective enforcement.
In this case, the law doesn't in fact exist, and no selective enforcement is needed. The law already does not say that eating poppy seeds is illegal, because that doesn't approach the level to trigger the law.
The law declares a specific threshold concentration level, and they are using a level 1/200th of that. They absolutely should suffer severe recompense and punative damages for doing that.
Laws should not allow discretion. That is how you get abuse and discrimination through selective enforcement. If a law would be intolerable and inhumane with 100% enforcement, then that is how you know it shouldn't exist in the first place, and is in fact still intolerable and inhumane even with discretion and selective enforcement.
In this case, the law doesn't in fact exist, and no selective enforcement is needed. The law already does not say that eating poppy seeds is illegal, because that doesn't approach the level to trigger the law.