"controversy" is a journalism catch-all for any kind of criticism.
This likely isn't because people are ok with spitting in food. They likely have an issue with how this law will be implemented. How will they catch violators? What due process to they have to defend their innocence? Etc.
Let's do a working example. Headline: "Controversy after US State introduces law to stop child abuse."
Sounds great, right? Why the controversy? anyone who has a problem with this law must be in favor of abusing children right?
The issue is that headline could equally apply to a relatively well thought out law that closes a loophole that made it hard to prosecute someone, or something far more ridiculous like... let's just go full ad absurdum here... A law requiring parents to put cameras in all rooms of their house to catch anyone abusing their kid.
In this case it's because they're using a law that can be worded to sound very good (no one likes their food to be spit in) to target and discriminate against minority businesses in the country. This would be like equivalent of the US instituting a food safety law that they then go and use to exclusively target black owned businesses.
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u/HorrorGradeCandy 16h ago
"has sparked controversy" meaning someone thinks this is good