Actually makes me thankful of all the regulations our food suppliers have to follow in the US.
As a European: lol
Yeah - was about to do that
I think EU regulations for food and border-free movement between countries are the two most valuable EU advantages by far
I'm not sure what you're loling about, only major difference between EU and USA nutrition labels are the percentage amount listings.
IIRC - USA is a lot more arbitrary and less interested in the customer safety (and open for bribery, sorry I mean lobbying) and USA also has a good amount of stuff for sale that's not allowed in EU.
There's quite a few articles and videos on the subject, but it's been a long time since I read or watched any.
Is the EU better than the US in this respect? You bet.
Can the US do better? Sure.
But the US is definitely far better with food nutrition labels than many countries with unenforced laws.
They both require ingredient lists, though. This specific case could easily happen to either the EU or USA.
I'm laughing because the EU has far stricter food regulations than the US. The way Americans think about news like this is kinda similar to how we see the US from our perspective here.
The USA and EU both require a full list of ingredients, though.
Cool. But that wasn't really what he was saying.
You said you view the USA's regulatory standards as the USA views Nigeria's but the USA enforces a full ingredient list so that's kind of nonsensical. If a can of tomatoes went from the USA to EU there would likely be no issue. Even the more chemical sounding names like "Calcium Chloride" salt are commonplace in the EU, in fact I think it was developed there.
I think regulations are better in the EU but you chose a really shit example to use.
But it wasn't just about ingredient lists but food standards and I literally did not use ANY example at all. Please stop the straw manning.
As a European: lol
Yeah - was about to do that
I think EU regulations for food and border-free movement between countries are the two most valuable EU advantages by far
I'm not sure what you're loling about, only major difference between EU and USA nutrition labels are the percentage amount listings.
IIRC - USA is a lot more arbitrary and less interested in the customer safety (and open for bribery, sorry I mean lobbying) and USA also has a good amount of stuff for sale that's not allowed in EU.
There's quite a few articles and videos on the subject, but it's been a long time since I read or watched any.
Is the EU better than the US in this respect? You bet.
Can the US do better? Sure.
But the US is definitely far better with food nutrition labels than many countries with unenforced laws.
They both require ingredient lists, though. This specific case could easily happen to either the EU or USA.
I'm laughing because the EU has far stricter food regulations than the US. The way Americans think about news like this is kinda similar to how we see the US from our perspective here.
The USA and EU both require a full list of ingredients, though.
Cool. But that wasn't really what he was saying.
You said you view the USA's regulatory standards as the USA views Nigeria's but the USA enforces a full ingredient list so that's kind of nonsensical. If a can of tomatoes went from the USA to EU there would likely be no issue. Even the more chemical sounding names like "Calcium Chloride" salt are commonplace in the EU, in fact I think it was developed there.
I think regulations are better in the EU but you chose a really shit example to use.
But it wasn't just about ingredient lists but food standards and I literally did not use ANY example at all. Please stop the straw manning.