• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    9 months ago

    I’m not sure what you’re loling about, only major difference between EU and USA nutrition labels are the percentage amount listings.

    • NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        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.

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        9 months ago

        They both require ingredient lists, though. This specific case could easily happen to either the EU or USA.

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            9 months ago

            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.