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The EU archived “Euromyths” printed in UK media (2018)

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Re: The EU archived “Euromyths” printed in UK media (2018)

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> Other stories include speculation that curved bananas are to be banned It’s acting not so far fetched as there was an actual regulation for this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No....

It’s misrepresented. The regulation unified laws across countries to enable trade. It actually cut down on laws by creating one to cover all countries. Countries already had their own differing laws on food standards before making trade difficult.

Re: The EU archived “Euromyths” printed in UK media (2018)

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Am I missing something? There is a huge list, which are rebuked here or somewhere. But where exactly? edit: additionally, needs 2018 in the title?

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/

I think it should be here, but it seems broken for me atm

Edit: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/20200131192225/https://...

This one works

Re: The EU archived “Euromyths” printed in UK media (2018)

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post #23
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> Other stories include speculation that curved bananas are to be banned It’s acting not so far fetched as there was an actual regulation for this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No....

It’s misrepresented. The regulation unified laws across countries to enable trade. It actually cut down on laws by creating one to cover all countries. Countries already had their own differing laws on food standards before making trade difficult.

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Re: The EU archived “Euromyths” printed in UK media (2018)

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> Other stories include speculation that curved bananas are to be banned It’s acting not so far fetched as there was an actual regulation for this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No....

It doesn't seem that weird to have a regulation for having the same classes of quality across the union. Not every banana sold has to fall into the "extra" class.

Re: The EU archived “Euromyths” printed in UK media (2018)

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post #23
post #10

> Other stories include speculation that curved bananas are to be banned It’s acting not so far fetched as there was an actual regulation for this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No....

It’s misrepresented. The regulation unified laws across countries to enable trade. It actually cut down on laws by creating one to cover all countries. Countries already had their own differing laws on food standards before making trade difficult.

Except you could enable trade without banning curvy bananas.

All they had to do was standardize a rating system for bananas, and then countries could chose to ban whichever ratings they liked.

Its a clear system that allows and enables trade, while letting countries have their own regulation.

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