EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
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EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
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Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#2Companies that poison the people like this should be sanctioned, along with their owners. Greed and profiteering
Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#3Companies that poison the people like this should be sanctioned, along with their owners. Greed and profiteering
Wasn't the EU fresh from a scandal that they voted all sorts of laws, sued lots of EU companies, and then allowed Chinese companies to import lots of stuff that obviously violated all those laws for 20+ years?
From safety regulations to baby toys with lead paint.
The EU will probably do nothing again.
Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#4Companies that poison the people like this should be sanctioned, along with their owners. Greed and profiteering
Wasn't the EU fresh from a scandal that they voted all sorts of laws, sued lots of EU companies, and then allowed Chinese companies to import lots of stuff that obviously violated all those laws for 20+ years? From safety regulations to baby toys with lead paint. The EU will probably do nothing again.
When it comes to safety regulations as with everything else, some countries do not succeed, others do not try
Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#5There are all kinds of toxic residues and contaminants in the US food supply because there's a lack of testing, lack of regulation, lack of enforcement, and a lack of the precautionary principle. Meanwhile, farmers will continue spraying RoundUp on oats just before harvest, rice grown in the US will contain arsenic from naturally-occurring contaminated soils, and almost all bread contains toxic crap banned in the rest of the world.
Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#6For spices and tea it really makes sense to buy organic (not that there are no fraudsters but still).
Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#7Companies that poison the people like this should be sanctioned, along with their owners. Greed and profiteering
Wasn't the EU fresh from a scandal that they voted all sorts of laws, sued lots of EU companies, and then allowed Chinese companies to import lots of stuff that obviously violated all those laws for 20+ years? From safety regulations to baby toys with lead paint. The EU will probably do nothing again.
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Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#8There are all kinds of toxic residues and contaminants in the US food supply because there's a lack of testing, lack of regulation, lack of enforcement, and a lack of the precautionary principle. Meanwhile, farmers will continue spraying RoundUp on oats just before harvest, rice grown in the US will contain arsenic from naturally-occurring contaminated soils, and almost all bread contains toxic crap banned in the res…
This article is about the EU food supply, and does not appear to attribute the contaminants to US exports. Why are you bringing American cultivation practices into this?
If anything, this OP demonstrates that the EU regulations are futile (though that may be an overstatement).
Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#9There are all kinds of toxic residues and contaminants in the US food supply because there's a lack of testing, lack of regulation, lack of enforcement, and a lack of the precautionary principle. Meanwhile, farmers will continue spraying RoundUp on oats just before harvest, rice grown in the US will contain arsenic from naturally-occurring contaminated soils, and almost all bread contains toxic crap banned in the res…
This article is about the EU food supply, and does not appear to attribute the contaminants to US exports. Why are you bringing American cultivation practices into this? If anything, this OP demonstrates that the EU regulations are futile (though that may be an overstatement).
EU generally leads the developed world in regulation, that has become a meme and a joke.
but for Food related stuff, EU standards and regulation are truly superior for consumers, relative to US and other countries
Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
#10For spices and tea it really makes sense to buy organic (not that there are no fraudsters but still).
Just buy from places where these laws are in effect instead of imports from other countries where they legally use these pesticides.