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Sugar is entirely edible. Perhaps a little too edible. It's also an EU cash crop.
Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products
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#12omg the baby self feeding pillows edit: loads of them https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/ale... I suppose they have had to really scale up the testing/alert system in the last decade or so due to influx of millions of new products
omg indeed. Are those pillow 'handles' suppose to work as handcuffs?
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#13omg the baby self feeding pillows edit: loads of them https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/ale... I suppose they have had to really scale up the testing/alert system in the last decade or so due to influx of millions of new products
Holy shit, how the hell did this ever become a product?! Absolute insanity.
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Taking a word and trying to make it mean something else, such as "sugar is an inedible product", never sits really well with the recipients of the message—in particular when it is then circularly then used "well you can't eat sugar, it's inedible", which no doubt is the point here.
Meanings of words should be used to increase understanding between parties, not decrease understanding between them or push agendas, however well-meaning those agendas might be.
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Corn syrup is mostly US thing.
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#16omg the baby self feeding pillows edit: loads of them https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/ale... I suppose they have had to really scale up the testing/alert system in the last decade or so due to influx of millions of new products
Holy shit, how the hell did this ever become a product?! Absolute insanity.
Any parent probably invented the equivalent of one within the first six months of their kid being born - but I guess this is one of those things that are bloody obvious and desired, but not supposed to ever become products, like pacifiers on an elastic band.
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Taking a word and trying to make it mean something else, such as "sugar is an inedible product", never sits really well with the recipients of the message—in particular when it is then circularly then used "well you can't eat sugar, it's inedible", which no doubt is the point here. Meanings of words should be used to increase understanding between parties, not decrease understanding between them or push agendas, howe…
You can in fact eat quite a menu of inedible things but this will probably harm you sooner or later. Edible or inedible is not a meaning, it's a convention. There even are some things which are considered inedible despite being harmless and possibly tasty, especially if you know how to cook them right and don't eat too much of them.
Did you know radium used to be a popular "edible" ingredient one day? They said it was good for your health. Then one day people realized it's poison. Sugar used to be promoted as having ealth benefits as well (as did cigarettes). And it has to be declared inedible to stop destroying health of billions of people.
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#18Is this a new frontend to Rapex? Did they rename Rapex? Because consumer safety warnings (often toys with swallowing/strangulating hazards) have been available on some EU web site for years (decades, probably).
Yeah they changed the name in 2019 (DECISION (EU) 2019/417), but it has existed since 2001. The name change was "For external communication reasons", probably due to it being read as "rape-x"
What an awful name…
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The headline says "non-food products", so no, that would be stupid. If it is indeed dangerous then it should be regulated as dangerous foods which is something EFSA handles.
People mistakenly consider that food and some corporations support this misconception to exploit it for profit. Some people mistakenly consider silicagel food as well (there would be no need to write "do not eat" on it if nobody did) but this doesn't mean it actually is food. Some even say cocaine is a vitamin. There are many substances which occur in our bodies naturally and play important roles in its functioning b…
Sugar is clearly food, it is easily metabolized and used for energy by our body. Sure it's not healthy in excess, but it is without a doubt food.
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Holy shit, how the hell did this ever become a product?! Absolute insanity.
Any parent probably invented the equivalent of one within the first six months of their kid being born - but I guess this is one of those things that are bloody obvious and desired, but not supposed to ever become products, like pacifiers on an elastic band.
Em, no.
Never had anything like this, don't know any other parents who did either.