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Are kinder eggs actually a dangerous product, or are they just getting swept up by broader American legislation? It's my understanding the American law prevent
by JackCh 8y ago
Are kinder eggs actually a dangerous product, or are they just getting swept up by broader American legislation? It's my understanding the American law preventing the importation of kinder eggs is a law against inedible objects from being embedded inside edible objects, which seems generally reasonable. Generally. But are Kinder eggs actually dangerous? Are many European children dying because of Kinder eggs specifically?
- ghaff 8y agoVery unusual but apparently it can happen: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kinder-egg-toy-death-france-three-year-old-french-girl-chokes-a6822626.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kinder-egg-t...
- Luc 8y agoNote she choked on the toy, not on the egg. That could have happened with a US-friendly 'chocolate egg with toy not inside it' packaging as well. The egg has been redesigned some years ago. The two parts now stay attached together.
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoKinder eggs are something that were swept up in a generally well-meaning legislation. It improved safety overall, but generally disallows such products to be sold lest there be a choking hazard. All that said, I think there are ways to get exceptions, but they are shy to give them away. And it really is a shame in this case: though there have been perhaps a handful of suspected choking cases in children, overall they have been quite reasonably safe (based on years and years of them being sold to children elsewhere). It simply winds up being a silly ban done for a good overall reason.
- koide 8y agoI would dispute the reasonableness of that law... Does it apply to cherries, olives, avocado, apples, pears, etc.?
- JackCh 8y agoAs I understand it, it applies to corporations deliberately manufacturing foods that way. It would be ridiculous if the law applied to fruits, but it doesn't. And nobody would earnestly call for the law to be applied in that way except in an attempt to make some sort of rhetorical argument for allowing corporations to put inedible plastic objects inside of food.
- koide 8y agoThe point is why it doesn't apply to fruits. People already feed their children with food that naturally contain inedible things in them. The law would make sense to force labelling so parents can tell if there's inedible things in a specific food item and also to make sure those things are non-toxic. Anything more reeks of overreaching to me. Then again, I'm not as creative as USA food corporations, so I could be having trouble imagining what they'd do if the law was as I'm describing it.