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US regulations are more non-existant than they are lax. In the US a company is free to saturate you with whatever new chemical they invent until you can prove
by StanislavPetrov 7y ago
US regulations are more non-existant than they are lax. In the US a company is free to saturate you with whatever new chemical they invent until you can prove that it is causing you harm. In the EU a company has to first prove the chemical doesn't cause you harm before they saturate you with it. Its why all of us are saturated with hundreds of industrial chemicals and we have no idea what the long term health effects of this saturation will be.
https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/toxic-chemicals-bpa-lifestyle-health-endocrine-disruptors.html#4d1dc3f4bb91 https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/toxic-chemicals-bpa-lifest...
- EpicEng 7y ago>In the EU a company has to first prove the chemical doesn't cause you harm before they saturate you with it. That's not possible. What the EU does is allow things which have been used by other people for some time once they feel comfortable that it's probably ok. In other words, they have guinea pigs.