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These will all almost certainly be making their way into food post-Brexit in the UK.
by stuaxo 4y ago
These will all almost certainly be making their way into food post-Brexit in the UK.
- nly 4y agoDon't worry, our highly efficient, world class, over-provisioned National Health Service will deal with the consequences in short order.
- wongarsu 4y agoThe NHS that totally received the £350 million per week that the UK no longer has to pay to the EU
- ta1243 4y agoWell it did, as part of normal health inflation requirements. The UK spends far less per head on healthcare than almost any other western country, as an absolute amount and as a portion of GDP.
- dtech 4y agocitation needed, United Kingdom seems middling at most and NL, DK, AU, NZ and FI all spend less. [1] [1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?most_recent_value_desc=true https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?most_...
- ta1243 4y agoOECD stats. In 2019 (so before covid costs), as % of GDP. AU - 10.23 NL -10.14 DK - 10.121 UK - 9.875 FI - 9.172 NZ - 9.049 (Also France, Germany, US, Sweden, Canada, Belgium, Austria etc all higher)
- kmlx 4y ago> The UK spends far less per head on healthcare than almost any other western country, as an absolute amount and as a portion of GDP. this is false, but i keep seeing it repeated everywhere. as a portion of GDP the UK is the 4th from the top: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268826/health-expenditure-as-gdp-percentage-in-oecd-countries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/268826/health-expenditur... per capita the UK spends more than NZ, Spain, Italy, Portugal, etc: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/154e8143-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/154e8143-en https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/154e8143-en/index.html?i...
- bombolo 4y agoHow does it then manage to be lower in the quality of care than all of those then?
- gadders 4y agoBecause it's run by the government?
- bombolo 4y agoThose other countries' healthcare is also ran by the government… so cut it out with your invisible hand dreams.
- gadders 4y agoLiterally the first one I checked: "The healthcare system of New Zealand has undergone significant changes throughout the past several decades. From an essentially fully public system based on the Social Security Act 1938, reforms have introduced market and health insurance elements primarily since the 1980s, creating a mixed public-private system for delivering healthcare." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_New_Zealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_New_Zealand
- bombolo 4y ago
- rsynnott 4y agoAs I understand it the reasons for potassium bromate being legal in the US are more to do with the idiosyncratic way the FDA treated things already in common use when it became responsible for regulating food carcinogens. So even a freewheeling Brexit means Brexit UK regulator is unlikely to approve this _today_; if potassium bromate were a novel ingredient today the FDA probably wouldn’t approve it either.
- mlatu 4y agooh yeah grandfather knew BESSSST
- swores 4y agoBut the reason to be worried about UK standards is because the government may want food regulations to be as similar to US regulations as possible, to make it easier/cheaper for American food to be imported here. So the fact that the FDA wouldn't approve it if it were novel today doesn't necessarily mean the UK won't approve it purely because it's already approved in the US.
- Hendrikto 4y agoIn 2017, the UK had 5 times more trade with the EU than the US. I don‘t think they will jeopardize that in favor of a much smaller trading partner.
- rhaway84773 4y agoThat’s literally what successive UK governments have been saying for the past 6+ years. There is literally a bill about to be passed by the government whose only purpose is to destroy all laws aligning the UK with the EU that would prevent trade with the EU for the purported purpose of being able to trade with non-EU countries.
- aembleton 4y agoIs this the Retained EU Law Bill? Looks like there's still a few more steps before its given royal ascent https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3340 https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3340
- rspoerri 4y agoNothing to worry, they are not in the EU anymore...