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> The report called for an ethical investigation into U.S. rice exporters, It is common to grow rice, test it, and if it fails a test, then you sell it into an
by londons_explore 3y ago
> The report called for an ethical investigation into U.S. rice exporters,
It is common to grow rice, test it, and if it fails a test, then you sell it into another market where the test thresholds are different.
However, this is unethical because safety thresholds are set imagining that different samples of a product will have different levels of contaminants. It is assumed that buyers will eat from different sources randomly.
However, if some sellers are picking which country they sell to based on test results, then a market with a slightly higher safety threshold will in fact be flooded with much more contaminated products, on average. And the people will suffer as a result.