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No one controls for the food quality imported in the EU. If you read consumer protection specialized papers, they very often find problematic products. Massive
by Saline9515 9mo ago
No one controls for the food quality imported in the EU. If you read consumer protection specialized papers, they very often find problematic products. Massive amounts of fake honey from China is being sold in the internal market with absolutely no repercussions.
The only way to ensure food safety is to control the production sites, which Mercosur doesn't allow.
- ivan_gammel 9mo ago>If you read consumer protection specialized papers, they very often find problematic products. If nobody controls it, where all those papers come from?
- Saline9515 9mo agoPrivate consumer protection groups have no enforcement power and their action is a drop in the ocean. Honey is a good example, authorities don't control, NGOs and beekeeper unions provide tests and data, the EU gives 0 f*cks and allows the swindle to continue.
- ivan_gammel 9mo agoThis is misrepresentation of facts.
- Saline9515 9mo agoWhy is fake honey still so commonplace[1] in the EU if controls happen? Tests exists and are straightforward. The EU has been saying that they'll stop it[2], after a more than a decade of abuse, nothing happened because the fraud is so widespread but there are no systematic controls. [1] https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/food-drink/03.02.2025-beekeepers-raise-alarm-about-fake-honey-imports-in-latvia.a586230/ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/food-drink/03.02.2025-bee... [2] https://ec.europa.eu/olaf-report/2023/investigative-activities/protecting-eu-revenue/no-money-for-fake-honey_en.html https://ec.europa.eu/olaf-report/2023/investigative-activiti...