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No, it's up to the EU to stop imports from China. It's not possible for individual countries to do it: - Lab testing is complex, requires to identify the DNA o
by Saline9515 4mo ago
No, it's up to the EU to stop imports from China. It's not possible for individual countries to do it:
- Lab testing is complex, requires to identify the DNA of pollens in honey and few countries can do it at the moment.
- Honeys are mixed, so it's trivial to receive fake honey in a country that allows it, mix it, and reexport to another one that forbids it. Same happens with olive oils, no one cares.
- Many brands just lie, given that there is no enforcement regarding food traceability and safety in general in the EU (it's a meme to reassure consumers). Where I live a brand advertising "locally made honey" was found to sell glucose syrup : nothing happened.
- Hikikomori 4mo agoDoes the EU have a centralized food testing agency?
- Saline9515 4mo agoIt does have a food safety agency, but this is a classic international trade problem that is solved at the border since the EU is a trade union.
- spwa4 4mo agoOr in this case - purposefully NOT solved. Who wants to bet "Mercosur" agricultural products won't be checked at the border and will - surprise - turn out to have "issues". Has the forced labor agriculture in South America been solved yet? Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_South_America#History_of_human_trafficking_in_the_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_South_Ame... I guess not. Will the EU check? Hah! Has nature protection been solved yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Brazil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Brazil Nope. Will the EU check? Hah! The EU makes their companies to compete against slavery. First in China, religious-ethnic slavery. Now in South America, also mostly ethnic slavery.
- Saline9515 4mo agoWhatever it takes to sell BMWs !
- Hikikomori 4mo agoThat's what the individual countries are supposed to do.