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A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail (www.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MrJameGumb@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The USA and EU both require a full list of ingredients, though.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cool. But that wasn't really what he was saying.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You said you view the USA's regulatory standards as the USA views Nigeria's but the USA enforces a full ingredient list so that's kind of nonsensical. If a can of tomatoes went from the USA to EU there would likely be no issue. Even the more chemical sounding names like "Calcium Chloride" salt are commonplace in the EU, in fact I think it was developed there.

I think regulations are better in the EU but you chose a really shit example to use.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But it wasn't just about ingredient lists but food standards and I literally did not use ANY example at all. Please stop the straw manning.