US food additives banned in EU. Expert says "almost certainly" making US sick

Re:US food additives banned in EU. Expert says "almost certa... by quickthrower2 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:33AM (#34880377)

But guilty until proven innocent is what being suggested here, so you would need to check thousands of different compounds in say coffee and run trials on them all individually?

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Re:US food additives banned in EU. Expert says "almost certa... by aperson_hello on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:41AM (#34880445)

And to pile on, many of those thousands of compounds are already known to be toxic and/or carcinogenic at high levels.

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Re:US food additives banned in EU. Expert says "almost certa... by Spivak on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @08:18AM (#34880770)

This Starbucks is known to the state of California to cause cancer.

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Re:US food additives banned in EU. Expert says "almost certa... by aperson_hello on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @08:50AM (#34881096)

To be fair, that specific warning is (probably) due to a different carcinogenic food additive: heat

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Re:US food additives banned in EU. Expert says "almost certa... by Volundr on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:34AM (#34883104)

Unless you are making your coffee out of an chemical soup instead of coffee beans it would be sufficient to run trials on the beans.

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Re:US food additives banned in EU. Expert says "almost certa... by joshspankit on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:42PM (#34888746)

The burden of proof would be in the company that wants to sell it. So “you” wouldn’t have to (nor your tax dollars). The company who’s investing resources to bring the product to market would have to. (And it should go without saying that they should also have to fund an impartial third party in order to do that)

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