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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by kranke155 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:43PM (#42718863)
look at the health of average person in EU vs US particularly related to food related disorders.

Include obesity, diabetes. Then move onto the GMOs and Roundup and how GMOs enabled mass use of Roundup. Roundup is now being looked into as a potential source of the increase in autism, dementia and other neurorelated conditions.

Keep digging.

Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by Aloisius on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:39PM (#42720385)
Roundup (glyphosate) is in wide use in Europe.
Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by kranke155 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @05:19AM (#42723561)
Not to the same extent apparently because of GMO.

One category of GMO is called “Roundup ready”

It means crops that can take Roundup and survive at high concentrations of glyphosate while natural crops have some limit of concentration. That means higher usage in the US.

Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by WrongAssumption on Thursday January 16, 2025 @12:01AM (#42721453)
"Glyphosate has been assessed 3 times in the EU. The first assessment resulted in initial approval of glyphosate in the EU in July 2002. The second assessment, which was carried out between 2012 and 2017, led to the first renewal of approval.

The most recent assessment was carried out between 2019 and 2023 by Member State Competent Authorities, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), and showed that there is currently no scientific or legal justification for a ban. This led to the renewal of approval of glyphosate in 2023.

Under the conditions of approval and by following good agricultural practices, glyphosate is considered not to pose any harmful effects on human health or unacceptable effects on the environment."

https://food.ec.europa.eu/plants/pesticides/approval-active-...

Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by kranke155 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @05:19AM (#42723564)
If you keep digging you’ll find some countries have banned it.

And because Roundup ready GMO are not in use, the usage is lower in the EU vs US.