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Hikikomori | on: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
Its up to individual countries to do it no? They've been testing honey here recently and several brands got removed from stores.
Saline9515 | parent
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 | root | parent
Does the EU have a centralized food testing agency?
Saline9515 | root | parent
It 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.
Hikikomori | root | parent | next
That's what the individual countries are supposed to do.
spwa4 | root | parent
Or 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_Ame...

I guess not. Will the EU check? Hah!

Has nature protection been solved yet?

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 | root | parent
Whatever it takes to sell BMWs !