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Saline9515 | on: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
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 | 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.

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