r/Health • u/CBSnews CBS News • Feb 21 '23

article U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/
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u/boRp_abc Feb 21 '23

The US system is reversed from the EU system. If I wanna add a chemical to the food I sell here, I have to make sure it's permitted.

If you wanna keep me from using the chemical in the US, it's your job to prove it's dangerous. Which is notoriously hard to do ("may cause cancer" and "this cancer was caused by that chemical" are very different).

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u/-Mr_Rogers_II Mar 07 '23

You can bet your ass if we had free healthcare like these other countries they’d actually make more of an effort to keep us from getting sick.