{"id":15726,"date":"2024-12-15T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15726"},"modified":"2024-12-15T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:24:42","slug":"why-are-foods-banned-in-other-places-still-on-us-grocery-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15726","title":{"rendered":"Why are foods banned in other places still on US grocery shelves?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;European countries take a much more precautionary approach to additives in their food, Benesh says. \u201cIf there are doubts about whether a chemical is safe or if there\u2019s no data to back up safety, the EU is much more likely to put a restriction on that chemical or just not allow it into the food supply at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the US, we\u2019re more likely to see action at the state level.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California banned four chemicals in 2023<\/a>: brominated vegetable oil, Red Dye No. 3, propylparaben, and potassium bromate. This year, lawmakers in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cspinet.org\/page\/where-red-3-legal-see-where-your-state-stands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about a dozen states<\/a>&nbsp;have introduced legislation banning those same chemicals and, in some states, additional chemicals as well. But federal oversight has been limited, constrained by priorities, authority, and by a lack of resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/explain-it-to-me\/381121\/food-candy-ingredients-coloring-dye-fda\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/explain-it-to-me\/381121\/food-candy-ingredients-coloring-dye-fda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;European countries take a much more precautionary approach to additives in their food, Benesh says. \u201cIf there are doubts about whether a chemical is safe or if there\u2019s no data to back up safety, the EU is much more likely to put a restriction on that chemical or just not allow it into the food supply at all.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the US, we\u2019re more likely to see action at the state level. California banned four chemicals in 2023: brominated vegetable oil, Red Dye No. 3, propylparaben, and potassium bromate. This year, lawmakers in about a dozen states have introduced legislation banning those same chemicals and, in some states, additional chemicals as well. But federal oversight has been limited, constrained by priorities, authority, and by a lack of resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/explain-it-to-me\/381121\/food-candy-ingredients-coloring-dye-fda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[923,725,1529,236,551,619],"class_list":["post-15726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-european-union","tag-food","tag-grocery-stores","tag-regulation","tag-regulations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15727,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions\/15727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}