[Symbiote]

That sounds like the EU were preventing a known toxin from being used in food. The USA also has restrictions on coumarin in food.

Danish food producers were taking the cheap route (Cassia cinnamon rather than the not-dangerous Cinnamomum verum), and rather than requiring the bakers to use less spice or the more expensive one, the Danish government abused the loophole in the law for traditional recipes.

+1 to the EU, -1 to Denmark and the bakers.

[JensRex]

EU probably felt they were justified in their meddling. Meanwhile, we have been eating Danish cinnamon pastries for who knows how long, and by some miracle have not died. And if death by pastry were to become an issue, it would be one [we could solve ourselves](https://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/english/Pages/default.aspx).

The entire tyrannical bureaucracy of the EU undoubtedly feel they're doing a great service, while a lot of people feel they're sticking their noses where they don't belong, making problems where none exist to justify their existence.

[Symbiote]

The regulation was passed with a huge majority [1], including all the Danish MEPs.

No-one died, but there's an account here [2] of mouth lesions caused by excessive cinnamon bun consumption.

The Veternary and Food Administration works closely with the European Union. [3]

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=PV&refer...

[2] https://doi.org/10.14219/jada.archive.2000.0311

[3] https://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/english/Aboutus/Internatio...