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by Saline9515 152 days ago
Food safety is ensured by controlling at the production level, with physical inspections. Given the sheer amount of food traded and imported the lab measures are very unreliable and costly.

Private consumer protection groups very often find problematic products. Honey is a good example, massive fake honey from China has been being dumped in the EU for the last 20 years, authorities don't care at all and allow it to continue.
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ivan_gammel 152 days ago
What do you mean “don’t care at all”? There’s literally a fresh update to EU honey regulation that just came into effect.

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/animal-products/hon...

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Saline9515 152 days ago
Yes, the EU complained and regulated it in 2021[1], 2023[2], and nothing has been solved[3] since we don't control the imports nor ban them when importers don't act to reduce fraud and there is no enforcement when fraud happens.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/china-honey-xi-jinping-bruss...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/olaf-report/2023/investigative-activiti...

[3] https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/food-drink/03.02.2025-bee...

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