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by _ink_ 4 days ago
If it is not allowed to be used in the EU, it shouldn't be allowed to export it.

> Although these chemicals are not allowed on the EU market, they can still be exported from European Member States to third countries. From there, they can return to Europe as residues in imported food — a “toxic pesticides boomerang” that puts consumers at risk.

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The term "blowback" has a lot of applications. For example in WW I, when chemical weapons were used and the wind changed, and you gassed your own troops.

This seems like a new economic-chemical place for the term to be used.