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Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about chicken? Did you manage to avoid chlorination?

For tea, the maximum residue level (MRL) was increased by 4,000 times for both the insecticide chlorantraniliprole and the fungicide boscalid. For the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, classed as a “probable human carcinogen” by the World Health Organization (WHO), the MRL for beans was raised by 7.5 times...Strikingly, the UK chose to adopt the Codex MRLs only where they offered lower protection to consumers. Where the Codex standard was stricter, the HSE decided to retain the weaker British MRL.

Holy mother of God!

[–] towerful 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is what "cutting red tape", "smarter regulation" and "taking back control" means.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It does when you follow US capitalist policy. Unlike many places in the Europe, we (the USA) never suffered the direct horrors of war, in the homeland, so many places in Europe developed robust public safety and health policies. It grieves me deeply to see that people are forgetting what true national wealth and treasure is, and are allowing it to be eroded, to appease the US. Imo, rather than bowing to horrible US policy in the face of pressure, the whole world, including us, would be better for Europe standing up to us and pressuring us into better policy. I'm not casting blame, we are humans and capitalists are capitalists. I just see a better world, in my dreams.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The grift that keeps on giving.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I read that as testicle residues and was intrigued