When it comes to the issue of “chemicals” in food, it’s a well-defined term in the EU. It also makes a lot of sense to legislate different substances differently.
It would be madness to say that everyone who sells an apple has to list the thousand of different proteins that are in the apple on the ingredients list in a way that it isn’t to tell food produces to list added substances that normally aren’t found in apples.
On the same token, there’s an argument to be made for the EU policy of saying that when somebody decides to add a new “chemical” to food that wasn’t used before, they have to do toxicity tests in a way that the farmer who’s wheat naturally evolves to express a new protein doesn’t (there are huge problems with even requiring the farmer to know every protein in his wheat).
When it comes to the issue of “chemicals” in food, it’s a well-defined term in the EU. It also makes a lot of sense to legislate different substances differently.
It would be madness to say that everyone who sells an apple has to list the thousand of different proteins that are in the apple on the ingredients list in a way that it isn’t to tell food produces to list added substances that normally aren’t found in apples.
On the same token, there’s an argument to be made for the EU policy of saying that when somebody decides to add a new “chemical” to food that wasn’t used before, they have to do toxicity tests in a way that the farmer who’s wheat naturally evolves to express a new protein doesn’t (there are huge problems with even requiring the farmer to know every protein in his wheat).