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Will post-Brexit UK succeed in opposing US food industry
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/06/food-fight-doubts-grow-over-post-brexit-standards
Chlorinated chicken. The EU banned the practice 22 years ago,
13 separate antibiotics classed by the World Health Organization as “critically important” to human medicine were still being used in US meat supply chains, Cattle producers in the US use hormones to induce faster, bigger animal growth but they have been banned in the EU since 1989.,
Ractopamine is a growth hormone used to promote leanness in animals by shifting nutrients into muscle and away from fat deposition. It is administered in the days leading up to slaughter. It is banned by the EU, mainland China, Russia and almost 160 other countries but not in the US,
In the US, products that include Yellow 5 and 6, Red 3 and 40, Blue 1 and 2, Green 3 and Orange B are available for purchase and do not require labelling. The UK banned these food dyes following a 2007 double-blind study that found eating artificially coloured food appeared to increase children’s hyperactivity.