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As an immigrant to the U.S., I am glad that the U.S. has better protections for the public than some other countries (although inferior to the EU), AND I think that the current legally fraught situation is insane and untenable, both for companies who must obey an insane thicket of regs and laws (which drives them to constantly decrease "quality" and add sugar), and for the supposedly chronically ill almost everybody.
Just got back from a European vacation. Noticed that each restaurant had an extensive allergen list on the menu. Around 15 individual allergens were called out, and labeled next to each it, with an index typically on the back page of the menu. New to the system, we found that crustaceans were a 3 in Spain and France, but in Italy, they were a 2 in some restaurants and a different number in others. The index was always written in the local language. So, if you lived in one region, and knew you had an allergy to “5” (whatever that might be), when you go to another region, if you blindly just avoid items with a “5”, you could still get unintentionally poisoned. The EU really missed an opportunity to standardize the numbering system, and may have caused more harm than good.
That's interesting and unexpected. I wonder whether these were restaurants that cater to primarily to locals, or to tourists.
Who downvoted you so hard and why?
As so often, people who didn't read the article, and whose religious beliefs I must have offended.