Imported US sweets with illegal ingredients seized
Imported US sweets with illegal ingredients seized
Jolly Ranchers and Mountain Dew are advertised on TikTok and Instagram but contain products banned in the UK.
Jolly Ranchers and Mountain Dew are advertised on TikTok and Instagram but contain products banned in the UK.
Sorry, Brits. You can't have our unhealthy food. That's American food for American stomachs!
Honestly I've never realized before that from that low-quarter-view, the eagles actually look kinda cute and friendly, not intimidating like from the side or ridiculous like from the front.
It's the eye socket and positioning. You can kind of see the pocket created by their "brow" in that picture, but we see them as intimidating or what have you, because we are trying to interpret facial expressions as language.
I know someone who disagrees...
Eagles are always cute to me, although maybe not always friendly
And they're saying they can make it without the shitty ingredients, they don't wanna if they don't have to.
The manufacturers of Lemonheads, Starburst Gummies, Hershey's and Jolly Ranchers told the BBC their products were produced legally in the USA and that any products being sold in the UK were being done so illegally, and not associated with their brands.
Jolly Ranchers hard candy has mineral oil in them.
Most often, mineral oil is a liquid obtained from refining crude oil to make gasoline and other petroleum products ... like a liquid version of petroleum jelly. Source
And America allows companies to sell this shit.
AFAIK mineral oil and petroleum jelly are considered food safe. In the food industry they are used as lubricant on machinery that comes into contact with food (like meat slicers or even soda machines). Petroleum jelly is also found in a lot of skin care products, like Vasoline, vapo-rub, makeup -removing cream, and is also used in lip balm.
That being said, oil & gas extraction has and is wreaking havoc on our environment and health. So, while these products may be safe for human contact, they have a cost.
In the U.S. it is commonly found in phamacies and sold as a laxative. It is excellent for cutting boards and wooden spoons since it does not go rancid. It is usually the only approved oil/grease to use on food processing equipment. Commercial and home espresso machines use it to lubricate seals and gaskets.
Unrelated: it is great for rejuvenating Bakelite
If everything around us and inside us isn't somehow related to the oil industry, we Americans would wither and die immediately. Don't you know?
Serious answer though: The FDA is slow, inefficient, and likely paid off from banning chemicals, but every once in a blue they do. States like California take a more proactive role in banning chemicals, and since California has an economy larger than some nations, they tend to have a lot of pull, so all is not lost. America is more like the EU these days than a cohesive nation. Some states are cool, some are ok, some are Texas...but...yeah, we really suck as a whole.
you absolutely consume mineral oil. it is a lubricant often used for food related equipment
Deregulation, baby! 🇺🇸🦅
That reddish-black stuff you’re coughing up is liquid freedom!
We classify mineral oil as food safe. It's a powerful laxative and you really wouldn't want to get a lot of it in your food but I use it on my cutting boards to keep them from drying out and cracking.
Somehow the jolly rancher story just got even worse. Better? Worse.
Is there a way to make homebrew Jolly Ranchers without chemical bullshit? Anyone know of a recipe?
I love how you used the term "homebrew" and not "homemade" lol.
There's even a wikiHow, if you use a search engine you can find it ❤️
Oi Mate, got a loicense for that candy?
american candy is literally drugs /ss
Genuinely surprised the illegal ingredient was not THC
that is now a legal medication and would simply require a tax and loicense
Thanks Teresa May.
Americans dont get Our flavour of irn-bru nor do they get bovril though due to foot and mouth concerns.
“Lights” are also illegal for sale as food products in the US, so no haggis. Thanks FDA. No really, that stuff is disgusting.
You won't eat a delicious all natural haggis supper, but byproduct of crude oil are fine.
Idk what "lights" are, but haggis is bloody delicious
Ah yes, the mischevious substances wrecking our kids' health, smuggled from the New World... mountain dew.
The substance:
Calcium Disodium EDTA, which is banned within drinks in the UK, was found in Mountain Dew.
In animal studies, the crystalline powder caused adverse reproductive and developmental effects and has been shown to contribute to cancer of the colon.But what about human studies?
This paper (PDF warning) states:
No evidence exists suggesting the compound exerts genotoxic or carcinogenic effects. Overall, Calcium Disodium EDTA seems to be safe for use as a food additive, as the noted toxic doses are higher than can be achieved via the addition of Calcium Disodium EDTA to food. However, human data is limited and the gross of available (human and animal) data, as well as the ADI, stems from several decades ago.
However, that paper is almost a decade old. I found this one from just a couple years ago which states:
Numerous studies in healthy animals have shown no considerable acute or repeat dose toxicity of EDTA. Based on a no observed adverse effects level (NOAEL) of 250 mg/kg body weight (bw) for Fe-EDTA, international authorities recommend an acceptable daily intake (ADI) of maximum 1.9 mg EDTA/kg bw for humans.
I worked with someone who downed several bottles of Mt. Dew a day. One day he was laying on the floor of the office and I had to take him to the ER for kidney stones.
Something something no Kinder Eggs!
Yes, it used to have brominated vegetable oil before it was banned for being obviously toxic.
And here I thought just the sugar content was the issue. Welp if I needed another sign that it's time for that colonoscopy, I do no longer.
I'm surprised post brexit eu didn't cut the "red tape" of Food Standards & Hygiene.
weird. what about good candy, like peanut butter cups?
That’s a really low bar you have there for “good candy.”
Illegal in Japan at least due to a preservative used in it https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-candy-idUSBRE87L0IN20120822/
(Seiyu stopped making Reece's here (almost?) entirely so I only get them when family sends them or someone on one of the military bases is feeling kind and gifts us a pack).
Holy fuck.
I’m confused. I’ve been using Swedish Fish to potty train my kiddo so I’m obviously concerned. But I don’t see any of the scary substances on the ingredients: SUGAR, INVERT SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF CITRIC ACID, WHITE MINERAL OIL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED 40, CARNAUBA WAX
What am I missing?
Might be red 40. Colouring agents are highly regulated in the eu. Maybe the mineral oil.
Yeah, it's the red 40: https://www.commodious.co.uk/knowledge-bank/food-safety/food-additives
Edit: you're likely right about the mineral oil too: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/1073/body/made?view=plain#:~:text=Prohibition of mineral hydrocarbon in food&text=(b)no person shall sell,food containing any mineral hydrocarbon.
The article said mineral oil
Mineral oil supposedly. Do your own research since it's your kid, but it's considered food safe here. Food grade mineral oil is used on knives and cutting boards regularly.
It's the red 40.
They included Jolly Ranchers hard sweets containing mineral oil, which if contaminated with other compounds can initiate cancer formations.
It's literally one of the first sentences in the article.
That’s literally the 7th sentence of the article, which is literally not literally one of the first.
Also, how in the hell is it informative to say x can cause cancer if contaminated with other compounds?? Wow, thanks for that amazing reporting, BBC!
THIS JUST IN! Air causes cancer!!*
*when contaminated with powdered asbestos flakes
in Australia we have shops that sell American candy, im pretty sure it's illegal because many of those ingredients aren't allowed in Australian food HFCS being just one because you can't buy it in supermarkets.. i assume it's just not enforced. like illegal vapes that they also sell to children here.