the European Food Safety Authority has decided to bad imports from america
any important to their specifically Manning include Apple's the reason why
is because
they have certain strict guidelines when it comes to a chemical known as d-pa
so to give you a sense of what they want any apple with a higher d-pa
count 0.1 parts-per-million is potentially harmful
at least that's what those in Europe believe and as a result
they're like look we don't want to import apples from the United States
because
their content is actually much higher the EPA currently allows up to 10
parts-per-million DP residues for homegrown apples which is a hundred
times bad %uh
Europe's regulation now Europe wanted to be open minded about this now closing
you don't know and EPA does
it basically helps to preserve the Apple for a longer period of time prevented
from going brown
and authorities in Europe wanted to see some studies that indicate that it's not
going to be potentially harmful to you
I it could break down your body into certain carcinogens that could be
harmful
and so they're like looked just give us some information as long as you prove
that it's not harmful we will import your apples
well %uh they fail to do that there was only one study done and the results were
not good enough for the authorities in Europe
but what's so amazing about this is I our EPA
%uh last looked at this issue back in 1998
and they never went back to it they never wanted more studies they never
wanted more information and we're just consuming this Apple
with this product on it with this residue I did that
could potentially be harmful could break down to certain carcinogens in our body
but who knows there is enough information Bon Apetit the hut
oh well way to know and 18 hey and we just said okay all pesticides are okay
to use until you tell us otherwise
that's essentially what our EPA does these days and has done
with all the pesticides that are currently on the market today is that
a company has to say on yeah yeah I think we tested its fine
banks and that day there's no further testing that's done then they're trying
to change that a lot of different to environmental groups are trying to
change that
but with this particular thing you know all we're talking about is something
that
keeps apples from going brown and having spot on am it's just a cosmetic thing
and I would like a cancer yeah if we're gonna give you cancer so that you will
buy this out because it's pretty
yes you know how stupid in american is that much money over morality
what I'm talking about essentially has a money over morality hack
and why it is clear chemical so important to the Apple industry that
they want to put this chemical I had to keep from going round the reason is
because we go to buy an Apple in store you know the dish or growing season for
Apple's rights not twelve months everyone Apple's 12 months around so
they did study
they want to figure out how older apples were in the two per market
apples were up 14 months old an average between nine and 14 months old when you
go to the supermarket to buy an Apple
that thing is almost a year old if not older so I stopped eating apples when I
read that because they sit in warehouses yeah and they put the wax over them they
put this chemical on a man who knows what else the putting on them
and so when you're biting into an Apple it's been sitting there for at least
nine months I have apples in my fridge
a for months without them going bad and I wonder about it and you're done
and I stop eating them till probably because I wanted chocolate instead
which is why they were in my friends for months are but you had sure I was
wondering about that week why is it that they can last this long it's because
they have this residue on that yet but we have a serious box guarding the
henhouse situation with the FDA and EPA and all that
but we do so many things in america backwards I know we all know about pink
slime in the mead
what we do here it is long since been banned in Europe
so we are just doing things because of the way we are just mass-producing
everything
as quickly and as cheaply as possible and this just goes that perfect one-year
is also taken as the European Union taken as a principal the precautionary
principle the idea that
know where I can accept this because you say so you have to prove it and if
there's a question about the safety of the
any particular product then you have to prove that it's a poor not gonna say
like in the United States
all you can put it on the market and we'll find out later
you know if it's safer not you know they say it's not safe but daddy's other
people say it is so we'll just let the market which ironically is already
starting to do that now with like
chickens brought in from China that we're just going to allow to be on our
markets
and that just because they say it's a