• m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    Eventually we Canadians won’t even have to boycott American agricultural products, they just won’t be able to sell them to us because they won’t pass our safety requirements.

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      I already subscribe to y’alls government emails about recalls, I suggest other Americans do too because many products are sold in both places, and hopefully it would be too expensive to set up two production lines, one for lower or nonexistant US standards and one for Canada. https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en for 'muricans who are curious

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      This is already happening a lot. Take poultry for example.

      In the USA, you can chemically rinse chicken (usually in acids, but in the past in chlorine) so that it won’t have any Salmonella or Campylobacter bateria on it.

      The EU, you’re not allowed to do that, but you’re also not allowed to have those bacteria. That means you have to raise the chickens in a MUCH cleaner environment. The same goes for eggs, which you can’t wash, so they have to be clean from the farm.

      As a result, you can’t export US chicken to the EU, because it doesn’t meet the safety standards. And that’s about to get worse. You can absolutely export EU chicken to the US, but it likely won’t be competitively priced.