• trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Aren’t the US and EU standards on how to produce and sell eggs so incompatible that it’s illegal to import eggs from the EU into the US?

    • frank@sopuli.xyz
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      3 hours ago

      I’ve always heard that but our eggs in Denmark are all refrigerated in the stores

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      8 hours ago

      What do you mean? They have to many nutrients and good stuff in them for the American stomach?

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      4 hours ago

      American eggs are required by regulations to be washed. This includes wholesale.

      European egg producers are not going to invest in washing machines for a temporary market. America needs to either accept a breach of their own regulations and wash the eggs themselves, or offer a price that makes it worthwhile for the European producers to follow American regulations.

      Overall, with potential tariffs and additional cost for transport and washing, it seems like a bad solution. It would probably be easier for US to produce more eggs themselves.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s the US which washes them so I guess that could be done on import.