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Why are Kinder Eggs Illegal in the USA? (2017x234)
Air date: Oct 02, 2017
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For the uninitiated, Kinder Eggs are a chocolate treat widely available throughout Europe, Mexico and Canada, with the company that makes them, Ferrero (perhaps better known in the U.S. for being the makers of Nutella), selling a whopping 1.5 billion of the eggs per year. Where they don’t sell any is the United States, where the eggs are indeed illegal (though something of a blackmarket does exist for them). So why is a beloved candy the world over explicitly banned in the land of the free?
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Sources:
https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/whatwedo/history/productregulation/ucm132818.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19586352
https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/whatwedo/history/centennialoffda/centennialeditionoffdaconsumer/ucm093787.htm
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title21/html/USCODE-2010-title21-chap9-subchapIV-sec342.htm
https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/whatwedo/history/productregulation/sulfanilamidedisaster/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kinder-egg-toy-death-france-three-year-old-french-girl-chokes-a6822626.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/us/giants-in-candy-waging-battle-over-a-tiny-toy.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/why-are-kinder-surprise-eggs-illegal-in-the-usa-10055273.html
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