UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US

[libertybele]

Sprinkles banned?

UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US

The owner of a bakery in northern England has been left with a bitter taste in his mouth after authorities told him he had to stop using banned sprinkles sourced from the US.
West Yorkshire Trading Standards said the sprinkles contained an artificial coloring which isn't approved for use in sprinkles in the UK.
The sprinkles had the red food coloring E127, or erythrosine. E127 is only permitted for use in cocktail cherries and candied cherries in the UK and the EU, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Trading Standards sent to CNN Thursday.

But the owner of the bakery isn't happy that his most popular product has lost out on its prize topping.

Rich Myers, director and founder of Get Baked bakery in Leeds, told CNN he had been using the sprinkles since opening the business in July.

Myers said he bought the offending sprinkles from a UK wholesaler, and said he had no idea there was any issue until West Yorkshire Trading Standards visited the business on September 30.
"I thought it was a joke at first, I thought it was someone pulling a prank," he said on Thursday.
"It's quite an intimidating process really, being interviewed by Trading Standards. It's not something you expect to happen when you run a little bakery."..............

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/uk/sprinkles-bakery-banned-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

[jmyrlefuller]

You'd be surprised how many artificial colors and flavors that are allowed here in the USA are banned in the UK and the EU. Conversely, there are a few additives (such as sodium cyclamate) that are illegal in the USA that are fully legal in most other parts of the world. So you will often see totally different formulations of food products here in America compared to Europe.