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Florida and New York have come together and agreed on labeling and inspection. There's nothing stopping the US and Germany from doing the same.

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Florida & New York “agree” because they’re both governed by the FDA. Even if a state wanted to import German baby formula, the federal government would not allow it.

> There's nothing stopping the US and Germany from doing the same.

Great. So we should do that, right? You agree that Biden should sign an executive order saying any infant formula approved by the EU is legal to sell in the United States.

I would support standardizing labeling and inspection requirements with the EU. I don't support more half measure executive orders that expand the executive branch's power because Congress is too broken to do anything... but I digress.

Should we do the same for other nations? Is Chinese baby formula safe? If not, by what metric do we decide which nations' formula is sufficiently safe?

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