Europe has different, but relatively similar, food safety standards. Some things are more "strict" on one side of the ocean, some are more "strict" on the other, and some are just different points of view with arguable benefit for either perspective.

> U.S. lets corporations poison the population for profit.

Europe is also quite well known for regulatory capture in the food industry.

Industry and academic rankings for food safety put high income countries on both sides of the pond at the top of the rankings.

Most of "food safety" is ensuring that foods don't have contaminants and a regulatory system that effectively ensures that.

Though the Europeans seem not to be exempt from the phenomenon at hand: as the article points out, the study found “a sharp global rise in cancers in people under 50, with the highest rates in North America, Australia and Western Europe.”

> Europe has far stricter food safety standards

But somehow, lots of horse ended up in European beef.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/15/horsemeat-scandal...

I hear this all the time, but the more I countries I go to, the more I see the same trash foods in all the stores.