Comment by victorbjorklund

EU law works a bit different. EU law bans everything that has not been shown to be safe (or grandfathered in) while US allows everything that has not been shown to be dangerous. Neither system is perfect.

For example, Chia seeds where illegal in EU before 2020 (but you could still buy them). Not because it was dangerous but because no company had paid money to fund studies to prove that Chia seeds are not dangerous.