Why does the USA approve foods banned in other countries?

When I was in the U.S. visiting my family last month, my boyfriend had a few requests of things that he wanted me to bring back. Lucky Charms are the one food item he had been requesting because all the students at his school told him how amazing they taste.

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I must admit I lived off Lucky Charms during college. My grandmother would get me two boxes from Costco and send them with brownies and fudge for my roommates and me at least once a month.

So in my sophomore year of college, I lived off Lucky Charms, Brownies, and Grandma’s fudge.

I would also like to add that I ended up in the doctor with excruciating pains in my stomach by the end of sophomore year. The findings, nothing was wrong with me. I concluded that it was my diet, yet my doctor did not ask me what I ate nor cared.

I cleaned up my diet as much as a sophomore in college could do and didn’t revisit the subject until I was in my 20s and became a holistic health coach and health nut.

Since my college days, my food choices have improved, and now if I lived in the U.S., I would never buy Lucky Charms as they are full of…