[throwaway50601]

Why the hell is there a list of crisp flavors at the EU? What if I want to make and sell my own original one?

[jodrellblank]

Are you seriously confused why governments regulate what can be put in food and sold to the public?

Here's a classic for you, one of the early incidents which lead to this kind of regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Bradford_sweets_poisoning

Here's some more contemporary links:

https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/food-improvement-agents/add...

https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/food-improvement-agents/fla...

Which includes an answer to your question: "The procedure for authorisation of a flavouring substance is common to the one established for food additives and enzymes under Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008."

[dylan604]

The fact that something called "flavouring substance" is a thing makes me shake my head.

>Are you seriously confused why governments regulate what can be put in food and sold to the public?

Are these the same regulators that allowed Olestra to be used? sidebar--just to check the spelling of Olestra, I used the Mac's force click dictionary access: "Origin 1980s: from (p)ol(y)est(e)r + the suffix -a." WTF? Seriously? We dropped some letters from polyester and called it food ingredient?

Yeah, sounds like some "regulations will save us" doesn't work as expected.

[throwaway59582]

>Here's a classic for you, one of the early incidents which lead to this kind of regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Bradford_sweets_poisoning

I don't see how said regulation would have helped in this case, the shop owner simply mistook fake sugar for arsenic, it's not like he decided to sell arsenic-flavored candies.

[dnh44]

>What if I want to make and sell my own original one?

Then you're free to do so if you aren't putting artificial sweeteners in them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Directive_91/71/EEC

[nforgerit]

I'd say that there's two different styles of legislation here. AFAIK in the US (and maybe UK too) a producer can put whatever they want into their products but can be sued to death in case sth goes wrong. Most EU countries have a different flavor such that they try to tightly control products and their ingredients upfront. Imho both styles have their pros and cons.

[piuantiderp]

Food in Europe > USA. Even the fast food.