{"id":187698,"date":"2026-01-28T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/fact-check-will-the-mercosur-trade-deal-open-the-door-to-toxic-food-in-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:49:00","slug":"fact-check-will-the-mercosur-trade-deal-open-the-door-to-toxic-food-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/fact-check-will-the-mercosur-trade-deal-open-the-door-to-toxic-food-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Will the Mercosur trade deal open the door to ‘toxic’ food in the EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From farmers burning tyres outside the European Parliament to motorway blockades across the continent, tensions around the EU-Mercosur trade agreement don’t look set to go away. Many critics argue that it will lead to a flood of “toxic” products on the European market, but how true is this?<\/p>\n

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From farmers burning tyres outside the European Parliament to motorway blockades across the continent, tensions around the EU-Mercosur trade agreement don’t look set to go away. Many critics argue that it will lead to a flood of “toxic” products on the European market, but how true is this? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":187699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}