On 11/01/17 17:13, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Tom Gardner
wrote:

A classic Wail story specifically designed to extract money
from their "worried well" target demographic: bemoan that
there's a "dangerous" chemical in food/cosmetics; carefully
neglect to mention that the EU banned it 5 years earlier.

If the EU banned it how come it's still, five years later, still in the
food/cosmetics?

Who said it was! That kind of detail wouldn't bother the
Wail; don't forget the purpose of newspaper journalists
is /only/ to sell newspapers.

Besides, it might have been present as a result of criminal
activity; I really can't recall now.

If you want to find more, I'd start at the entertaining
and informed http://www.badscience.net Ben Goldacre is
always worth reading.