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I believe this comes down to the difference in the US vs EU. The US focus more on the probability of something being harmful whereas the EU focus more on the possibility of something being harmful.

edit: to explain more. There is always a possibility that a meteor is going to crash through my roof and kill me this instant but the probability of that happening are very very very tiny.

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I think the critical difference between US and EU here is that the regulators in EU who are supposed to protect people actually work to protect people.

The regulators who are supposed to protect people in the US work to set themselves up for their next job going to work at the companies they're currently regulating.

No, the difference is that in the EU, you have to prove your product isn't harmful to use it, in the US you have to prove the product is harmful to ban it.

Precautionary principle or something like this.

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