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> How the average American, with the worst consumer protection laws ...

Surely there's some hyperbole there. For example, the US doesn't have a problem with lead chromate in their turmeric.

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> For example, the US doesn't have a problem with lead chromate in their turmeric.

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2016/08/six-brands-of-turmeri...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415259/

What changed?

Exceptions don't disprove rules.

The GP stated that the US has the worst protections.

So a single counterexample suffices.

No it doesn't. Statistics is robust to outliers compared to logic, and GP was making a statistical claim.

It’s not intended to be an exception disproving the rules. It’s a trigger to induce the rational reader to recognize the obviously fallacious hyperbole of accusing the US of having the worst consumer protection law.

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