The US, UK and EU all have government regulations about how much – or how little – cocoa an item can contain and still be considered “chocolate”, but those regulations are much stricter in Europe. In the UK, for instance, after Pladis reduced the amount of cocoa bean-derived ingredients in its McVitie’s Penguin and Club bars to below 20%, both treats were officially demoted from “chocolate” to “chocolate flavour”. In the US, the threshold is 15%, and low-cocoa items like the Unwrapped Mini Hearts can still be described as “chocolate candy”.
From the article, this is where the other answer probably got they link.
Terminally online Europeans and pick-me Americans can’t handle that the two regions actually have very similar food safety and labeling laws. EU is better overall on livestock welfare and doesn’t have the same dairy and corn industry lobbyist problems, but a lot of the “it’s actually illegal to sell this american product here” are just protectionism to keep their economy competitive.
EU has laws stating how much raw cocoa a product that calls itself chocolate must have.
US has none of that
From the article, this is where the other answer probably got they link.
Blatantly untrue.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-163/subpart-B/section-163.130
Seriously you can just lie about US laws to get upvotes on this platform.
Terminally online Europeans and pick-me Americans can’t handle that the two regions actually have very similar food safety and labeling laws. EU is better overall on livestock welfare and doesn’t have the same dairy and corn industry lobbyist problems, but a lot of the “it’s actually illegal to sell this american product here” are just protectionism to keep their economy competitive.