This regulation requires that bananas of the highest quality classification not have "abnormal curvature"[4], something that led to various stories about an EU ban on either curved[5] or excessively curved[6][7] bananas. This has been frequently repeated by pro-Europeans and Euro-sceptics alike; the former tending to regard it as an apocryphal or misleading Euromyth[5][7] and the latter regarding it as an example of needless European bureaucracy.[6][8]
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