In the year 1900, the average American ate over 35 pounds of cabbage a year. And cabbage is very cleansing and helps the immune system. But how many of us eat much cabbage these days, although our need is much greater than those who lived in prior times?
Some ingredients haven't been approved because the FDA (that cares so much for your health) doesn't even know about them.
Companies have added thousands of ingredients to foods with little to no government oversight. In the past five decades, the number of food additives has skyrocketed — from about 800 to more than 10,000. They are added to everything from baked goods and breakfast cereals to energy bars and carbonated drinks.
That's thanks to a loophole in a decades-old law that allows them to deem an additive to be "generally recognized as safe" — or GRAS — without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's blessing, or even its knowledge.
The loophole was originally intended to allow manufacturers of common ingredients like vinegar and table salt — when added to processed foods — to bypass the FDA's lengthy safety-review process. But over time, companies have found that it's far more efficient to take advantage of the exemption to get their products on shelves quickly. Some of these products contain additives that the FDA has found to pose dangers.
Read More: http://www.npr.org/.../why-the-fda-is-clueless-about-some...
Some ingredients haven't been approved because the FDA (that cares so much for your health) doesn't even know about them.
Companies have added thousands of ingredients to foods with little to no government oversight. In the past five decades, the number of food additives has skyrocketed — from about 800 to more than 10,000. They are added to everything from baked goods and breakfast cereals to energy bars and carbonated drinks.
That's thanks to a loophole in a decades-old law that allows them to deem an additive to be "generally recognized as safe" — or GRAS — without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's blessing, or even its knowledge.
The loophole was originally intended to allow manufacturers of common ingredients like vinegar and table salt — when added to processed foods — to bypass the FDA's lengthy safety-review process. But over time, companies have found that it's far more efficient to take advantage of the exemption to get their products on shelves quickly. Some of these products contain additives that the FDA has found to pose dangers.
Read More: http://www.npr.org/.../why-the-fda-is-clueless-about-some...
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