Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to expand a controversial loophole to allow some of the world’s most toxic chemicals to be added directly to food without a safety review.
The “threshold of regulation” (TOR) exemption currently allows dangerous compounds to be used without review in food contact materials, such as packaging or processing equipment, if they are not carcinogenic, and are added at levels below 0.5 parts per billion (ppb).
But campaigners say many chemicals, especially hormone disruptors linked to brain damage and reproductive harm in children, are considered dangerous at levels far below 0.5ppb. Even in its limited form, the loophole has already raised alarm. One TOR exemption that allows the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate to be used in grain bags dramatically increased the amount of the compound found in kids’ cereal, which advocates say could cause brain damage.
Trust the woowoo people to have 0 consistency and even less math.
Clearly aren’t believers in homeopathy. Unless they’re thinking that more has less effect…
Minuscule amounts of toxic materials can evade the immune system & bio-accumulate to ill effect
Pretty soon the FDA will just grind “food” into white powder that can be snorted from toilet seats…for safety.
Same motherfuckers who bitched about fluoride in water are gonna be perfectly fine with this.
America under every republican administration(also some neo-con democrats not trying to dismiss) have always prioritized business over voters.
Fuck Reagan.
Over turn citize United
Release the Epstein files
Hang all the traitors.
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Ds do just enough to not have people rioting, and not enough where the Ds dont have any political capital for the next elections.
Why would you need to use perchlorate in a grain bag?
Search says it’s an anti-static agent.
Thanks. I couldn’t find anything when I searched. I doubt this is the only chemical they could use for that. It’s always about money — like what’s cheapest, or what’s subsidized. Sad sad sad.
Kids get some cancer, so shareholders can get more money. Equivalent exchange or whatever.
Was the fall of Rome this quick?
They have AI to help this time.
So it’ll happen faster then
Read as: we’re already doing this and this is how we let you know
Make America Hospitalized Again
Seems like the plan. Keep Americans in debt
toxic chemicals, it’s what plants crave.
Those of us who are not american can read this. And you folks get angry when our governments, food organisations and consumers refuse to buy your food exports.
Nope, never angry about that. Jealous, but not angry.
The only people that are angry about that are the idiots and supporters to those idiots. Any rational person understands, and many of us support the decision with gumption.
you folks get angry when our governments, food organisations and consumers refuse to buy your food
Pundits and politicians sometimes make a fuss. Maybe some massively rich agribusiness jackasses are annoyed. I don’t think very many real people get angry.
You might say that this outrage is one of our inorganic exports.
Those of us that are paying attention, totally get it - I wouldn’t want to buy our gross food either!
Having 1 food item per week turn out to be toxic/dangerous in some way is rookie numbers–soon enough we’ll have daily food advisory warnings! You’ll never eat safely again! 🥹
Damn, if I were living in the US, I’d start to seriously consider growing my own food, perhaps together with friends and family. It’s getting worse and worse.
What the fuck even is America
The US has been allowing toxic chemicals in food for decades that aren’t legal in most of the world. Reading ingredient lists of US products is fucking horrifying, it absolutely has a major effect of most of the US population.
Better to replace the scary words with E numbers, that makes them safe!
Things like lemon acid also has an E number. This lead to the conspiracy theory claiming lemon acid is a nazi invention, not made from lemons, and is named as such to both fool people believing it’s natural and that lemon doesn’t have “alkalizing” properties. Others just think higher E number equals more dangerous.
