The filling of American supermarket shelves is food products with chemicals related to health problems. To a large extent, the FDA allows food companies to determine for themselves if their ingredients and additives are safe.
Companies do not have to talk to the FDA of these decisions, and they do not have to list all the ingredients on their product labels. Instead, companies can use wide terms such as “artificial flavors”.
In 1958, Congress forced that before additives to be used in food, manufacturers had to prove that they were safe and obtain approval from the FDA. However, the congress has widened an exception for substances “generally recognized as safe”, which became simply known as fat.
As designed, Gras has promised regulatory relief for standard ingredients such as salt, sugar, vinegar and baking powder. Over time, “La Faille swallowed the law,” said a 2014 report to the Board for the Defense of Natural Resources.
The Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wants to close or tighten the fatty flaw. He has been the subject of risk of food additives for years and said that he wanted to put an end to “the mass poisoning of American children”.
Whether the changes come from the FDA or food societies, it is clear that the Americans are concerned with what they buy.
