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.
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.
I’m pregnant… yay… toxic chems for the baby!
They wouldn’t want kids to have brain damage because then they would grow to be republicans - if they survived to adulthood I mean, without any vaccines.
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.
Same motherfuckers who removeded about fluoride in water are gonna be perfectly fine with this.
Make America Hospitalized Again
Seems like the plan. Keep Americans in debt
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…
he will allow parasites to be acceptable in food soon.
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.
Minuscule amounts of toxic materials can evade the immune system & bio-accumulate to ill effect
Read as: we’re already doing this and this is how we let you know
Pretty soon the FDA will just grind “food” into white powder that can be snorted from toilet seats…for safety.
Was the fall of Rome this quick?
Which one? Rome fell like five times before it was finally killed. The western Roman Empire, The Kingdom of the Romans in France, The Fourth Crusade, The Fall of Constantinople, and the conquest of Trebizond. Most of these were pretty quick and roughly comparable to the US if you start with Reagan.
Start with Reagan and we’re at what point in history by comparison?
Either crises of the third century or the reign of Romulus Augustulus before Italy was conquered. It’s very much a reform or fall type of situation.
should really be nixon if you want to be accurate
They have AI to help this time.
So it’ll happen faster then
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.
What the fuck even is America
