DAG> 13 Banned Foods Still Allowed in the U.S

 DAG> You think the FDA has your back? Sure, they recently
 DAG> proposed two new regulations to up food safety measures,
 DAG> specifically how food processors and farmers can work
 DAG> better to keep their fresh products free of dangerous
 DAG> bacteria (remember that killer cantaloupe outbreak from
 DAG> 2011?). But while it may seem like the government is out
 DAG> to protect us from bad—even fatal—food-borne
 DAG> illnesses, which cause some 3,000 deaths a year, they
 DAG> don't completely have our best interest—or health—in
 DAG> mind.

 No, like any other public agency, they are subject to outside
 influence. In this case, money spent on congress.

 DAG> “For numerous suspicious and disturbing reasons, the
 DAG> U.S. has allowed foods that are banned in many other
 DAG> developed countries into our food supply,” says
 DAG> nutritionist Mira Calton who, together with her husband
 DAG> Jayson Calton, Ph.D., wrote the new book Rich Food, Poor
 DAG> Food due out this February.

 The very fact that the US fights to have GMO foods sold in
 European countries where they are not allowed is evidence of
 that.

 I am in favor of science, but safety is first. We shouldn't have
 to prove it's dangerous, they should have to prove they're safe.

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BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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