By Jonathan Benson, contributing writer to Natural News
The regulatory process that governs the safety of the foods that we eat isn’t nearly as stringent as many people believe it is. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is on record admitting that it doesn’t even know what many food manufacturers are putting in their products, let alone whether or not these additives are safe for human consumption.
Just because an ingredient or additive is “approved” by the FDA doesn’t necessarily mean the agency ever evaluated its safety through the scope of science. After all, it doesn’t take much to get an additive placed on the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) list -- food manufacturers are given free rein to hire their own safety “experts” to declare an additive safe, which allows them to immediately start using that additive without even notifying the FDA.
