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Calling the FDA an impartial 3rd party is ludicrous. Are their rcommendations really science based, or are they a watered down compromise of the profitability of the industry? Safe until proven unsafe is an unethical and irresponsible stance by the food industry. Giving customers food that has proven, or even potentially harmful chemicals leached into it honestly cannot be the best alternative. Until there is definitive evidence that what is done with food is safe, it should not be tested on consumers. Food needs to be viewed in a different light than the innocent till proven guilty mantra of the legal system. It is food, not a traffic violation, or even a widget that we unnecessarily demand.

My mom died of some rare unaccountable cancer in her liver, that likely came from years of filtering unknown toxins out of her system, that had yet to be classified as dangerous to the consumer. How many pieces of data like my mom will it take before producers and the rest of the food supply chain embrace their accountability to the end user above the profitability of their business.

Babies are important to watch out for, but what about the rest of us. Are pubescent teen age kids not at an endocrine relient stage of their life?

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