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Are New Chemical Food Additives Safe?
Do you read the list of all those chemical ingredients on food packages? The FDA tests all that stuff to make sure it’s safe, right? Well, no. The FDA depends on manufacturers to do their own testing. And in many cases, the manufacturers use additives without even informing the FDA.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 1 min readDo you read the list of all those chemical ingredients on food packages? The FDA tests all that stuff to make sure it’s safe, right? Well, no. The FDA depends on manufacturers to do their own testing. And in many cases, the manufacturers use additives without even informing the FDA. And the agency itself says it doesn’t have enough information about many of these chemicals to judge their safety.
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5 of 5A Civil Rights Generation Gap, Unregulated Food and More- 0:00Ferguson and the Civil Rights Generation Divide
- 8:14Officer Body Cams
- 16:42It’s Time to Have a Cow, Man
- 25:12Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
- 41:06Are New Chemical Food Additives Safe?You’re reading this