FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed

1357 points by AlexandrTheTolerable 8 hours ago on reddit | 79 comments

EverybodyMakes | 8 hours ago

Toxins allowed in food, more pollutants in air and water, mining on public lands... Whatever the corporate donors want, they get, from Republican shitstains.

VerilyShelly | 6 hours ago

And conservative middle America is still preoccupied with hypothetical transgirls playing field hockey and deporting grandmothers on the other side of the country. You know, the important stuff.

EnvironmentalValue18 | 3 hours ago

Because most of them have never been near a major city and all they hear is the blatant and adjudicated (looking at you, Fox/Dominion lawsuit) propagandists painting these wild pictures where somehow, a city pushing incredible GDP like NYC is being run by drug-addicts, strippers, and trans athletes.

They have no fucking idea and just make up wild pictures in their head which they hold as truth. No one that has experience otherwise or lives there can tell them otherwise.

Both-Counter4075 | 7 hours ago

A shitstain would be an upgrade from these idiots.

Sicsurfer | 8 hours ago

Canadian here. Giving Canadians another reason to stop buying anything made in America

unknownpoltroon | 7 hours ago

American here. Giving americans another reason to stop buying anything made in America

PossibleAlienFrom | 6 hours ago

My parents made the mistake of buying a fridge, oven, dishwasher, and microwave made in America and they have had problems with all 4.

whereisbeezy | 6 hours ago

Fucking right

katyr1989 | 3 hours ago

Um yeah! I wanna puke!

dotcubed | 7 hours ago

As a food scientist I take everything with a grain of ionically bonded alkali metals.

Toxicity is always about quantity. We’ve been consuming bad things for centuries!

I’ve seen QA testing for 300 different things added to incoming produce. We should have been alarmed quite some time ago.

Wash everything before you eat. Except for Twinkie wiener sandwiches, those are fine.

Mono_Aural | 6 hours ago

> 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

The issue is sometimes we don't know the right quantity for toxicity, especially when it comes to chronic effects. Hell, it took scientists a couple decades to prove smoking causes cancer, and that's one of the stronger signals you can find in a data set.

frackthestupids | 34 minutes ago

Took even more time to finally warn people about dangers of smoking, because capitalism.

Bozhark | 3 hours ago

Found the AMERICAN FDA

serrated_edge321 | 7 hours ago

What's the best/proper way to wash such things?

dotcubed | 4 hours ago

Water.

bunnypaste | 7 hours ago

You can also keep the twinkles in your car for 10 years as emergency food.

dotcubed | 3 hours ago

They’ve been reformulating since going out of business and being bought.
I’d repeat those experiments before doing that…flavors will change.

Respurated | 5 hours ago

Come on Bob, cheer up will ya.

Kahnza | 8 hours ago

Purposely adding toxic chemicals to food? Is this 1980s cartoon villian world? TF

UlsterManInScotland | 8 hours ago

Wait until you see what they’re doing to the planet

simpleisideal | 4 hours ago

Scooby Doo was the best preparation for the real world. The villains are always just some scheming capitalist.

Boatster_McBoat | 8 hours ago

The outrageousness is the objective

br_k_nt_eth | 7 hours ago

Nah, when it comes to RFK it’s just corruption and stupidity. There’s no grand plan. He’s just getting money from these companies and doesn’t give a shit about anyone else.

x_xwolf | 4 hours ago

Yes, that’s what happens when republicans get hold of all 3 branches of government and people prioritize bigotry over a functioning society.

BaconBourbonBalista | 2 hours ago

Yes, it is. This administration has been doing cartoon villain level shit consistently, but especially in the last 2 years

frackthestupids | 31 minutes ago

All part of making America great, just like the 90’s (1890’s). When you elect a snake oil salesman, expect snake oil

I don't like snakes being turned into oil. plz don't twist snek for oil

brandolinium | 7 hours ago

I thought the guy with worms in his brain wanted to stop chemicals in food? Cuz he wanted America to get healthy again?

Amelaclya1 | 3 hours ago

People misunderstood him. They heard "Make Americans Healthy Again. Implying he might actually want to improve individual health outcomes.

Instead, he always wanted to make the country healthy, by killing off the weak and sick.

chronomagnus | 7 hours ago

We need a government funded study, despite decades of studies already done, to go out and find some kind of evidence that says vaccines are worse than disease... But it's cool if we chill on regulating chemicals known to cause harm to people, especially children... MAHA

CarelessCreamPie | 7 hours ago

No, really, where the fuck is MAHA? Where are those crunchy little disease ridden freaks? I really want to fucking know why they were freaking out that pumpkin isn't an ingredient in a pumpkin spice latte, but this is fine?

Curleysound | 6 hours ago

I think this is an echo of the whole christian death cult mixed with the whole anti-vegan thing. Firstly, they want to punish people for not wanting “traditional food” meaning the 1950’s propagandized “grow strong soldiers” meals, so they are tainting things with poison. Also that they are obsessed with tempting fate ala serpent handling and other things that leave your life “in God’s hands”

hollowhermit | 8 hours ago

And yet these idiots are worried that vaccines cause autism? I would think adding chemicals to food without safety reviews would be 1000 times worse!

bunnypaste | 7 hours ago

I don't think they were ever actually worried about autism as they've done exactly nothing to help autistic people specifically (like the current issue of getting adult diagnoses, or being diagnosed as a female person as they present differently than males do and fall right through the cracks).

irritableOwl3 | 5 hours ago

They would rather a child be dead than autistic based on their actions

Old_Man_Drifter | 3 hours ago

They're not concerned with autistic people. They'd just rather we not exist. You can tell this by how often they use the term as an insult here on Reddit. So I guess that's kind of being concerned with autism just not in a sane or rational way.

kelcamer | 3 hours ago

Maybe they want to eliminate autism so there will be no one else on earth to challenge what they're doing?

Blissyin | 6 hours ago

Idiots? Dude do you think that vaccines are off limits if theyre already trying to poison you using food lol. Seriously why would they be

Im still gonna use vaccines as im afraid of death im just trying to point out that hole in your logic

BlurryBigfoot74 | 8 hours ago

Is anyone really alarmed though? Is this a surprise? Weren't we kinda waiting for this from a guy who bathes in sewer and eats road kill?

oroborus68 | 8 hours ago

Who's the first company to advertise,"Now with more toxins!".

bunnypaste | 7 hours ago

Brain worm working overtime right now while RFK naps with his eyes open.

Izawwlgood | 8 hours ago

Remember MAHA was never about incessing peoples health.

naughtycal11 | 7 hours ago

This administration is straight up EVIL. The ironic part is how they are all Christians. All of Washington needs to cleansed.

echochilde | 8 hours ago

It’s ok everyone. The brain worm said so.

Far_Out_6and_2 | 7 hours ago

Pretty sure there are special meetings by Maga inners it goes like this : let’s brainstorm 5 evil things we can inflict on Americans this coming week

Relative_Average758 | 4 hours ago

Bobby Brainworms is at it again. Wonder how much the Trump administration pocketed on this one.

Ok_Band3086 | 8 hours ago

dude, i thought they didn't like chemicals in our food? so why are they changing it now?

eyeofthelyger | 8 hours ago

The answer is always money

Uracawk | 6 hours ago

Ah yes, the Golden Age aka Gilded Age Part 2: Toxic Boogaloo.

RoknPa | 3 hours ago

This is already happening.

The GRAS Loophole (Generally Regarded As Safe)

"under a rule used since 1997, the FDA has allowed the food industry to independently determine which substances fall into this category, including many new substances added to foods."

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/august/legal-loophole-unsafe-ingredients.html?challenge=d06e90d7-4d8f-4b88-9d8c-10b73beb60f1

Glum_Material3030 | an hour ago

It is not a loophole if it is a legal route to get similar ingredients which have already been approved on the market.

Just keep drinking the Kool-Aid, and you'll be fine.

It's another exception that allows cooperations to self-regulate. Need I cite how well that has worked over the past century?

And don't get me started on "Inert Ingredients"!

TheCriticalGerman | 8 hours ago

For what?!?

ImaginationToForm2 | 5 hours ago

But artificial colors and flavors are bad. I swear this admin is trying to kill us off.

Difficult-Low5891 | 5 hours ago

But MAHA! /s

DiscoRabbittTV | 7 hours ago

That’s maha as shitttt

RoxyLA95 | 6 hours ago

Follow the money. Who is profiting the most from these additives added to our food supply?

DoomerismDoomerDoom | 6 hours ago

Then they're not really experts if they didn't see this coming

753951321654987 | 5 hours ago

All the food is poison all the food is poison 🎵

Saladcitypig | 2 hours ago

RFK's twisted death wish is his policy for the rest of us.

LoudNoises89 | an hour ago

When I see anything that says “Made in America”, I automatically assume it’s cheap and poorly constructed.

PutinDisDickInTrump | 7 hours ago

MAHA! make America hurl again

Frostsorrow | 6 hours ago

Cool another reason to stop buying American products, not that I needed one.

LesnBOS | 6 hours ago

BASF cannot use perchlorate in grain bags in the EU. It's illegal. It's only allowed in rigid PVC large containers that don't shed as much. So basically BASF is poisoning us because it's legal here, but not in the EU.

Amelaclya1 | 3 hours ago

I feel like the Democrats could get enough Republicans on board to impeach this stupid asshole. I hope they do it before he kills us all.

I hope all of the MAHA idiots who voted for Trump are happy. Dipshits couldn't see this guy was a grifter all along.

AlexG2490 | 7 hours ago

“Experts are alarmed.”

Oh really?

Blndby90 | an hour ago

Fml

rebelhead | 44 minutes ago

Food? You mean the stuff you actually eat? Crazy.

saul2015 | 17 minutes ago

all the food is poison

all the food is poison

TopCommission6437 | 7 hours ago

So nothing new then.