Some ingredients in your food might be harmful and linked to diseases or cancer, but the FDA doesn’t check them first—companies just say they’re safe, and the government lets them get away with it.

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Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program.

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2024 Oct

The study says the FDA lets food companies decide on their own if ingredients are safe, without checking them — and that’s how dangerous or unknown chemicals end up in our food, which can cause sickness and cancer.

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Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program.

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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307755

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