DAG> 13 Banned Foods Still Allowed in the U.S   
      
    DAG> You think the FDA has your back? Sure, they recently   
    DAG> proposed two new regulations to up food safety measures,   
    DAG> specifically how food processors and farmers can work   
    DAG> better to keep their fresh products free of dangerous   
    DAG> bacteria (remember that killer cantaloupe outbreak from   
    DAG> 2011?). But while it may seem like the government is out   
    DAG> to protect us from bad—even fatal—food-borne   
    DAG> illnesses, which cause some 3,000 deaths a year, they   
    DAG> don't completely have our best interest—or health—in   
    DAG> mind.   
      
    No, like any other public agency, they are subject to outside   
    influence. In this case, money spent on congress.   
      
    DAG> “For numerous suspicious and disturbing reasons, the   
    DAG> U.S. has allowed foods that are banned in many other   
    DAG> developed countries into our food supply,” says   
    DAG> nutritionist Mira Calton who, together with her husband   
    DAG> Jayson Calton, Ph.D., wrote the new book Rich Food, Poor   
    DAG> Food due out this February.   
      
    The very fact that the US fights to have GMO foods sold in   
    European countries where they are not allowed is evidence of   
    that.   
      
    I am in favor of science, but safety is first. We shouldn't have   
    to prove it's dangerous, they should have to prove they're safe.   
      
    ...   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... It is by coffee alone I set my mind in motion.   
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