Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Archives

Re: One Cause of Hives (Archive in MCS.)

Thanks, Barbara.

Good to see the word getting out!

The way it is supposed to work is that the company is supposed to prove that a substance is safe BEFORE adding it to a food. However the powerful lobbying of the food companies, with the compliance of the FDA, has turned this rule on it's head.

NOW, the way it works is that the company does it's own testing (Fox guarding the chicken coop.) and that biased testing is what the FDA uses to allow it to be added. THEN, when it is finally proven to be harmful, they just switch to the next thing which will get them through another 10 years of so until that one has damaged a lot of people. The old bait and switch is one of the oldest scams in the business. The only way the companies can get away with this is with the collusion of the FDA.

Walt