Food Regulation Debate

are there any food regulation involved?

It's more like a government oversight in food industry: you're free to reap the benefits, but if you get too many complaints you'll be shagged by a hefty fine.

Food is regulated, so it doesn't seem you have much of a point?

How do you go from “x is in foods” to “x is in foods without any regulatory oversight or fda approval?”

This kind of issue is why the food safety and modernization act (or some version thereof in US) is a necessary evil.http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/People on the internet (including HN) often consider this act a conspiracy by Monsanto and friends to seize control of the worlds food supply, but the simple fact is that people are regularly endangered by food they eat an

You're overly cynical. Nobody in the United States worries about buying adulterated milk, or medications that are actually mixtures of flavored syrup and radium, or bread that uses sawdust as a cheap filler, because there's clear standards for what something labeled as "milk" or "bread" means and regulators with the power to enforce those standards.Lots of other countries don't have those things, which is how things like this happen: <a href="https:/&#x

Sure, there are lots of foods that are legal but unhealthy but you don't have to eat them. It doesn't take much to get informed about the basics of nutrition.The broad goal of FDA regulations is not really to prevent you from eating unhealthily but rather to prevent eggs, milk, meat and produce from making you sick. In that respect the food industry and FDA regulations have been spectacularly successful. Any nostalgia for a bygone era of healthy and plentiful food is misguided.Yo

What does food that regulated by the FDA have to do with this?

Because the FDA exists?? Because that would be fraud to claim otherwise, and fruit/veg sources are easily traceable back to their source, particularly at quantity?

This is beverage sold in the US. It might sound a bit arrogant, but food safety and standards in the US are much lower than certain places. I hope research like this helps improve the situation.