Change NEEDED at the FDA

[mik3cap]

Obama better do something about these jerks right quick. Melamine in baby formula? Failure to police salmonella in peanut butter? And now: HIDING EVIDENCE that MERCURY is found in high fructose CORN SYRUP???

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/01/28/mercury-found-in-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html

DISMANTLE THE FDA. MAKE OUR FOOD AND DRUGS SAFE AGAIN!

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Comments

[saintentreri.livejournal.com]

Srsly! They just keep pouring money at the FDA, and not only do we get them fumbling shit like this half the time; we've got their bureaucrats pulling shit like stalling more effective and less temporary treatments for diabetes so they can keep thousands of people on the line for expensive as fuck insulin. GAH.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

It's a conspiracy. I have no doubt. The FDA is corrupt and overrun by corporate special interests and needs to be TAKEN DOWN.

[that-xmas.livejournal.com]

"The worst test value was apparently in Quaker Oatmeal to Go, which had a value of 350 parts per trillion (ppt). In other words, the worst sample found anywhere had a mercury level nearly 6 times lower than the federal drinking water standard (2 ppb = 2000 ppt). What this means is that you would have to eat 63 pounds of Quaker Oatmeal to Go a day to have the same mercury risk as drinking 5 liters of water at the federal standard each day. And that is the worst product. Only 17 of 55 products tested had any detectable mercury at all, and only 7 had concentrations over 100 ppt."

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

The federal standard was CHANGED during the Bush administration. Using the federal standard as a guideline is bullshit when your yardstick is an anti-science, pro-business government!

You know how much mercury is too much? ANY OF IT. Does someone make oatmeal that has ZERO mercury in it? They do??? Shock and surprise! Why would you possibly condone the introduction of ANY amount of toxin in food??????

[that-xmas.livejournal.com]

The Federal standards for water are much tighter than the standards for Fish which is one part per million (a thousand times higher than the water standard.)

I'm just saying that poisonous isn't just in the compound, it's in the dosage. You can't just freak out because an obviously not dangerous amount of a chemical winds up in the food supply. In that way madness lies.

Plus the form that mercury is in is important. Some forms are easily absorbed by the body, some aren't.