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I don't like that this is yet another benevolent central service. How do you know to trust the "supervision" or their assessment? |
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Every nation in the world seems to have different views about which food additives are harmful and which are harmless. |
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I guess rather than a single authority you could open-source it and allow everybody to post comments about food additives, but you'd end up with the "aspartame makes your brain dissolve" bunch next to the International Federation of Arsenic Manufacturers all posting equally inaccurate reports. |
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Of course there are already numerous websites of varying trustworthiness giving information on food additives, so I guess you'd just need to add a central database of food ingredients linked to one of those. |
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Doesn't the USFDA already do this for food manufacturers? |
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The WHO already lists acceptable levels of certain additives and contaminants, for most food sources. |
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That doesn't stop the anti-MSG nuts, or the anti-phenylalanine crowd running about and shouting about how the sky is falling, but it may help to inform the rational public. |
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