Less than a year ago, this sort of thing was still called a "scandal", now it's just business as usual.

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2026/01/08/nestle-infant-formula-scandal-escalates/

I don’t get it. Doesn’t this poison them too, along with the plebs? Do they just not care?

That's nothing new. Just compare American and European versions of a number of food products, and you will find stuff in the American versions that are even illegal in China...

Bring back yoga mat bread at Subway. It’s gone downhill since they took it out.

Red #5 is back, baby!

Trust the woowoo people to have 0 consistency and even less math.

Minuscule amounts of toxic materials can evade the immune system & bio-accumulate to ill effect

Pretty soon the FDA will just grind "food" into white powder that can be snorted from toilet seats...for safety.

Same motherfuckers who bitched about fluoride in water are gonna be perfectly fine with this.

America under every republican administration(also some neo-con democrats not trying to dismiss) have always prioritized business over voters.

Fuck Reagan.

Over turn citize United

Release the Epstein files

Hang all the traitors.

Why would you need to use perchlorate in a grain bag?

Was the fall of Rome this quick?

Make America Hospitalized Again

Read as: we’re already doing this and this is how we let you know

toxic chemicals, it's what plants crave.

Having 1 food item per week turn out to be toxic/dangerous in some way is rookie numbers--soon enough we'll have daily food advisory warnings! You'll never eat safely again! 🥹

What the fuck even is America

Damn, if I were living in the US, I'd start to seriously consider growing my own food, perhaps together with friends and family. It's getting worse and worse.

But MAHA though right?

They wouldn't want kids to have brain damage because then they would grow to be republicans - if they survived to adulthood I mean, without any vaccines.

Do they think they are somehow exempt from toxic food?

Or is it that MAGA endtime brainworm yet again?

he will allow parasites to be acceptable in food soon.

Republican eugenics.

And that's supposed to make America healthy again?

The US has been allowing toxic chemicals in food for decades that aren't legal in most of the world. Reading ingredient lists of US products is fucking horrifying, it absolutely has a major effect of most of the US population.

Those of us who are not american can read this. And you folks get angry when our governments, food organisations and consumers refuse to buy your food exports.

It should be a rule that cabinet members of the government and leadership of oversight agencies are obligated to partake in the products. If they don't, they lose their job.

This article is a weird mix of fearmongering / pseudoscience and actual real concerns. I don't like that especially because I consider the Guardian to be a pretty good source, but a lot in this article makes me doubt their journalistic integrity.

For example, they mention substances acting as fillers or binders - at 0.5 parts per billion. Anything with that little CANNOT by its very nature be a binder or filler. It would be as ridiculous as trying to say an ant on a highway was "speeding" or something like that.

Also, when they talk about companies adding compounds/flavourings to food to basically make you want to eat more. While companies do want you to enjoy the food so that you want to eat more, that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.

So, where are the legitimate concerns?

For one, the TOR exception has been about substances that somehow manage to get into food during the process, but are not specifically added to food. This rule change basically allows for companies to specifically know substances are being added. For example, if you didn't read the article: Bags used to store/move grain in large amounts (hundreds of pounds) have coatings so the grain doesn't stick. But during loading/unloading, very very tiny bits of the coating can get into the grain - not enough to exceed 0.5ppb, but enough to be detected, and this may have some negtive health effects. That's not new, that was already happening and this rules change doesn't affect that. But it does mean that basically more things like that might happen.

Also, the 0.5ppb science was established long enough ago that since then, we are figuring out that it may not be safe enough for all things - because longterm chemical exposure even at that tiny level can have effects, and also, some things just can have effects at even that small amount. The good news is that for most everything, that threshhold is sufficient. But the bad news is...... maybe not for everything.

But I think what concerns me more than that actual possible harm here - which is real, but not huge - is the absolute fearmongering of the article. I'm extremely disappointed by that.

This pic of RFK jr looks like some huckster trying to sell you a timeshare.

What is a little brain damage among friends, I guess?

I'm pregnant... yay.... toxic chems for the baby!

just make sure all of it is sent to kennedy's table

What is up with the Guardian and initialisms? "FDA," "TOR," "BASF" and "EDF" are all caps, but "generally recognized as safe" is just "Gras" now? "Maha" instead of "MAHA?" I don't get it.

Why in the fuck are we not banning american goods at this point.

Make America Healthy Again*

*unless it harms corporate profits

Thanks Reagan and Trump!

The US already has a policy that only prohibits ingredients proven to cause harm.

Compare that to the EU where ingredients must be proven safe before being permitted.

It's why most liquid smoke flavorings were recently banned in the EU as they couldn't rule out having a genotoxic effect. In the US they are all available still as far as I know.

USA: Why won't those assholes at the EU allow American food into their market!?

Also USA: Hey, let's allow poisons in our food! I mean at least it's not cancer, right?

US: YOOO COVID VACCINE IS PROBABLY POISON AND NANOBOTS. (half the poors agree)

Also US: YOOO LETS PUT POISON IN THE POOR'S FOOD (and half of the poors celebrate)

Just grind it into a white powder, snort it off a toilet seat, and you're all good.

Yeah but the dyes though...

This is a cull

I can't wait to get back to real America. Back when they used lead to color milk and sometimes when you opened a container it'd just be filled with maggots. Back when thousands of people died every day due to milk contamination alone. Those sure were the days.

I HIGHLY reccomend that anyone in America stop eating prepackaged processed foods entirely. It was already unhealthy but can now be dangerous. Get whole ingredients, wash them, and cook your own food. Go to a local resturant that does the same instead of some fast food place. Want some peanut butter? Buy peanuts and put them in the blender with some canola oil. It takes a few minutes and you know your not eating whatever nurgleite nonsense this idiot is letting them put in your food.

When I read the perchlorate line about it being used in rocket fuel, I thought it was going to be another X is in food but also used in yoga mats, not mentioning it's also in medicines that save millions of lives or something like that. But nope, perchlorate is primarily used for rocket fuel. I'm just so surprised by the non bs use of that kind of sentence that I had to remark on it.

the grapes of wrathine

Must make more money at any and all costs!