Why Does the FDA Say That Americans Don't Have the Right to Know Which Foods Are GENETICALLY MODIFIED?

Question

The FDA declared GE foods to be safe in the face of broad disagreement from its own experts -- all the while claiming an overwhelming scientific consensus supported its stance.

Evidence shows the agency flagrantly violates the U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which mandates that new food additives be demonstrated safe through testing before they are marketed. While the FDA admits that bioengineered organisms fall under this provision, it claims they are exempt from testing because they are "generally recognized as safe", even though their own scientists disagree.

Every genetically engineered food in the U.S. is on the market illegally and should be recalled for rigorous safety testing. The FDA has deliberately unleashed a host of potentially harmful foods onto American dinner tables in blatant violation of U.S. law. AND YOU DONT GET TO KNOW WHICH FOODS THEY ARE.

Answer 1

Because the FDA like just about every office in our government is top heavy with paper work and under maned. Another shinning example of the right hand not knowing or caring what the left hand is doing. And they wonder why Americans are growing larger? Has anyone stopped to think that the same things that make cows, pigs and chickens more meatier (bigger) might effect the population the same way? Do they think that stuff just magically disappears when the animal is cut into pieces of meat we buy in the grocery store? Hmmmmm

Answer 2

It could get worse. The FDA is also trying to regulate the vitamin and supplement industry. If they do, we are all in trouble. That would mean they could take the simplest vitamin (like vitamin C) and take it off the market or make it prescription (then you'd pay thru the nose for it).

Answer 3

Because like many Administrators appointed by Bush they could careless less about everyday people...its all about your corporate friends in high places..that's what you get with a republican administration.
From the EPA to the FDA.