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John Gazzini
@gazzini
I love working with people who storm Kellogg's office and demand better ingredients for our kids. Things are trending in the right direction. https://x.com/Holden_Culotta/status/1846249843309924707
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keccers
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Have you seen this bill? https://www.supplysidesj.com/supplement-regulations/bill-would-make-big-change-to-gras-system It’s called the Toxic Free Food Act, and would end the generally recognized as safe loophole. Been really disappointed in the total lack of engagement from RFK, Vani Hari, etc crowd on this — a big step towards the systemic change I thought we were looking for. It’s been depressing me to see.
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John Gazzini
@gazzini
Cool! I hadn't seen this yet. Totally agree that we should disqualify entire categories of chemical substances from GRAS. It's surprising that the FDA would need an entirely new office established for this, as it seems like the stated mission of the new "Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, and Innovation" is exactly what the FDA is supposed to be doing?
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John Gazzini
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This is a hard systems problem, because the extreme solution is to have a blocking FDA review before selling any new substance. This would essentially mean no more new food products, which is bad. On the other hand, if we disqualify bad chemicals (glyphosate) from the GRAS list, then Monsanto & others will just buy glyphosate with minor modifications that make it technically-not-glyphosate-and-actually-possibly-worse, and just trigger an infinite cat-and-mouse game.
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keccers
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The nuances of the plan are worth debating… but my main frustration comes from feeling like a sucker. I believed the Means’ when they said they were non partisan, it’s just that only Fox News would have them on. Now *a sitting congressperson* is putting forth legislation and saying our food is not the same quality as our trading partners and they all refuse to acknowledge her, to applaud her trying and even if it’s imperfect maybe say why the plan falls short :(. I genuinely am here for the cause not the politics. I know they are plugged into Washington now, they have to know. Just a loss of trust moment. The overall media blackout on this sucks, too. The second anyone does anything resembling real and not a dog and pony show it’s a blackout I guess. Just sad John.
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