TV host Dr. Oz and the Federal Drug Administration are set to have a public debate on whether or not there is Arsenic in your child’s apple juice and if how much.
From On Parenting:
“The Dr. Oz Show” plans to today air a segment about arsenic in juice. The premise is that that a study commissioned by the show found significant levels of arsenic in several store brands of apple juice. The show promo makes a case that parents should be “shocked.”
But the Food and Drug Administration has already launched a campaign to counter the show’s assertions. Officials have posted fact sheets about the safety of apple juice to the FDA Facebook page and Web site as well as letters [here and here] that a senior science advisor sent to the show’s producers disputing their analysis.
Check out On Parenting for more details in this brewing debate.
I would not be suprised, they allow a certain percentage of anything in the food any nutritionist will tell you that.
“No one is there in the Congress [now]. There have been essentially one or two days of oversight hearings in 12 years, as opposed to maybe the previous 12 years with dozens and dozens of oversights. So they’re getting away with no congressional oversight” -Director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group since its founding in 1971.
-PBS, Frontline article “How Independent is the FDA”
-https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/prescription/hazard/independent.html
The FDA is a complete joke!! They do not set the standards for what I will put into my body!! That whole organization needs to be dismantled…they allow waaaay more crap into the food supply and justify it b/c no one has gotten sick YET!!!