Adopted in 1958, the exemption from fat was intended to cover the use of current ingredients, explains Jensen Jose, regulatory lawyer for the Watchdog Center for Science in the public, based in Washington, DC. “It was so that you don’t make a new legislative piece every time you sail to a sandwich.”

However, as the appetite of the food industry for addresses increased in the following decades, the fat rule came to cover an enlargement of ingredients – with the manufacturers of these addres which have been effectively allowed to govern. “Hope is that they are putting their own scientific studies,” said Jennifer Pomeranz, a lawyer in public health and associate professor at the School of Global Public Health Health from New York University. “But legally speaking, no one checks.” In theory, Pomeranz says: “A company can a new ingredient and not even its chemical compound on the package.”

The result is that a multitude of addres, recognition as safe under FDA regulations, are prohibited by other governments on security fears. “The compounds are helped to food for the conservation time, aesthetics and convenience,” explains Lindsay Malone, to record nutritionist and dietitian instructor in the nutrition department at the Western University Western Medicine School. “Even until the ease with which food comes out of the plastic container.”

Compounds that include health risks line the shelves of American grocery stores, consumed by Americanum every day. Take the Hydroxytilane Butylé (BHT), for example, a conservative who was linked Hormonal disturbance. It is often found in cereals, dried snacks and mixtures of wrapped cakes. Meanwhile, a chewing gum, crust or meat. Both are exempt from the FDA regulations through the fatty flaw.

Insolement, compounds like BHT, Bha and Moah are necessary dangerous. Public health defenders are more concerned with the cumulative effect – a lifespan to eat common, assico and harmful compounds. Malone says that a diet strongly composed of ultra -processed foods – I am likely to contain addres – can Impact Intestinal health. A disturbed microbiome is supposed to cause inclined intestinal permeability (also known as “fleeing intestine”), a condition proposed although not from establishment where Pathogen and toxins It is believed that leaking in the bloodstream.

In the United States, there has been a certain regulatory impulse in the United States. In Janogy, the FDA noted a national prohibition on Red 3, the petroleum food coloring which becomes Scarlet candies – the statues of the 80s and 1990s have shown that it could Cancer causes in laboratory rats. In 2024, he also prohibited brommed vegetable oil (BVO), a stabilizer for artificial flavors which can cause toxicity of bromine, prohibited by the United Kingdom in 1970.

The FDA did not immediately respond to the requests for comments from Wired.

However, the two accounts were prohibited for the first time by California, in 2023 – Jose says that it is more effective to ban compounds through states legislatures thanks to the FDA. “We have made California present Bill, adopt it, sign a law and are prohibited before the FDA even responds to our petition in 2022. If a company cannot sell something in California or New York, it can also reformulate its product for the whole country.”