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Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2T a year

5 points| PJones2000 | 2 months ago |theguardian.com

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PJones2000|2 months ago

"The health burden from phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides and Pfas “forever chemicals” amounts to up to $2.2tn a year – roughly as much as the profits of the world’s 100 largest publicly listed companies."

That's quite a statement. With medicines, regulations are really strict about allowing new products to market (I've heard the expression "under the FDA's jackboot") but when it comes to the food industry the regulations seem to be far too lax.