Flashback Friday: Which Intestines for Food and Cosmetics?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 10/09/2021

The FDA appears to have caved to industry pressure and allows intestines potentially infected with mad cow disease prions into food products and lipstick.

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Unfortunately, this is not the first time the FDA has caved to industry pressures. See, for example:
• Artificial Food Colors and ADHD (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/artificial-food-colors-and-adhd/)
• Antibiotics: Agribusinesses’ Pound of Flesh (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/antibiotics-agribusinesses-pound-of-flesh/)
• Aspartame and the Brain (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspartame-and-the-brain/)
• BPA on Receipts: Getting Under Our Skin (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/bpa-on-receipts-getting-under-our-skin/)

As scary as rare infections like mad cow disease are, we are much more likely to be disabled or killed by more conventional foodborne pathogens, such as bacteria. Check out:
• C. difficile Superbugs in Meat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/c-difficile-superbugs-in-meat/)
• MRSA in U.S. Retail Meat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/mrsa-in-u-s-retail-meat/)
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/)

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