Funds for these promotional steps, and agencies to carry them out, must be institutionalized to speed up the process of adoption. The last two decades have demonstrated that toxins of many types exist in a wide variety of foods. Each one involves a social management component of a different kind, which makes a general solution that much more difficult. Of course there is a cost attached to centralized detoxification of such materials, but surely this cannot be balanced against the health of the people. In the long term the only solution is preventive action in the field and during storage, for which measures must be instituted.
Scientists have a social duty to perform.
They must step down from their laboratories to proffer information and advice at all levels. Perhaps this is best left to older scientists, since the bench work must go on, and this can only be done by the younger scientific community. Becoming a crusading scientist at too young an age will spell the death of science itself. But the elder scientist has a duty to educate and inform which he must not evade. Achieving better nutrition If diets were to be well balanced using natural foodstuffs, fortification would be unnecessary.