The Poisons In Your Food That Other Countries Ban

Walk into a grocery store in France, and you won't find half the ingredients common in American processed foods. Not because Europeans are more health-conscious—because their governments banned dozens of additives that the U.S. still allows. Artificial dyes linked to hyperactivity in children. Preservatives classified as possible carcinogens. Chemicals banned for causing organ damage in animal studies. Why does the rest of the developed world consider these ingredients too dangerous to allow, while America puts them in children's cereal? The answer reveals everything wrong with how we regulate food safety.