• nakal@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Is this something like “Na is toxic. Cl is toxic. NaCl is tasty.”?

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        1 year ago

        It’s more things that the US would call “Generally Recognised As Safe” or GRAS. Stuff that was tested in the 70s and written off as fine, in spite of the fact that it does have some negative effects. Typically the effects don’t occur immediately in small doses, only very large doses, however at the time there was no real study done on the effects of continuous low doses over a long period. More recent research has determined that they are in fact harmful in this way.

        However, getting businesses to change is hard, because money, and it sounds like they’ve managed to get the EU to back off. Shame.

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          1 year ago

          Hmm… it is probably not toxic in traditional sense. Otherwise everything can be dangerous, even water.

          Also some people noted that general products are in focus here, not only food. This is a subtle but huge difference.