{"id":248700,"date":"2024-04-11T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/fda-says-we-are-all-made-of-chemicals-so-how-can-any-be-bad-for-you\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T21:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:58:59","slug":"fda-says-we-are-all-made-of-chemicals-so-how-can-any-be-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/fda-says-we-are-all-made-of-chemicals-so-how-can-any-be-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Says We Are All Made of Chemicals So How Can Any Be Bad For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>By Maria Doa, PhD, Senior Director, Chemicals Policy, Maricel Maffini, PhD, Consultant, and Liora Fiksel, Project Manager, Healthy Communities<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What happened<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You may have seen news or online content from FDA about chemicals in our foods, including that our food \u2013 and everything else in the world \u2013 is made up of chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>FDA\u2019s online content also characterizes toxic chemicals such as lead and mercury simply as naturally occurring or naturally present in our environment. It further fails to distinguish the most harmful chemicals by asserting that for <strong>all chemicals,<\/strong> it is the amount of the chemical that matters when determining their harm.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why it matters<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It is true that everything, including our food, is made up of chemicals. However, that does not mean that we should treat all chemicals equally.<\/p>\n<p>Highly toxic chemicals such as lead, mercury, PFAS, TCE, methylene&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2024\/04\/11\/fda-says-we-are-all-made-of-chemicals-so-how-can-any-be-bad-for-you\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fda-says-we-are-all-made-of-chemicals-so-how-can-any-be-bad-for-you\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at blogs.edf.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Doa, PhD, Senior Director, Chemicals Policy, Maricel Maffini, PhD, Consultant, and Liora Fiksel, Project Manager, Healthy Communities \u00a0 What happened You may have seen news or online content from FDA about chemicals in our foods, including that our food \u2013 and everything else in the world \u2013 is made up of chemicals. 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