There is a lot of testing available, that would be very good to have the results for, especially in our food.
Heavy metals are easy. A little more expensive are the organic compounds: think herbicides, fungicides, insecticides.
There is no agency that monitors those ingredients in food, not even in baby food.
Fresh strawberries in January in central Canada are awesome, but at what cost, to long term health? No one knows.
There is sadly, no agency that over sees that for consumers.
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It would be so nice if the FDA and/or USDA was a bit more powerful and competent.
Especially when non-invasive screening of food products for lead (& other heavy metals) sounds very easy to do at scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_fluorescence#Usage
There is a lot of testing available, that would be very good to have the results for, especially in our food. Heavy metals are easy. A little more expensive are the organic compounds: think herbicides, fungicides, insecticides. There is no agency that monitors those ingredients in food, not even in baby food. Fresh strawberries in January in central Canada are awesome, but at what cost, to long term health? No one knows. There is sadly, no agency that over sees that for consumers.
Would like to point out the non-profit organization mentioned in the article that bought this to light: As You Sow
I had never heard of them before until reading this article, they seem like a good organization to donate to.