On Jul 29, 5:33*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"JimmyMac" wrote in message

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On Jul 28, 2:25 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
[...]

The FDA determines whether foods are safe or not, not food cranks who
write
for magazines like Prevention.
The FDA sets compliance guidelines limiting the amount of contaminants

in food, but allows a percentage of mold, parasites, rodent hairs,
animal droppings (feces), insect droppings (feces), insect parts,
insect eggs maggots, whole insects, sand and grit, sticks and stones,
and even cigarette butts. *A small percent Ed might counter. *Well,
think again. *A University of Ohio fact study estimates that on
average a person consumes from one to two pounds of insects each year,
without even knowing it.

So much for the FDA and Food, but what about drugs, Ed might say?
Well, Fen Phen, Redux, Seldane, Posicor, Duract, Hismanal, Rezulin,

Propulsid, Lotronex, Raplon, Baycol, and Raxar are the so-called dirty
dozen drugs that the FDA pulled from the market from 1997 to 2001
because they caused a whole bunch of problems, all of which had
lawsuits attached to them. In some cases, these medicines were on the
market for over twenty years, which seems way to long after known
health adverse reactions occurred. Some of these adverse reactions
only took months to get the medicines removed.
[...]

More of the same on and on.

Unlike Ed, I don't state opinions as though they were facts. *Unlike

Ed, I corroborate my statements. *When I argue, I cite facts and I
have cited enough facts above to indicate that Ed's faith in the FDA
is questionable.

I can see you are well underway to becoming a crackpot on food and health
issues. This is a fate that often befalls those who for the first time in
their lives feel threatened by their own mortality. Have fun! It might make
a difference on the margin, but I doubt it.

You are blind to research concerning food and health because you are
too lazy to take the time to become informed and enlightened ...ever
the the choice of the ignorant.

The bottom line is that no one will listen to you because you lack the
necessary credentials. If you ever start proselytizing, you could become
dangerous and a menace to others.

Well NO ... the bottom line is that people are more likely to listen
to someone like myself who cites others with credential than to listen
to someone like yourself who is devoid of credential and who refuses
to avail himself published research states opinion not based on fact
without any attempt to corroborate his errant statements.
Proselytizing I will leave to you. That's your thing, not mine.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota