Here is an immutable fact. Regulated entities will always try to capture their regulators, and they have every incentive to do so. Nobody has much of an incentive to stop them. From Dr. Joseph Mercola at theburningplatform.com:
Story at-a-glance
- The FDA and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) are beholden to industry and put the interests of junk food giants over public health
- WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” but WHO’s expert JECFA committee still says it can be safely consumed
- At least six out of 13 JECFA panel members have ties to ILSI, a longtime Coca-Cola front group
- A symbiotic relationship exists between AND, the AND Foundation and junk food corporations like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills and Kraft
- Trade group American Beverage launched a coordinated campaign to downplay WHO’s aspartame-cancer finding by paying registered dietitians and other health professionals to promote aspartame on social media
Foods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are passed off as the gold-standard or, at the very least, safe. Meanwhile, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), which claims to be “your source for science-based food and nutrition information,”1 is deemed the “authority” on food policy and the development of U.S. dietary guidelines.
