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Melanie Benesch

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
81 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Is your chemical also a carcinogen?

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Does this chemical reduce sperm counts?

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

You don't have any of that information.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

And you as a company then can go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

That's a lot of questions.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Come on, FDA.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

I am going to ask you to stop your review, please.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

And I call this the take-backsies provision.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Please stop.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Please stop.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

I no longer want you to review this notice.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

You are going to stop thinking about my chemical.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

And then I can go back and redo it and resubmit it.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Or I can do nothing and then just use it in food anyway.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

It really shows how the law has been flipped on its head and what was meant to be a narrowly applied loophole has completely swallowed the law, such that the loophole is now the law.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Well, I think people are getting sick left, right, and center.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

Okay.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

I mean, the good news is that most of the ingredients being used in our foods probably are safe.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

But I think someone should be checking.

Planet Money
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

I think at the end of the day, someone should be looking under the hood of these companies and someone should be looking at the science.