Sarah Gonzalez

You, the company, can say, hi, I self-certify that this is generally regarded as safe, and then you're good to go.

Yeah, Bill says companies should be doing like actual comprehensive safety studies, right?

But this is the problem with the grass and secret grass loopholes, right?

When you have an honor system, maybe the incentives aren't there.

to do real rigorous research.

If no one has to submit their safety studies to anyone, then, I mean, do you really even have to do them?

In the case of terra flower, it wasn't necessarily the company who made the terra flower in Peru that had to prove its safety.

It was the U.S.

food importer, Smirks.

Bill says they blew it.

They didn't do what they needed to do to make sure this new secret ingredient was safe.

And there was not a lot of accountability here.

What happened to Daily Harvest?

Are they still around selling food?

Okay.

Did they have a consequence?

So the FDA doesn't... Like, surely they say something like, from here on out, do some better tests.

Nothing?

Well, the FDA did ban terra flower, which was a big deal, even though they never outright announced that the terra flower itself caused the gallbladder and liver issues.

Daily Harvest has said that the problem was the terra flower and their insurance ended up paying up.