READ THE LABEL — EPISODE 3 OF 4

Share your thoughts Food Additives: Banned There, Allowed Here Same chemical, same evidence, opposite verdicts — and the global safety vote that passed sixty-nine to sixty-seven. The same additive is illegal in one country and perfectly legal in another. Not because one set of scientists found harm and the other did not — but because the two are answering different questions. This week Ashok and Meera open the case files: potassium bromate, banned across the EU, UK, Canada, Brazil, China and India and still legal in the United States; titanium dioxide, the bright white in icing, banned in the EU in 2022 and permitted in the US; the nitrites in cured meat, the one genuinely settled item on the tour. Plus a deliberate act of fairness — the exoneration of MSG, the most feared additive of the last half century that turned out to be among the safest. And then the moment the whole series has been walking towards: July 2012, when Codex could not reach consensus on a growth drug in the world’s meat, and so it voted. Sixty-nine to sixty-seven. Seven abstentions. That is how the global definition of “safe” was settled. Based on Ashok’s essay “Trust but Read the Label”: https://ashokv.substack.com/p/trust-but-read-the-label Thanks for tuning in to "Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy"! Hosted by Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Stay Connected #PayTheFarmerNotThePharmacy #PlantBasedWellness #NaturalFood #AffordableWellness #GutHealth #ImmunityBoost #NutritionTips #CSAW (Centre for the Spread of Affordable Wellness) #Meeravasudevan #Ashokvasudevan https://umaglobalfoods.com/ https://csaw.co https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/pay-the-farmer-not-the-pharmacy/id1512934794 https://open.spotify.com/show/34nzNQQ62O8tygMaut2h8V