Even water is toxic if you have too much, but without water you will die.
This is how the FDA proves things are toxic. They give massive amounts of a substance, far beyond reasonable doses, and give them for months, and then eventually the rats develop health problems. This is a simple trick used to ban all substances they want banned. It works even with water, so always be skeptical of lab tests unless you know the test, how it was done, and you know it was done properly.
For example, if you inject rats with a stream of pure water, and you use enough water, the rats will eventually die. This test proves that water is toxic! Such tests can prove anything is toxic.
All things you can ingest have a lethal dosage level. There is no exception to this as far as I am aware. Even vitamin C, as healthy as it is, has a lethal dosage level. If the FDA wants vitamin C banned, all they need to do is show how toxic it is by feeding rats super overdoses of the vitamin and they will all eventually die. Fortunately though, such a test will be bring about massive protests because way too many people like vitamin C, and a ton of tests already exist showing it’s benefits when used in proper doses, so the FDA will cause a serious fight with many large companies if they did that. But their tests would be enough to ban it. The people would have to fight to get the ban lifted.
The FDA could also ban chocolate based on studies done on dogs. Chocolate, even in normal doses, can be fatal for dogs. But imagine the public outrage they would cause if they did that! Anything that has a certain level of popularity is very difficult to ban, and chocolate is one such thing. Tobacco is obviously bad for you, and the FDA still cannot ban it. If they did, the public outrage would be huge, not to mention the companies that back tobacco have a ton of money and certain people at the FDA might suddenly disappear, if you get my drift. High profits are unfortunately often accompanied by high corruption.
My point is that most of the animal based toxicity studies done need to be looked at with a magnifying glass. You need to read the fine print. You need to know exactly how the tests were done. You need to know how it applies to humans if at all. A good example of this is asarone, which causes cancer in rats (because of their unique digestive system), but apparently not in humans in reasonable amounts, but it is still banned as a carcinogen. The reason for the ban is likely because it can be used to make XTC. Tobacco is far more carcinogenic, and proven so in humans, and yet it is not banned. This really makes you think just what the FDA really does. They don’t seem interested in really protecting people.
In many cases, the corporations with the largest amount of cash flow are the ones that the FDA backs, and the smaller corporations get pushed around by the FDA. A good example of this: stevia was banned as a food additive for many years until the Coca Cola company wanted it approved. They got it approved easily, while others tried and failed. Obviously dirty money was passed around, more than the makers of NutriSweet or Splenda could offer to keep stevia banned, and someone at the FDA got rich from this move. This is how the FDA works. I’ve watched them operated for many years. They are pretty corrupt. Anyone who doubts they are can simply do a search on Google and find thousands of cases of corruption within the FDA. The FDA responds to MONEY. If I wanted to get stevia approved, the makers of NutriSweet or Splenda would pay the FDA dirty money not to approve it. Being the owner of Coca Cola, the FDA will not only approve it but will also treat me like a movie star. I will get the red carpet treatment form the FDA. It’s all about money. The FDA needs to be shut down.
