> The complete lack of food safety regulations and/or enforcement.
There have been some major recalls due to food safety in the last 5-10 years(1).
In the last 5 years, the Food Safety Modernization Act was passed (2).
In the last 5 years, the "Egg Rule" was passed (3). "Over 15 months, FDA inspectors visited about 600 facilities nationwide that produce about 80 percent of the country's eggs to determine if they are in compliance with the Rule, which went into effect in July, 2010."
You can also find thousands of warning letters the FDA has written to companies over the last decade on their website (4).
I searched through the warning letters for "supplements" and found exactly 500. (5) The letters were issued for all kinds of reasons, from outrageous claims, to products not containing the advertised chemicals. (6)
I'm not going to argue the other points you list, but when it comes to the FDA, your assessment of "completely lacking in regulations and/or enforcement" was overreaching.
There have been some major recalls due to food safety in the last 5-10 years(1).
In the last 5 years, the Food Safety Modernization Act was passed (2).
In the last 5 years, the "Egg Rule" was passed (3). "Over 15 months, FDA inspectors visited about 600 facilities nationwide that produce about 80 percent of the country's eggs to determine if they are in compliance with the Rule, which went into effect in July, 2010."
You can also find thousands of warning letters the FDA has written to companies over the last decade on their website (4).
I searched through the warning letters for "supplements" and found exactly 500. (5) The letters were issued for all kinds of reasons, from outrageous claims, to products not containing the advertised chemicals. (6)
I'm not going to argue the other points you list, but when it comes to the FDA, your assessment of "completely lacking in regulations and/or enforcement" was overreaching.
(1) http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0512/the-5-larges...
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_A...
(3) http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments...
(4) http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/
(5) http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/warningletters/wlSearc...
(6) http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/2...