"[The FDA]…a regulatory system that puts the companies that want to sell you their genetically engineered product in charge of proving its safety. Can no one in charge see the flaw in this logic? This standard doesn’t just apply to genetically engineered food, of course. It’s true for drugs and industrial chemicals as well. Indeed, an entire “product defense” industry* has sprouted up to help corporations publish favorable and, sometimes misleading, science with which to gain government approvals and fend off safety concerns."
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Tom Laskawy
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*Product defense Industry: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/manufacturing-doubt.html
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