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How was GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) approved by U.S. FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)?

Read the interesting story behind the lies that resulted in the classification of GMO as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) and the use of GMO outside closed laboratories.

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The FDA's records reveal it declared GE foods to be safe in the face of broad disagreement from its own experts

The FDA acknowledges it has been operating under a government policy "to foster" the U.S. biotechnology industry

when in 1991 the FDA created a new position of Deputy Commissioner for Policy to supervise the formulation of its policy on GE foods, it appointed Michael Taylor, a Washington, D.C. lawyer who had been representing Monsanto and other members of the biotech industry on regulatory issues

Violating Federal LawBesides violating basic canons of ethics, the FDA's behavior flagrantly violates the U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which mandates that new food additives be demonstrated safe through testing before they are marketed. While the FDA admits that bioengineered organisms fall under this provision, it claims they are exempt from testing because they are "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS), even though it knows they are not recognized as safe even by its own scientists, let alone by a consensus in the scientific community.