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this right here is what's known as an
ingredients label it's legally required
to be printed on the packaging of food
items and if you happen to be one of
those people who stands in the aisles of
the supermarket looking for the names of
ingredients that you can't pronounce and
therefore you don't want to ingest into
your body well then you've most likely
come across the names of several
ingredients that perhaps unbeknownst to
you are actually made using
nanotechnology specifically they are
made through a process which converts
things like silver copper gold aluminum
silicon carbon as well as different
metal oxides into tiny tiny tiny
atom-sized particles that are quite
literally one billionth of a meter in
size if you want a visual for how small
that is up on screen is a graph from the
national Center for electron microscopy
and it shows you how a strand of DNA
which is about two nanometers in
diameter is about a thousand times
smaller than a bacteria organism and
about a million times smaller than a
raindrop so that is to say these
nanoparticles in our food are very very
small now some of the more common Nano
size ingredients that you might be able
to find in your cupboard right now if
you were to look include things like
titanium dioxide which is used to
increase the whiteness of things like
milk yogurt and sugar you might find
silicon oxide which is added as an
anti-caking agent you might find iron
and zinc dioxides which are added to
increase supposed nutritional value you
might find different silver derivatives
which are added for sterilizing
properties and you might find a host of
other ingredients like calcium carbonate
tricalcium phosphates and so on and so
forth the list is rather long however
before we move on in order to really set
the stage for you properly here let me
back up for a quick moment and actually
explain to you what this is all about
starting back in the 1990s so about 34
years ago nanotechnology became widely
used in the production of food products
that's because scientists discovered
that by adding these tiny little
components they were able to make our
food more colorful they were able to
make a brighter creamier crunchier and
they were even able to keep it fresher
for longer and besides just adding it to
the food itself we'll some manufacturers
have also added these nanoparticles to
the food packaging as just one example
up on screen you can see a milk carton
which utilizes nanotechnology to act
essentially as an indicator of the
freshness of the milk that's inside and
as you can see the color of the Box
actually changes to coincide with the
change of the food that's inside
furthermore different researchers also
found that adding these nano-sized
additives to some medicines made them
more effective however according to more
and more consumer protection groups as
well as different Health experts well
there appears to be a catch which is
that while these nanoparticles can
provide a myriad of benefits they might
come at a price and that price is our
health because you see these particles
are so small so tiny that studies like
this one here that you can see up on
screen for yourself show that they can
actually breach the blood brain barrier
and the ironic part is that the
researchers in that study they were
actually looking into this function of
nanoparticles in order to treat
neurological diseases because in order
to treat them they actually need
medication that can breach the
blood-brain barrier but when it comes to
food for instance when it comes to your
breakfast cereal that is not a feature
of the ingredients that anyone is
looking for furthermore besides
breaching the blood-brain barrier other
Studies have shown that these particles
are also able to circulate throughout
the body to get into and get absorbed by
the bloodstream and different organs
they have the potential to penetrate our
cell walls and then they might also at
least potentially create inflammation
and disease here is for instance what Dr
George pierogiotakis who is a a
researcher with the Harvard school for
public health here's what he said
regarding this matter quote they may
pass through the lining of the gut and
enter the bloodstream which may trigger
an inflammatory or immune response they
may also build up in various parts of
the body including the lungs the heart
and reproductive organs likewise Dr Rolf
Halden who is the director of the center
for environmental health engineering
over at Arizona State University he was
quoted in a recent article as saying
this quote we really don't know what the
impact of these particles is human
exposure is increasing and we lag the
tools to even measure what is arriving
in our bodies where it is deposited and
what it does there then he actually went
on to compare this unknown impact of
nanoparticles to asbestos quote as
pestos itself is relatively benign it's
an inorganic material what makes it
toxic and makes it kill 90 000 people a
year is that it has particles that
lodges in human tissue furthermore there
was a study published in July of 2020 by
researchers over at the University of
Massachusetts and Amherst and in the
study they were specifically researching
the effects of titanium dioxide which is
one of the most well-known additives
it's kindly added to things like gum
candy drinks milk desserts and so on and
what these researchers did was that they
gave titanium dioxide to two different
groups of mice and in order to isolate
the effects specifically to this
nanoparticle one group of mice was fed a
low-fat diet and the other group was fed
a high fat diet and what wound up
happening was that both groups
experience changes in their gut bacteria
including the inflammation of their
colons which can lead to abdominal pain
and even diarrhea and although both sets
of mice experiences inflammation the
obese mice that were fed the higher fat
diet they had more pronounced symptoms
now you might look at the study and you
might say hey Roman that's great but if
these nanoparticles have been used in
food production since the 1990s and they
are found in over quite literally two
thousand different food items then why
are you citing studies on mice what
about studies on humans one well that's
the million dollar question because
looking at the situation you would
assume that surely the US government
wouldn't haphazardly allow food
companies to introduce these new
ingredients into the products that we
buy on our store shelves without
undergoing rigorous testing and
authorization and if you think that well
you would only be half right because as
it turns out the FDA which is of course
the agency that's tasked with overseeing
these additives they are themselves
trying their best to keep up with this
new and evolving technology and they're
essentially playing a balancing game
between the potential benefits while
mitigating the risks that these
nanoparticles actually cause and as it
currently stands the FDA recognizes
nanoparticles within food with a
designation called grass which stands
for generally recognize the safe as long
as the manufacturer is already using the
same ingredient in its larger form well
they can use it in its nanoparticle form
meaning that if let's say a Serial
manufacturer is for instance using
titanium dioxide as an additive in their
cereal well then they can also use
titanium dioxide nanoparticles in their
cereal as well and the FDA will label
that material as being grass here's
specifically what a guidance document
from the FDA said in this matter and
just for your reference this document
was released all the way back in 2007
quote the fda's nanotechnology task
force concluded that the agency's
authorities are generally comprehensive
for products subject to pre-market
authorization requirements such as drugs
biological products devices and food and
color additives and that these
authorities give the FDA the ability to
obtain detailed scientific information
needed to review the safety and as
appropriate the effectiveness of the
products for products not subject to
pre-market authorization requirements
such as dietary supplements cosmetics
and food ingredients that are generally
recognized as safe otherwise known as
grass manufacturers are generally not
required to submit data to the FDA prior
to marketing and the agency's oversight
capacity is less comprehensive meaning
again that the fda's requirement for
reviewing and confirming the safety and
efficacy of nanotechnology ingredients
only applies to a certain subset of food
related products and so if something is
already recognized as being generally
safe then the nanoparticle derivative of
that same substance is also generally
assumed to be safe now this story
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and so if something is already
recognized as being generally safe then
the nanoparticle derivative of that same
substance is also generally assumed to
be safe however the reason that this is
so troubling is quite frankly rather
obvious given the fact that the sole
purpose of using these nanotechnologies
is because it's known that certain
substances behave radically different at
the Nano level than they do at the much
larger levels and so for the FDA to
admit that ingredients that have
previously received the grass label are
exempt from screening is concerning to
say the least because if they're not
going to look into the safety and the
potential dangers of ingesting these
nanoparticles well then who will
and the answer appears to be the
manufacturers themselves because further
down in this document from the FDA
specifically on page 33 there's a
subsection titled quote products not
subject to pre-market authorization and
in that subsection it says this quote
however manufacturers are still
responsible for ensuring that the
products they Market are safe for
example cosmetic manufacturers are
required to ensure the safety of their
products but are not required to provide
safety data to the FDA in light of the
evolving state of the science the task
force believes an appropriate course of
action at this time would be for the
agency to work with manufacturers of
these products and assist them in
identifying data to substantiate the
safety of products containing nanoscale
materials including chronic toxicity and
other long-term toxicity data as
appropriate and so you see the FDA
appears to recognize the potential
dangers of these nanoparticles but then
they go on to suggest that it is still
the manufacturer's own responsibility to
ensure that their products are safe and
so what the fda's plan appears to be at
least according to their own guidance
documents is to establish some sort of
ad hoc relationships with the different
product manufacturers in order to pull
together the right data to demonstrate
product safety which appears to rely
heavily on the good nature of these
different companies to be responsible
which is actually evidenced further in
another document that the FDA released
back in 2018 called quote the fda's
approach to regulation of nanotechnology
products and in that document there is a
subsection which reads this quote where
statutory Authority does not provide for
pre-market review consultation is
encouraged to reduce the risk of
unintended harm to human or Animal
Health in these cases FDA relies on
publicly available or voluntarily
submitted information adverse event
reporting where applicable and on
post-market surveillance activities to
provide oversight where nanotechnology
applications are involved the FDA Inc
encourages manufacturers to consult with
the agency before taking their products
to Market such consultation can help the
FDA to advise companies review safety
information and design any necessary
post marketing safety oversight now
again I am generally the type of person
that gives the benefit of the doubt to
most people however it's hard not to
make the comparison that this appears to
be a case of having the fox guard the
hen house when the FDA basically is
relying on the good nature of profit
driven food companies to use this new
technology which fundamentally Alters
the state of food items with no
long-term health studies to support its
use furthermore one of the main reasons
that you likely don't know about these
nanoparticle ingredients is because of
the fact that the fda's guidance
explicitly states that companies do not
have to place nanotechnology ingredients
on the labels of their food products
here's specifically what it says in this
guidance document again that came from
the FDA in 2007 quote because the
current science does not support a
finding that classes of products with
nanoscale materials necessarily present
greater safety concerns than classes of
products without nanoscale materials the
FDA nanotechnology task force does not
believe there is a basis for saying that
as a general matter a product containing
nanoscale materials must be labeled as
such therefore the task force is now
recommending that the agency requires
such labeling at this time instead the
task force recommends that the agency
take the following action address on a
case-by-case basis whether labeling must
or may contain information on the use of
nanoscale materials
that is quite frankly rather cool the
recommendation is that since the science
doesn't suggest that these food products
with nanotech present a greater safety
risk well then they don't need a label
even though that same science has no
long-term studies on the impacts of such
nanotech and so we as the consumers are
quite frankly just left in the dark
which is by the way not even the first
time that such a thing has happened in
recent memory for instance it took the
USDA quite literally over six full years
in order to finally give in and force
food companies to label their products
if they are genetically modified and
that came quite literally after years of
public outcry however at this moment
well most people don't even know about
this nanotech food technology and so
there is no real public outcry at least
not here in America
regardless if you head on over right now
to the fda's website and then you go on
over to the specific subsection on
nanotechnology programs you will find
that after 2007 it took another 13 years
for the task force to release another
report which came out in the year 2020.
and in that report there is a chart
showing that the number of products
using nanotechnology submitted to the
FDA for approval has increased
dramatically over the past 10 and 20
years now of course not all of that is
food it also includes things like
Cosmetics medicines as well as vaccines
which we'll get to in a moment however
in regards to food while the exact
number is not exactly known experts in
this field estimate that somewhere
between 1900 and 2500 food products are
currently on the market using this
nanotechnology and this has created kind
of an interesting juxtaposition between
America and some other countries in the
world because despite the fact that
there is scant research on the long-term
effects of ingesting nanoparticles well
as we mentioned earlier the FDA does not
require any food items produced with
nanoparticles to be labeled as such and
instead the guidelines that they do have
recommend oversight on a case-by-case
basis however other nations are not as
open-minded you can say as the FDA in
fact many countries have taken steps to
either limit or outright ban either all
or some nanotechnology in their nation's
food for instance in the year 2010
Canada moved to ban the use of all
nanotechnology in their organic food
production then in 2011 the European
Union began requiring that all food to
be labeled if it contains engineered
Nano materials and then going even
further in 2015 the EU began to require
additional testing to ensure proper
health safety then in the year 2020
France which is of course a member of
the EU they went a step further and they
outright banned any foods containing
titanium dioxide in the summer of 2022
you all of the EU will actually join
France and no longer allow titanium
dioxide their reasoning stems from a
quote potential concern over
accumulation of titanium dioxide
particles in the body and possible
genotoxicity genotoxicity is the ability
for a substance to damage DNA which may
lead to cancer meaning that if you want
that sweet sweet titanium dioxide well
you'll have to come all the way here to
the U.S to get it and for your reference
titanium dioxide gives the food a nice
white color and so you can find it in
things like milk coffee creamer
toothpaste cakes pastries and so on now
again I'm not saying that it's actually
harmful or I'm not saying that it's
actually safe but at this moment it's
not 100 known either way however what is
known is that the FDA currently allows
these nanoparticles to be included in
our food items without requiring the
actual manufacturing companies
themselves to place them on the
ingredients label so take it out for
what you will but the big question
remains what are the long-term effects
of these nanoparticles and given the
fact that they have been shown to be
capable of crossing the blood brain
barrier shouldn't their effects be
mapped out over a long-term scale before
they're injected into people or even
even more pertinently into our food
because although at this moment these
scientific consensus states that these
nanoparticles are safe and that they're
nothing to worry about well I believe
it's worth reminding you that at one
time not so long ago lead was used in
gasoline asbestos was used as a building
material and twenty thousand doctors
said that Lucky Strike cigarettes were
better than the Alternatives now I'm not
directly comparing nanotech and food to
things like lead and asbestos but at the
very least I think that we as Americans
have a right to know what's in our food
as well as what's in the shots that are
mandatory for some of us to take if
you'd like to go deeper into any of the
research that we discussed in today's
episode I'll throw all those links down
into the description box below this
video for you to check out and also I'd
like to give a big shout out to Mr Eric
Schumacher who is one of the researchers
here for facts matter and he helped to
pull together and make sense of all
these different links and research and
then lastly if you got something out of
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until next time I'm your host Roman from
The Epic Times stay informed and most
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