Summarizing a few of the devilry of food products

Toxic / health issues

Some examples (even though I'm not an expert on the area)

• Packaging
  • Bisphenol A Often used in food packages
  • Phthalates Added to different kinds of plastic products.
  • PFAS
  • More examples: Warning over 175 dangerous chemicals found in food packaging: Substances are linked to cancer, fertility and birth defects
• Food
  • I've seen reports of olive oil where one have replaced the actual olive oil with more or less toxic oils.
  • Mercury in wheat
  • Arsenic in rice
  • Acrylamide in potato chips
  • Saturated fat
• Food additives
  • Modified starch (not toxic but questionable because it is used to make it look like more food than it really is)
  • Nitrate (used to color for example ham pink)
  • Antibiotics in cheese
  • Sugar, (Might be alright in candy, but it appears everywhere)

New substances

A problem is that the industry is often one step ahead of the authorities. When ever the chemical is forbidden the industry just modify the substance it a little bit and go on as usual.

The wiki site could just inform the user how long the manufacturer has been around what trackrecord they have etc. etc.

Non-environmentally-friendly products

See for example: One third of our greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture