Is Fast Food the New Tobacco?
In 1906, the Food and Drug Administration was established by the United States’ federal government (“A Brief History of the FDA,” n.d.). The purpose of this branch of the United States Department of Agriculture is to regulate the products that we consume, specifically food that we eat (Office of the Commissioner, 2022). They enforce inspections in the places that make the products that we consume and have even introduced the nutrition label one may see on the produce they buy. (Office of the Commissioner, 2022) (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 2022). The whole premise of the nutrition label is to clearly tell the consumer what exactly they are putting into their bodies (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 2022). This includes sugars, fats, sodium, and all the other factors that come with eating certain foods (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 2022). The Food and Drug Administration have made it essential that this is based on “scientifi