Businesses can add/use any chemical for food and food production until quite some time after it has been proven unsafe. It's no wonder that consumers in EU and elsewhere have grown quite suspicious of industrial 'advances', and that sometimes can lead to unscientific policies.

If businesses would have to prove safety in advance, and be liable for unforeseen damage, that would be much better.

This Guardian article quotes the "food babe". Food babe also had this to say about flying on airplanes "The air that is pumped in isn’t pure oxygen either, it’s mixed with nitrogen, sometimes almost at 50%. To pump a greater amount of oxygen in costs money in terms of fuel and the airlines know this!" (actual nitrogen percentage in air: 78%)

and ... http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-relea...

"Over 41 000 children and adults in the WHO European Region have been infected with measles in the first 6 months of 2018"

versus ~ 400 in the US.

for the downvoters ... https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/good-bad-and-ugly-an...