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Michael Berthold Instructor: Malcolm Campbell English 1102 20Jan2014 Topic Proposal: Chemicals in Food Introduction/Overview I will be examining the positi es and negati es o! a ariet" o! chemicals in human !ood# $n the bac% o! an" !ood label is its nutritional !acts& and towards the bottom o! the list is all the !oods ingredients# 'ood toda" are lasting longer and sta"ing !resher because o! a certain amount o! chemicals that are added to the !ood# (ome o! these chemicals consist o! )otassium (orbet& *spartame& and Monosodium +lutamine# ,ould "ou eat cereal i! "ou %now it had But"lated -"drox"toluene& which is an additi e in .et !uel& or /ellow 01& which is& deri ed !orm coal tar and contains up to 10ppm o! lead and arsenic# 2hese are some o! the additi e !ound it toda"s !ood# But"lated -"drox"toluene although an additi e in .et !uel is also used in !ood to pre ent oxidation# /ellow 01 is commonl" used in so!t drin%s to chance its appearance# Chemicals were not alwa"s pre alent in !ood# *!ter ,orld ,ar 2 when women started wor%ing !ull time .obs& !ood companies where under the impression that women were not going to ha e enough time to coo%& so the rush !or a process that could ma%e !ood last longer was then sought a!ter# In order to gather in!ormation !or m" topic I researched online# *nother source !or gather in!ormation was a mo ie I recentl" saw called called Fat Sick and Nearly Dead# In this mo ie a middle3aged gentlemen tra el the 4nited (tates# 5uring his tra el he tal%ed about all o!

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his ailments& which he contributed to processed !ood 6!oods with chemicals in it7# *s he tra eled the 4#(# he tried to change his diet to one based purel" on !ruits and egetable with no +#M#$# 6+eneticall" Modi!ied $rganism7# 2his .ourne" went on !or a while and as he slowl" adapted to his new li!e st"le& most o! his ailments disappeared# I also used m" !riend who is a nutritionist to get more o! a direction I should go on& and areas that I should !ocus on# 2his topic is contro ersial# *lthough some o! the chemicals that are added to !oods are also lin%ed to being carcinogens 6ma" cause cancer7 the 'ood and 5rug *dministration and others belie e that the amount "ou are ingesting o! the chemical is not enough to harm a person# $ne the other side o! the isle& others are being s%eptical o! this anal"sis because although the 'ood and 5rug *dministration belie es the chemical dosage is not enough to harm a person& "ou are still ingesting a chemical that ma" be lin%ed to cancer#

Initial Inquiry Question(s) Is there a clear lin% between !ood additi es and cancer8disease ,hat is the process to determine how much o! a chemical can be in !ood I! there is a lin% between !ood additi es and cancer8diseases wh" are the" still being allowed *re there e er hidden chemicals !ood companies tr" to hide !rom the consumer b" not putting on the nutritional guide9 -ow o!ten does the '5* loo% into !ood additi es

y Interest in this Topic I am interested in this topic because I loo% around and all I see is ad ertisement !or processed !oods& and a rise o! unhealth" people# 2his topic made me interested to see i! there was a lin% between the chemicals in !ood and the rise o! illness among indi iduals# 2here are so man" ideos and mo ies about how unhealth" !ood had become& and "et the '5* still allows all these chemicals# I wanted to research i! the '5* claims were true& that although there are

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unhealth" chemicals in !oods& the amount is not enough to harm a person# I %now a little about nutrition and I o!ten read !ood ingredient be!ore I eat them to a oid certain chemicals# I hope to !urther m" understanding o! the chemicals !ood companies use and the harm that the" can or can;t ha e on the human bod"# !e"t #teps In order to get m" research I will be reading a erit" o! health and nutritional maga<ines# I will also isit the '#5#*# website to see i! the" ha e an" in!ormation pertaining to the guidelines the" used to determine the e!!ects o! !ood additi es# I will also be inter iewing a !riend o! mind who is a nutritionist to see i! the" ha e an" incite into the e!!ects o! certain chemicals in !oods# $ne o! the main web sites I will be using is called =(a e our Bones> I li%e this website because it has a wide description o! !ood additi es& and states what the e!!ects o! the additi es are and the industrial uses o! them#

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