ABSTRACT
The United States has one of the safest, cleanest food supplies in the world. Its consumers enjoy a vast variety of native and non-native, processed and unprocessed, and natural and non-natural products. This food supply has been significantly increased recently by the use of targeted and increased pesticide use and crops that have been genetically altered to increase or add certain desirable properties. With this increasing use of technology, many questions have arisen regarding how safe these products are for human consumption. This concern has spurred a backlash from the general population against this technology and has driven companies to undertake the manufacturing of products that do not contain chemicals and are not genetically modified.
