ABSTRACT
There have been major changes in our food supply over the last 25 to 30 years. The cardiologists and the public health epidemiologists have convinced us that a meat and potatoes diet isn't the ideal diet to assure longevity. As a result of that there have been major changes in food consumption. Epidemiologist now have to try to understand the international food supply system. Many types of fresh food that was supplied by domestic growers have been displaced within the last 10 or 15 year because of cheaper foreign sources. The FDA have no jurisdiction outside the United States on food. Even when they were able to go to Japan with this L-tryptophane issue, because it was considered a food additive, they had no legal authority to even look at any of the plants in which it was produced. A lot of countries look to the FDA for leadership and support.
