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Apr 2015
26m 48s

Are Probiotics Bulls--t?

Peach Fish Productions
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Today on The Gist, it's an episode that comes from the gut. First, reporters Erin Quinn and Chris Young of the Center for Public Integrity explain how companies have exploited a decades-old loophole in FDA approval of new food additives. Their article is called "Why the FDA Doesn't Really Know What's in Your Food." And, in another installment of "Is That Bul ... Show More
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