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Cheerios are a drug.

No, really: just ask the FDA. At least, this FDA:

The FDA warned General Mills that it was, in effect, marketing its Cheerios breakfast cereal as a drug, because the cereal’s familiar yellow boxes carry unapproved claims about lowering cholesterol and reducing the risks of heart disease.
(Via the Corner, via Instapundit)

I guess that this is what “‘embarking on an aggressive and proactive approach’ to improve oversight of the U.S. food supply” looks like: an unflinching, resolute crusade against the terrible dangers of breakfast cereal advertising. And they wonder why state governments are putting their own food-safety regulatory systems in place. More money’s nice, but money doesn’t cure dumb.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

COMMENTS

  • JadedByPolitics

    challange to reduce my cholesterol and IT WORKED it was only by 30 points but my doctor was happy and so Cheerios’ are what I eat for dinner everyday!

  • djemi

    the food we eat
    I guess its the water we drink next, you know with all that harmful H2 and O in it

  • Lammo

    about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide – - how it could dissolve stuff and how ingestion of it could be fatal, etc. Absolutely hilarious. One example can be found here: http://www.dhmo.org/