Food additive ingredients have been approved by the food companies themselves

The Food Babe, Vani Hari: "A lot of Americans are under this assumption, that every single food additive ingredient that you buy at the grocery store has been approved by some regulatory body. It hasn't.
It's been approved by the food companies themselves. There's thousands of chemicals where the food company creates it, submits the safety data, and then the FDA rubber stamps it because they don't have any other option. So we're living in a world of the wild, wild west. It wouldn't be that hard to compare the 10,000 ingredients to the what? 400. 400 in Europe and start there, right? Yeah, I love it. So, well apparently this is a one-two punch here, right? Yep."