Consumers should be put in the dark about what’s in their food.  They have the right to know how their food is being made, where it’s being made and also what’s put into our food that we so blindly consume.  According to a FDA “Trade Secret”  article that I read, companies are not allowed to be forced to reveal trade secret ingredients and that basically means anything they consider their secret ingredient they can hide it from us.  Although according to the article you can send a trade secret request to the FDA and they will review it within 180 days.  They also noted that just because you make a request it does not meant that it will receive a final answer within that time span or an answer at all.  My idea behind using this source was to tie it to my question of why the FDA allows hidden ingredients to be put into our food when the consumer has no idea about what they are eating and aren't allowed to see the ingredients on food labels.


Source: https://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/Labeling/ucm414211.htm