An August 14, 2005 article by Mimi Spencer describes endless food scares and quotes ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan:
So, now I'm scared of raisins. Before that, it was Sudan 1, until I discovered that to get anywhere near a dangerous dose I'd have to drink 800 litres of Worcester Sauce. Daily. For two years. So why all the hullabaloo about it? Dr Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, believes that the Food Standards Agency 'orchestrated this scare/scam in a very self-serving, manipulative manner...Critics maintain that the agency's zeal and excessively precautionary warnings represent a PR move to convince consumers that their government food watchdog agency was indeed doing their job -- and watching over their flock of nervous eaters.'