http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/11944-banned-foods.html

This article talks about foods that are served and sold in the U.S. but are actually banned in other countries; it mainly presents foods that are genetically modified or have some sort of processed ingredient that is potentially dangerous for human consumption. Some of these include rBGH, an artificial growth hormone for cows, flame retardant beverages, and farm-raised salmon. Very few of them have to do with an actual cultural issue rather than the potential for ill-side effects to occur to humans. I've thought an interesting way of being able to change our food system is by taking note of other countries and think, "the people living here are much healthier and have less health problems, what is it that they're doing and we're not, and is what they're doing able to work for us?" Obviously changing food systems involves both making things better and taking what's bad or not good out. If other countries are banning certain drugs or ingredients from being used, why are we not thinking that there may be something severely wrong with the things we're using, and is it ok to be selling this stuff to the nation's people? I feel that government can be more involved with what's being used in our food. Should it be? That's mostly up to the consumers to decide.
Banning certain ingredients in our food will likely lead to a few things, either food being less available or more expensive. From what I've seen though, many of the food on the shelves ends up going to waste, and people are willing to spend a little extra to go organic. There are poorer areas where food is harder to afford, but I feel that is a different issue on its own. This is mainly a source where you can use to back up questions relating to practices of the U.S. food industry or how the food industry and government involvement of other countries differ from us.