A plate of food is on the table in front of you. It could be anything: a salad, a sandwich, fish, a steak dinner. It could be at a restaurant where you’ve eaten dozens of times before. You could even have asked the server about the ingredients. But you still don’t know whether that meal is going to make you seriously, perhaps even deathly, ill. That’s what living with sensitivity to MSG can be like. That was the challenge faced by Jack and Adrienne Samuels daily, as Jack suffered debilitating reactions to anything that contained MSG.

The Man Who Sued the FDA is the story of Jack’s decades-long battle to understand the toxic effects of MSG, where MSG is hidden in food, and the methods used by industry and their friends at the FDA to hide the truth about MSG-toxicity from consumers. It’s the story of Jack’s determination to find a way to eat without risk, as he helped others facing the same struggle.

“The Man Who Sued the FDA” is a “must read” for those who care about the politics involved in FDA/industry cooperation. It describes in great detail the research and the propaganda machine that Jack and Adrienne found enabling the FDA/industry claim that MSG is “safe”—the why, what, when, where, who, and how the glutamate industry pours neurotoxic chemicals into American food with the blessings of the FDA.