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Anybody know about this?  I received from a local here.
 

--- On Tue, 4/21/09, Fuzz 







This is unreal, one way or another they are going to get MSG in our foods!

fuzz






MSG Is Being Sprayed On 
Fruits, Veggies, Nuts,
Grains And Seeds
As They Are Growing...Even 
Those Used In Baby Food
Truth In Labeling.org
4-20-9

 







In the 1970s, reluctant food processors "voluntarily" took processed free 
glutamic acid (MSG) out of baby food. Today it's back, in fertilizers called 
"Omega Protein Refined/Hydrolyzed Fish Emulsion" and "Steam Hydrolyzed 
Feather Meal," both of which contain hydrolyzed proteins; and in a product 
called AuxiGro WP Plant Metabolic Primer (AuxiGro) produced by Emerald 
BioAgriculture (formerly Auxein Corporation), which contains both hydrolyzed 
protein(s) and "monosodium glutamate." AuxiGro is being sprayed on some of 
the vegetables we and our children will eat, into the air we and our children 
must breath, and onto the ground from which it can move into drinking water. 
Head lettuce, leaf lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, and peanuts were among the 
first crops targeted. On September 12, 2000, the Auxein Corporation Web site 
gave the following information: 
  
Crops registered include: Celery; Fresh Market Cucumbers; Edible Navy and 
Pinto Beans; Grapes; Bulb Onions; Bell, Green and Jalapeno Peppers; Iceberg 
Head Lettuce; Romaine and Butter Leaf Lettuce; Peanuts; Potatoes; Snap Beans; 
Strawberries; Processing Tomatoes; Fresh Tomatoes; and Watermelons. 
Today, there is no crop that we know of that has not been approved for 
treatment with MSG by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 
  
Even in California -- the only state where there are any restrictions on the 
use of AuxiGro -- AuxiGro has been approved for use on a number of crops, and 
Emerald BioAgriculture continues to push for more. Field tests in California 
have been -- and may continue to be -- conducted on a variety of crops, and 
those AuxiGro treated crops may be sold in the open market without revealing 
that they have been treated. We can't tell you which crops those are because 
the CDPR has refused to send records of test trials (which are public 
information) to the Truth in Labeling Campaign. 
  
As of June 13, 2002, AuxiGro was registered for use in California on 
tomatoes, almonds, apricots, cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches, prunes, 
grapes (including grapes to be used in wine), and onions. At that time, the 
California Department of Pesticide Regulation said they were not aware of any 
testing of AuxiGro for use on other crops. They also said that they did not 
have any proposals presently in house to register additional crops for 
AuxiGro. It would appear, however, that what the CDPR said was not true, for 
the CDPR subsequently announced that Emerald BioAgriculture had applied for 
permission to use AuxiGro on tomatoes (new use), and on melons (new crop) -- 
and, to the best of our knowledge, approval is always preceded by field 
testing. 
  
On July 7, 2004, Emerald BioAgriculture requested approval of use of AuxiGro 
as a desiccant, disinfectant, fertilizer, fungicide, growth regulator - for 
increased yield and prevention of powdery mildew in various crops such as 
almonds, grapes, and melons. They also asked to add cole crops (including 
broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, collards, turnips, 
rutabaga, mustard, watercress, and kohlrabi) to the list of crops approved 
for AuxiGro use. 
  
Approval for use on organic crops--in all states--has been requested. 
  
What's wrong with using glutamic acid, an amino acid found in protein, as a 
spray on crops? 
  
- In protein, amino acids are found in balanced combinations. Use of free 
glutamic acid as a spray on crops throws the amino acid balance out of 
kilter. 
- It's not the glutamic acid found in protein that is being sprayed on crops, 
it's a synthetic product. The spray being used most widely is called AuxiGro. 
The "free glutamic acid" or so called "L-glutamic acid" component being used 
by its manufacturer, Emerald BioAgriculture, contains L-glutamic acid, an 
amino acid found in protein; but it also contains D-glutamic acid, 
pyroglutamic acid, and other chemicals referred to in the industry as 
"contaminants." The free glutamic acid used in AuxiGro is processed free 
glutamic acid. It is manufactured -- in chemical plants -- where certain 
selected genetically engineered bacteria -- feeding on a liquid nutrient 
medium -- excrete the free glutamic acid they synthesize outside of their 
cell membrane into the liquid medium in which they are grown. In contrast, 
the free glutamic acid found in protein, and the free glutamic acid involved 
in normal human body function, are unprocessed. free glutamic acid, and 
contain
 no contaminants. 
  
- No one knows what the long term effects of spraying processed free glutamic 
acid on crops will be. 
  
- That the processed free glutamic acid (MSG) will be absorbed into the body 
of the plant and into the fruit, nuts, seeds, or vegetable it produces seems 
undeniable. If it were not, the plant would not be stimulated to grow. 
Neither Emerald BioAgriculture or the EPA will address this issue. 
  
- That there will be residue left on crops has not been disputed by Emerald 
BioAgriculture. But no study of either the amount of that residue, or the 
least amount of processed free glutamic acid needed to cause a reaction in an 
MSG-sensitive person, has ever been done. "It should wash off" doesn't mean 
it will wash off. "It seems unlikely that such a small amount would cause a 
reactions" doesn't mean that a small amount will not cause a reaction or have 
long term health effects. 
  
- Free glutamic acid is known to be toxic to the nervous system. But the 
neurotoxic effects that processed free glutamic acid will have on animals 
that consume the plants on which it is sprayed - effects over and above any 
effects caused by external glutamic acid residue - have never been evaluated. 
Neither are there data on the effects that spraying processed free glutamic 
acid will have on drinking water. 
  
- Consider, also, that children are most at risk from the effects of 
processed free glutamic acid. Their undeveloped blood-brain barriers leave 
them most at risk from exposure to processed free glutamic acid. It has been 
repeatedly demonstrated that infant animals fed processed free glutamic acid 
when young develop neuroendocrine problems such as gross obesity, stunted 
growth, and reproductive disorders later in life, and that they also develop 
learning disabilities. Emerald BioAgriculture did not address that particular 
safety issue in its application to the EPA. 
  
- No one knows how little glutamic acid is needed to kill a single brain cell 
or to trigger an adverse reaction. 
  
- Free glutamic acid is a neurotransmitter. It causes nerves to fire, 
carrying nerve impulses throughout the nervous system. 
  
- Free glutamic acid is a neurotoxin. Under certain circumstances, free 
glutamic acid will cause nerves to fire repeatedly, until they die. 
  
- Processed free glutamic acid kills brain cells. The free glutamic acid 
ingested by laboratory animals that caused brain lesions and neuroendocrine 
disorders was very often given in the form of the food ingredient "monosodium 
glutamate." "Monosodium glutamate" is the name of a particular food additive. 
Processed free glutamic acid is the reactive component in "monosodium 
glutamate," just as processed free glutamic acid is a reactive component in 
AuxiGro. 
  
The glutamate industry research done in the 1970s that was submitted to the 
EPA by the Auxein Corporation, that pretended to find that processed free 
glutamic acid is "safe," has been long refuted by independent scientists. 
Indeed, at the present time, neuroscientists attempting to develop drugs to 
block the toxic effects of free glutamic acid are using processed free 
glutamic acid to selectively kill certain kinds of brain cells. 
  
- Processed free glutamic acid causes neuroendocrine disorders in maturing 
animals that ingest processed free glutamic acid early in life. 
  
- Processed free glutamic acid causes learning disorders in maturing animals 
that ingest processed free glutamic acid early in life. 
  
- Processed free glutamic acid crosses the placental barrier and causes 
learning disabilities in animal offspring of dams that ingest it. 
  
- Processed free glutamic acid has access to the brain through the 
blood-brain barrier, which is not impervious to the unregulated flow of 
processed free glutamic acid. The blood-brain barrier is immature at birth 
and may continue to develop up to puberty. In certain areas called the 
circumventricular organs, the blood barrier is never impervious to the 
unregulated flow of free glutamic acid. In addition, the blood-brain barrier 
is easily damaged by such events as high fever, a blow to the head, drug use, 
stroke, ingestion of processed free glutamic acid, and the normal process of 
aging. 
  
- The National Institutes of Health recognize glutamic acid as being 
associated with addiction, stroke, epilepsy, degenerative disorders such as 
Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and ALS, brain trauma, neuropathic 
pain, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. 
  
- For years, free glutamic acid has been produced and used in food additives 
with names such as monosodium glutamate, sodium caseinate, and hydrolyzed soy 
protein. In some people, the processed free glutamic acid in food additives 
causes adverse reactions that include migraine headache, asthma, arrhythmia, 
tachycardia, nausea and vomiting, depression, and disorientation. The 
processed free glutamic acid in prescription and non-prescription drugs, food 
supplements, and cosmetics can also cause adverse reactions. 
  
There are badly flawed industry-sponsored studies that have pretended to find 
that processed free glutamic acid does not cause adverse reactions. 
Inappropriate procedures used by the glutamate industry have included 
limiting subjects to people virtually guaranteed not to be sensitive to 
processed free glutamic acid, and/or using processed free glutamic acid or 
other similarly reactive substances in placebos as well as in test material. 
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has based its claim that processed 
free glutamic acid causes only mild and transitory reactions on those badly 
flawed industry-sponsored studies. 
  
- Even the EPA admits that the food additive called "monosodium glutamate" 
causes adverse reactions. 
  
- Even the FDA admits that the food additive "monosodium glutamate" contains 
processed free glutamic acid. 
- Even the FDA admits that many consumers refer to all free glutamic acid as 
"MSG." 
  
The EPA's approvals of use of MSG in agriculture are simple, straightforward, 
and in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
  
In reviewing the application of Auxein Corporation (now Emerald 
BioAgriculture) for use of processed free glutamic acid in a spray to be 
applied to crops as they grow, the EPA failed to conform to the requirements 
of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which require, in part, that the 
EPA review any proposed action for validity, completeness, reliability, and 
relationship to human risk. The EPA also ignored Executive Order 13045 which 
requires government agencies to consider available information concerning the 
variability of the sensitivities of major identifiable subgroups of 
consumers, including infants and children. For example, Auxein Corporation 
sent the EPA 14 industry-sponsored toxicological studies from the literature, 
all done in the 1970's, but failed to mention hundreds of studies in the 
literature that refuted those 14 studies. Auxein Corporation even failed to 
send the EPA independent studies that appeared in the same book(s) as the
 industry-sponsored studies sent to the EPA. For example, although processed 
free glutamic acid causes brain lesions and neuroendocrine disorders in 
infant animals, this special hazard faced by infants was ignored by Auxein 
Corporation. It would appear that Auxein Corporation restricted its 
consideration of "available information" to information made available by the 
glutamate industry; and the EPA, even after having been sent abstracts from 
other "available information," has not challenged the Auxein Corporation 
applications. A more complete discussion of the shortcomings of the EPA 
approvals granted to Auxein Corporation has been submitted to the EPA. 
  
Questions about the safety of spraying processed free glutamic acid on plants 
and into the environment have been raised by the Truth in Labeling Campaign 
and by individual consumers. The EPA has refused to address those concerns. 
The EPA, and, in particular, EPA spokesperson Dr. Janet Andersen, has failed 
to respond to allegations that in approving the spraying of processed free 
glutamic acid, the EPA failed to consider the reliability, validity, and 
completeness of the Auxein Corporation application or comply with Executive 
Order 13045 entitled Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks 
and Safety Risks, except to say that the EPA had complied with executive 
order 13045. Moreover, while responding to letters that asked direct 
questions of the EPA, Andersen failed to respond to most, if not all, of the 
direct questions contained in those letters. 
  
AuxiGro, the first MSG-laced plant "growth enhancer" to hit the market, has 
been approved for spraying on every crop we know of, with no restrictions on 
the amount of processed free glutamic acid (MSG) that may remain in and/or on 
crops when brought to market. Even before consumers had an inkling that crops 
were being sprayed, the Truth in Labeling Campaign received reports that 
MSG-sensitive consumers had gotten sick from head lettuce and potatoes. 
  
Federal Register notices chronicling the application and approval of 
processed free glutamic acid are available on the Web via GPO Access, the 
Federal Register, through: 
<http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html>http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html.
 Application for approval of use of AuxiGro was made to the EPA in 1997. 
Testing of the product was also approved in that year, and many of the test 
crops sprayed with AuxiGro were brought to market without notifying 
consumers. Glutamic acid was granted an exemption from establishment of a 
tolerance limit in January, 1998. AuxiGro was also approved for use on a 
number of crops in January, 1998, and approved for use on other crops later. 
No announcement of these approvals was made in the Federal Register. 
  
Due to a technical glitch in the system, the glutes came to need one more 
approval to make their California registrations work. The glutes were asking 
for AuxiGro to be approved for use as a fungicide in California, but the EPA 
had only approved AuxiGro for use as a pesticide produce or plant growth 
enhancer. And when application was made for this addition to their approvals, 
the application was brought to our attention; and the Truth in Labeling 
Campaign filed a formal protest to this approval of AuxiGro. 
<http://truthinlabeling.org/msg-objection-s1.html>The Formal Objection of the 
Truth in Labeling Campaign was filed on August 16, 2001 with the EPA. 
  
By law, formal objections filed in a timely manner must be responded to 
within six months. Also, by law (we were told) even though the Final Rule had 
not been promulgated, this additional use of AuxiGro would be considered 
approved unless and until the EPA determined that it should be otherwise. In 
July, 2004, we received a conference call from Dr. Andersen and a number of 
other EPA players, including an EPA lawyer -- a "courtesy call" telling us 
that our objections had been discounted and that the Final Rule allowing use 
of AuxiGro as a fungicide would be published shortly in the Federal Register. 
  
What's wrong at the EPA? 
  
Neither the EPA nor Janet Andersen, Ph.D., director of the Biopesticides and 
Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD), are stupid. Rather, all evidence would 
appear to suggest that the EPA, which is charged with protecting the health 
of Americans, says it is protecting the health of Americans, when in fact the 
EPA acts to protect the bottom line of big business. Don't think for a moment 
that MSG is the only toxin unleashed on the American public by the EPA. Let 
the words "methyl parathion" and "DDT" jog your memory. 
The EPA, in granting the chemical referred to as "L-glutamic acid" an 
exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of "L-glutamic 
acid" on all food commodities when applied/used in accordance with good 
agricultural practices (thereby allowing unrestricted amounts of processed 
free glutamic acid (MSG) residue to remain in and on any and all food crops 
that come under the EPA's jurisdiction) violated Section 408(c)(2)(A)(i), 
Section 408(c)(2)(ii), Section 408(c)(2)(B), and Section 408(b)(2)(D) of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. 
  
Neither "L-Glutamic Acid and Gamma Aminobutyric Acid; Exemptions from the 
Requirement of a Tolerance; Final Rule" (Federal Register June 21, 2001) nor 
"Glutamic Acid; Pesticide Tolerance Exemption; Final Rule" (Federal Register 
January 7, 1998), which preceded it, met the criteria established by law for 
granting exemptions from the restriction of a tolerance. 
How did spokesperson Andersen excuse the fact that the EPA approved processed 
free glutamic acid for use in an EPA approved spray? First, said Andersen, 
the free glutamic acid used in the spray is naturally occurring, and it's 
99.3 per cent pure pharmaceutical grade L-glutamic acid. Yet, in admitting 
that the free glutamic acid in AuxiGro is not 100 per cent pure L-glutamic 
acid, and that it is pharmaceutical grade, Andersen contradicted herself, and 
actually made the point that 1) if the free glutamic acid used in AuxiGro 
were truly natural, it wouldn't be "pharmaceutical grade;" and 2) if the free 
glutamic acid used in AuxiGro were truly natural it would be 100 per cent, 
not 99.3 per cent pure L-glutamic acid. 
  
Andersen said something else very interesting. She said that the EPA is well 
aware of the fact that MSG causes adverse reactions. However, when Andersen 
used the term "MSG" she was referring to the one food ingredient called 
"monosodium glutamate," and not to the free glutamic acid in "monosodium 
glutamate" that causes adverse reactions. Failure to define terms, asAnderson 
did (and does) so handily, is both deceptive and misleading. 
  
What Andersen did is very clever. What she said makes no sense at all. No one 
has ever claimed that the processed free glutamic acid in AuxiGro comes out 
of a box labeled "monosodium glutamate." So for her to say it doesn't, is 
meaningless. On the other hand, the claim has been made that the free 
glutamic acid in AuxiGro will cause the same brain lesions, neuroendocrine 
disorders, adverse reactions and other diverse disease conditions that are 
caused by the free glutamic acid in "monosodium glutamate" and the other food 
additives that contain processed free glutamic acid. That claim is true, but 
Andersen does not address it. How do you refute someone who ignores 
legitimate questions and spews out irrelevant statements as though they 
pertained to your legitimate questions? You don't. The EPA defense of its 
approval of use of processed free glutamic acid in plant "growth enhancers" 
and its registration of AuxiGro has two parts to it: 1) ignoring those who
 question EPA actions, and 2) making the irrelevant statement that AuxiGro 
does not contain MSG (monosodium glutamate). 
  
Neither Andersen nor anyone else at the EPA ever addressed the criticism that 
approvals given by the EPA to allow the use of free glutamic acid and the 
product AuxiGro were inappropriate. 
The EPA, which approved the used of processed free glutamic acid in plant 
"growth enhancers," made a grievous error. But instead of recognizing and 
remedying that error once it was pointed out to them, the EPA began a 
cover-up. That cover-up included use of ambiguous words and phrases, 
half-truths, and downright lies told to consumers. The cover-up continued 
(and continues still) with a variation of those ambiguous words and phrases, 
half-truths, and downright lies told to legislators who inquire about 
spraying MSG into the environment. 
  
You might find the Emerald BioAgriculture sales literature interesting 
  
Sales literature promoting AuxiGro was once found on their Web site, but is 
now long gone. While Federal Register notices included the fact that there is 
processed free glutamic acid (MSG) in AuxiGro, the sales literature from 
Auxein Corporation did not mention the fact that their product contains free 
glutamic acid until the Truth in Labeling Campaign began to broadcast that 
information. In November, 1999, Auxein added deceptive, misleading, and 
untrue statements in an elaboration of its Product Page, wherein they 
essentially make the untrue assertion that the glutamic acid used in AuxiGro 
is chemically and biologically identical to that found in plants and animals. 
  
Sales literature did (on September 12, 2000), however, contain the following: 
  
"PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS 
  
HAZARDS TO HUMAN AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS ­ CAUTION" 
  
If you think you might be reacting to AuxiGro sprayed on crops, you might 
want to try to (contact Emerald BioAgriculture (formerly Auxein Corporation) 
at the addresses that follow. (A friend recently told us that he tried to 
contact them by e-mail, but his e-mail was returned unopened.) By law, the 
company is required to forward reports of adverse reactions to the EPA. You 
might want to ask the EPA if Emerald BioAgriculture did so. 
John L. Mclntyre, Ph.D. 
President & CEO 
Emerald BioAgriculture (formerly Auxein Corporation) 
3125 Sovereign Drive, Ste. B 
Lansing, MI 48911-4240 
Phone (888) 828-9346 
Fax (517) 882-7521 
mailto:%20sales AT auxein.com 
  
  
(From time to time, their web page, http://www.auxein.com , can be accessed 
by password only.) 
Please feel free to copy and distribute this material, including our Web 
address, for those who might be interested. 
  
http://truthinlabeling.org/msgsprayed.html
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My friend Ava called me this morning and invited me to go with her to
the county library's annual book sale.  I love going, but I always
forget about it so I usually miss the event.  This year, we were there
when the doors opened!
For $11, I got the following items:
2 music CD's-classical music by Handel and the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus Christmas music(it is beautiful)
3 videos-The Lion King (for Jordan), Overboard(I love that movie!) and
Dead Poets Society
I also got the following books:
_Weight Watchers 15 minute cookbook_ (for Katie)
_Plant Science: Growth Development and Utilization of Cultivated plants_
(textbook)
_The Outhouse to the Whitehouse to the Treehouse_, by Sam Isaac Edwards
_Rodale's Naturally Great Foods Cookbook_
Culinary Arts Institute _Scandinavian Cookbook_
Euell Gibbon's _Stalking the Wild Asparagus_
DeWitt and Rosland's _The Pepper Garden_
Creekmore's _Making Gifts from Oddments and Outdoor Materials_
Sorosky's _Cookery for Entertaining_
Mara Rogers _Cooking in Cast Iron: Yesterday's Flavors for Today's Kitchen_

Maybe I should have eaten breakfast!  Most of the stuff is food related!

I was exceptionally happy to find Euell's book.  It is from 1962 and
still has the paper jacket.
The 1977 Rodale's book seems to have simple but nutritious and classic
recipes that I can make from garden produce.
The Scandinavian cookbook has a recipe for Glogg that sounds like Ron's
grandmother's recipe that was lost.
The Cast Iron cookbook seems to have some unique recipes, too.
I'm excited, too, to read the Plant Science book.  Sadly, the only
botany I had in school was during Biology 102 or something like that.
I've never had any kind of botanical or horticultural training, so I am
quite excited to be taken this via homeschool(and you thought it was
just for kids, HA!)

For $11, I think I made out like a bandit!

As a bonus, we stopped at Ava's on the way back and she gave me some
verbena(Purple, homestead type) a cutting of anise hyssop, some creek
irises, and a nearly dead Scotch Moss that needs ICU treatment.  Woohoo!
Books and plants to boot!





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"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt  should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered
and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
lest Rome become bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of
living on public assistance."

--Cicero, 55 BC
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