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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] remove MSG from the food supply
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:29:57 -0400

At 10:39 PM 6/22/2008, you wrote:
Subject: [COMFOOD:] Comment period expires Tomorrow, Mon 6/23 on Petition to
FDA to remove MSG from food supply

Did you read any of the comments? The one from Jack Samuels, president of the Truth in Labeling Campaign, is revealing. Here's an excerpt:

There was a time, in the 1950s, when removal of monosodium glutamate from the
generally regarded as safe (GRAS) list would have benefited consumers.
However, when consumers began to be concerned about the toxic effects of the
flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate, an ingredient that was recognized as
containing processed free glutamic acid (MSG), food technologists began
developing additional ingredients to replace the flavor enhancing properties of
monosodium glutamate without revealing that there was MSG in those new
ingredients. Today, there is so much MSG in processed foods in ingredients such
as autolyzed yeast extract, sodium caseinate, various hydrolyzed protein
products, and various reaction flavor products; and there is so much MSG
produced when enzymes are introduced at the time of processing or manufacture;
that to eliminate the food ingredient monosodium glutamate (by removing it from
the GRAS list, or otherwise) would do very little to cut down on the amount of
MSG being offered to consumers.

He goes on to support the petition but state that it should go much farther. Bottom line, of course, is "Don't eat processed food."

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com



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