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Re: [Livingontheland] remove MSG from the food supply
- 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.
- generally regarded as safe (GRAS) list would have benefited consumers.
Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
-
[Livingontheland] remove MSG from the food supply,
Tradingpost, 06/22/2008
- Re: [Livingontheland] remove MSG from the food supply, Liz, 06/23/2008
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