Chemicals Being Hidden in Food Under 'Artificial Flavors' Label

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:06 PM EDT

Article Source: Natural News

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Have you picked up a can of soup lately and noticed that the sodium levels are lower? Seen a label that said, "No MSG"? How about realizing that there is less sugar on the label of your favorite ice cream? Believe it or not, this is cause for concern.
A relatively young company, Senomyx, may be responsible for the sodium and sugar levels falling in your favorite grocery store item. Senomyx has contracted with Kraft, Nestle, Coca Cola, Campbell Soup to put a chemical in foods that masks bitter flavors by turning off bitter flavor receptors on the tongue and enhancing salty and sweet flavors. This would allow the companies to tout claims such as "less sugar" or "lower sodium" by reducing the actual sugar and/or salt by approximately half.

(and they don't have to tell you it's there)

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Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Michael Jacobson, commended Senomyx's strides to reduce MSG, salt, and sugar but warned against introducing a new chemical additive into the food supply without strenuous testing. "A three-month study is completely inadequate," he said. "What you want is at least a two-year study on several species of animals."

Once again the FDA is in complicity with the big food products industry that it is supposed to be regulating. These chemicals have not been tested adequately to see if they are safe before being injected into the food supply. And we're supposed to feed this stuff to our kids, our babies, ourselves?

The FDA's motto really must be 'shut up and swallow'.

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