Jeffrey M. Smith
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 On the basis of this deceptive statement, the FDA did not require the testing normally necessary for a new food additive.
WiUiam Freese "Contrary to popular opinion, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate GE foods. Instead, the FDA has a 'voluntary consultation' process that allows biotechnology companies to make all of the important decisions related to bringing their novel GE crops to market. The company, not the FDA, decides which, if any, safety tests to conduct and how they will be performed. |
Devra Davis
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 Its three members voted unanimously against approving aspartame, noting that the FDA "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive." Meanwhile, the grand jury investigation fizzled. So much time had elapsed that the authority to keep it going had expired. Expert legal advice—doubtlessly provided by former FDA officials who had started the investigation and now worked for the aspartame industry—had helped Searle run out the clock. Scientific evidence became irrelevant.
And then Donald Rumsfeld proved his worth. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Monoso-dium glutamate (MSG) and other artificial additives can also disturb sleep; some people who are sensitive to MSG suffer insomnia from the stimulant effects of this food additive.
Detecting a Nutritional Deficiency
Since nutrient deficiencies can be a factor in sleep disorders, one of the first steps is to determine which nutrients may be lacking in your diet so that you can design an individualized supplement program. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Safety Evaluation Studies of SGF Gum-a potential food additive from the seed of Sesbania cannabina. Food Chem Toxic. 26; 935-946. 1988
Gum Arabic
Acacia Senegal description
Medicinal Parts: The latex from the trunk and branches is the medicinal part of the plant.
Flower and Fruit: The inflorescences, which grow from the leaf axils, are up to 10 cm long. The flowers are white and grow in cylindrical, dense spikes. The calyx is cup-shaped with 5 sepals. The 5 petals are lanceolate. The numerous stamens are long and fused at the base. |
| The FDA has classified mistletoe as a food additive that cannot be marketed unless proved safe for consumption. This may not apply to the current suggested use for cancer chemotherapy as found in Europe and suggested by the German Commission E monographs. Consultation with a practitioner familiar with therapeutic use should be obtained prior to use.
All parts of the plant should be considered potentially toxic. The stems, leaves, and berries contain varying amounts, depending on the host tree, of three principal cytotoxic compounds: alkaloids, viscotoxins, and lectins. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Gordon: "Eliminate foods that are heavily processed and have been adulterated in any way—with any kind of food additive, preservative, coloring, artificial flavoring, artificial sweetener. Aspartame has been shown to cause serious brain damage in animals.
"If possible, eat food that has been raised organically. That way, you are eliminating the pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics that go into so much of the food supply, all of which have significant biological effects.
"Eat whole foods. It's crucial. Humans were meant to eat whole foods, not Pop Tarts. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Curcumin a natural plant phenolic food additive inhibits cell proliferation and induces cell cycle changes in colon adenocarcinoma cell lines by a prostaglandin-independent pathway. In: J Lab Clin Med, 42:576-84, 1997.
Hasmeda M, Polya GM. Inhibition of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase by curcumin. In: Phytochemistry, 42:599-605, 1996.
Huang HC, Jan TR, Yeh SF. Inhibitory effect of curcumin an antiinflammatory agent on vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. In: Eur J Pharmacol, 54:381-4, 1992.
Inagawa H et al. Homeostasis as regulated by activated macrophage. II. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 CURRENT For nearly twenty years, millions of consumers in Japan and Brazil, where PRACTICAL USES stevia is approved as a food additive, have been using stevia extracts as safe, natural, non-caloric sweeteners. Japan is the largest consumer of stevia leaves and extracts in the world, and there it is used to sweeten everything from soy sauce to pickles, confections, and soft drinks. |
| Nearly half of the harvest is directed to the food industry for the production of quinine water, tonic water, and as an FDA-approved bitter food additive. The remainder is utilized in the manufacture of the quinidine prescription drug. Quinine is very bitter tasting and commercially sold tonic waters often use quinine as their bitter ingredient/component. Commercially produced tonic water usually contains around 100-300 parts per million quinine and up to a maximum allowable concentration of 70 mg of quinine per liter. |
| In Japan and Brazil, stevia is approved as a food additive and sugar substitute.
Western interest in stevia began around the turn of the nineteenth century, when researchers in Brazil started hearing about a plant with leaves so sweet that just one leaf would sweeten a whole gourd full of bitter yerba mate tea. It was first studied in 1899 by Paraguayan botanist Moises S. Bertoni, who wrote some of the earliest articles on stevia (in the early 1900s).
Over 100 phytochemicals have been discovered in stevia since. It is rich in terpenes and flavonoids. |
| The FDA, in one of its more politically incorrect debacles, has ruled that
Traditional Preparation stevia is presumed safe as a dietary supplement but is considered unsafe as a food additive. This incongruity openly protects the profit margins of the "sweetener giants." In the words of Rob McCaleb, president of the Herb Research Foundation and member of the President's Commission on Dietary Supplements, "The FDA may have painted itself into a corner on this one. Its policy simply makes no sense."34
In the United States stevia is mostly employed as a sugar substitute. |
| The gum has a vanilla-like smell and taste and is used as a food additive and flavoring in cough syrups, soft drinks, confectioneries, and chewing gums.
TRIBAL AND HERBAL MEDICINE USES
Balsam has been officially listed as an herbal drug in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia since the early 1800s to treat bronchitis and other respiratory problems.
The indigenous tribes of Mexico and Central America use the leaves and fruit of M. pereirae for asthma, colds and flu, rheumatism, and external wounds. The Choco Indians use the powdered bark as an underarm deodorant. The sap of M. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 He introduced himself as an owner of one of the nation's largest food additive businesses, then proceeded to ask me about my strong objections to MSG. I politely explained, but could tell that he wasn't really listening. He twiddled the tip of his bulbous nose, staring at me over a pair of bifocals and said, "It doesn't matter what you say or do, we will figure out some way to put these additives in the foods."
I have come to learn that he was telling the truth. Food manufacturers have used every name in the book to disguise high-glutamate additives. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| An antigen may be a protein, starch, or other food component, or a food additive (e.g., coloring, flavoring agent, or preservative). When the IgE and food antigen bind to specialized cells known as mast cells or basophils, it causes the release of histamine and other allergic compounds leading to swelling and inflammation. Most food allergies are due to delayed hypersensitivity reactions of the immune system (as opposed to the IgE reaction of classical allergy) or neurological reactions that do not involve the immune system. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The author of the article, Michael Pollan, "was mystified by the fact that the Bt toxin was not being treated as a 'food additive' subject to labeling." The Bt protein was a new ingredient inside the potato being consumed by the public. According to the law any new additive must "be thoroughly tested and if it changes the product in any way, must be labeled." Pollan tells us how he asked the FDA's James Maryanski why the FDA didn't consider Bt a new food additive.
'"That's easy,' Maryanski said. 'Bt is a pesticide, so it's exempt' from FDA regulation. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Although any food or food additive can trigger eczema, eggs, fish, milk, peanuts, soy, and wheat appear to be the most common food allergens. In one study, eggs, milk, and peanuts accounted for roughly 81 percent of all cases of childhood eczema. For more information on dealing with food allergies, see "Food Allergy."
Patients with eczema also appear to have an essential fatty acid deficiency. This results in decreased synthesis of the anti-inflammatory prostaglandins. As a result, there is a relative increase in the prostaglandins that promote inflammation. |
| Also, when the antioxidant properties of saffron were compared to that of the common food additive butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), saffron was more effective than BHT in preventing lipid peroxidation, the cause of rancidity.
HOW TO SELECT AND STORE
Saffron is made up of tiny, bright red-orange stigma or threads; the redder the saffron, the higher its quality. Saffron threads are available both whole and ground into powder. |
| However, since it has not yet passed Food and Drug Administration testing as a food additive, it cannot be advertised as a sweetener in the United States. Since stevia preparations are not likely to be patented (you cannot patent something that exists in nature), no company has been willing to invest in the cost of FDA testing. Instead, it is sold as a "dietary supplement." There are several different brands of stevia (Stevita, Stevia Plus, SweetLeaf), each with a slightly different taste.
Another new sweetener looks promising: tagatose (Naturlose). |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 Unacceptable food additive. Approved active ingredient in a few Schedule OTC Traditional Herbal Medicines (e.g. Gallexier®) requiring pre-marketing authorization. U.K.: Herbal medicine on the General Sale List, Table A (internal or external use) of Schedule 1 (subject to a full Product License).
U.S.: Dietary supplement. Calamus rhizome, calamus extract, and calamus oil were formerly approved as a food additives but are now banned in foods (§189.110).
Authentication: Macroscopic (see: Description) and microscopic. Characteristic is the typical aerenchyma (Fig. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Other sources of aluminum include food wrappings, aluminum cookware, sodium aluminum phosphate (a food additive), baking powder, processed cheese, pickles, and some antacids.
Mercury
Mercury is perhaps the most toxic metal on the planet. Our two major sources of mercury exposure are fish and dental fillings. Fortunately, certain minerals or other molecules present in fish latch onto mercury and form a larger compound that, for some reason, is relatively harmless. However, the same is not true of the mercury in dental amalgams. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| Sugar is the pervasive food additive, present in almost all processed food, which also contains a number of other food additives to create "desirable" properties of taste, color, odor, consistency, stability, or emulsifiability. They are not added to enhance the nutritional quality of the food. I consider sugar the basic addictive substance from which all other addictions flow. The amount of refined sugar added to some foods will surprise many. Catsup contains 30 percent sugar. Some breakfast cereals have more sugar in them than do chocolate bars, containing over 50 percent sugar. |
Mike Adams
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 Such is the case for aspartame; this sweetener - along with other similar molecules, most notably MSG (monosodium glutamate), the food additive and flavor enhancer so pervasive in processed foods — behaves as a brain excitotoxin. Its chemical structure allows it to fit into a receptor within the brain called the NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspar-tate) receptor, triggering such overstimulation in the nerve cell that it dies. In other words, the brain cell literally becomes excited to death.
- Michael Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 One type of complex polysaccharide; often used as a food additive.
HPLC: High performance (or high pressure) liquid chromatograph. An instrument which performs separations and/or analysis of mixtures using COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY. hydrocarbon: A MOLECULE containing only carbon and hydrogen. hydrogen bond: An attraction between a hydrogen atom on an ELECTRONEGATIVE ATOM, such as N or O, and another electron-rich ATOM such as N or O. Terribly misnamed, it is not a BOND but rather a fairly strong attraction. hydrolysis: A reaction in which a MOLECULE is broken down by the addition of water. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 This particular food additive also speeds up sexual maturity in young women; d. artificial sweeteners, such as saccharine and aspartame; e. nitrites used in processed meat products; f. hexachlorophene, which is used in many cosmetics, soaps, and deodorants; g. food dyes; h. non-prescription and prescription drugs; i. almost all oil used in cooking in restaurants because it is rancid; j. chemicals used in cleaning products; k. and many other types of toxins. |
| Searle Company begins safety tests on aspartame so it can apply to the FDA for approval to use it as a food additive.
Fall 1967. Dr. Harold Waisman, a biochemist at the University of Wisconsin, conducts aspartame safety tests on infant monkeys on behalf of the Searle Company. Of the seven monkeys that were fed aspartame mixed with milk, one dies and five others have grand seizures!
November 1970. Cyclamate, the number one low-calorie artificial sweetener, is pulled off the market after it has been proven to cause cancer. |
| The Board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive and for human consumption."
January 1981. Donald Rumsfeld, the CEO of Searle, states in a sales meeting that he is going to make a big push in Washington by using his friends and connections to get aspartame approved within the year. Rumsfeld says that he will use his political pull, rather than scientific means, to make sure aspartame gets approved! Remember, if aspartame is approved, Searle makes tens of billions of dollars in profits and the stock skyrockets. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| In addition, tartrazine (Yellow Dye #5), a common food additive, is thought to trigger asthma in as many as 100,000 Americans. Ironically, before this association was discovered, some popular anti-asthma medications had been colored with tartrazine. Although this chemical is no longer used in asthma drugs, it is still added to many other prescription medications and processed foods.
Sulfites are another class of chemicals that can trigger asthma in susceptible individuals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It was none other than Donald Rumsfeld at the time who helped push aspartame through the FDA to get it legalized as a food additive.
Today, we now see the vast majority of complaints of food side effects sent to the FDA being caused by aspartame. Aspartame is an excitotoxin, that is, a neurotoxic chemical, and it breaks down in your body into both formic acid and formaldehyde. Now, would you like to go out and drink some formaldehyde? |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| The common food additive carrageenan is known to trigger powerful inflammation when injected or even rubbed on the skin. It activates the same inflammatory pathways that N-6 fats activate. Even doses so dilute that they don't produce obvious inflammation will still cause cancers to grow significantly faster and spread widely. This is because, like our diets high in N-6 fats, it's not enough to make us feel really bad, but enough to activate the enzymes triggering cancer growth and spread.
A number of experiments have shown that diets high in N-6 fats stimulate cancer growth and spread. |
Mike Adams
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| Such is the case for aspartame; this sweetener — along with other similar molecules, most notably MSG (monosodium glutamate), the food additive and flavor enhancer so pervasive in processed foods - behaves as a brain excitotoxin. Its chemical structure allows it to fit into a receptor within the brain called the NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspar-tate) receptor, triggering such overstimulation in the nerve cell that it dies. In other words, the brain cell literally becomes excited to death. |
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