Jeffrey M. Smith
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 It stated, "It has been made clear to us that this present submission [FlavrSavr] is not a food additive petition and the safety standard is not the food additive safety standard. It is less than that but I am not sure how much less."19 According to attorney Steven Druker, who is an expert in US food safety law, the FDA's own regulations clearly state that a lower standard cannot be applied in such instances.20'21 After the FlavrSavr review, no company has presented such detailed GM test data to the FDA (see part 2).
"I hear the argument of natural variability. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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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 ability to be emulsified. They are not added to enhance the nutritional quality of the food. Indeed, food additives, especially sugar, can be harmful to good health. |
Devra Davis
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 Almost any single one of these aberrations would suffice to negate a study designed to assess the safety of a food additive, and most certainly a combination of many such improper practices would, since the results are bound to be compromised.
It is unthinkable that any reputable toxicologist, given a completely objective evaluation of data resulting from such a study, could conclude anything other than that the study was uninterpretable and worthless, and should be repeated. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 If the child's asthma is triggered by a food additive this may be difficult, but it is possible to narrow down the foods that seem to trigger an attack.
One of the most common additives to cause asthmatic reactions is the yellow dye used as a food colouring, tartrazine. It is identified on labels as additive no. 102. Other troublesome additives are sodium metabisulphite and potassium metabisulphite, nos 223 and 224 respectively, which are preservatives used in making sausages, dried fruit such as raisins and currants, some fruit yoghurts, jams and essences. |
Michael Pollan
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 Because of these uncertainties, the FDA has declined to grant GRAS ("generally regarded as safe") status to soy isoflavones used as a food additive. As a senior scientist at the FDA's National Center forToxi-cological Research wrote, "Confidence that soy products are safe is clearly based more on belief than hard data." Until those data come in, I feel more comfortable eating soy prepared in the traditional Asian style than according to novel recipes developed by processors like Archer Daniels Midland.
«» DON'T LOOK FOR THE MAGIC BULLET IN THE TRADITIONAL DIET. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Possible Neurologic Effects of Aspartame, a Widely Used food additive." Environmental Health Perspectives 75 (1987): 53-57. http://ehp.mehs .nih.gov/members/1987/075/75010.PDF.
Marlatt, G. Alan, and Judith R. Gordon, eds. Relapse Prevention: Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors. New York: Guilford Press, 1985.
Mars, Brigitte. Addiction-Free Naturally: Liberating Yourself from Sugar, Caffeine, Food Addictions, Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Drugs. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2001.
Maudlin, R. K. "FDA Approves Sucralose for Expanded Use. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a film about aspartame and other food additive chemicals and how Cori overcame this chemical burden and restored her health. Google Video hosts the entire 90 minutes of this video.
Click here to view it now on Google Video
Note also that you can buy the DVD from www.SoundAndFuryProductions.com along with many other fascinating health freedom movies.
This parrot grooves to the Backstreet Boys
Some people still don't think that animals have consciousness or emotions. Watch this incredible video of a hip hop dancing parrot and you'll instantly see otherwise. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 DOSAGE
Mode of Administration: Samphire is used internally and is available as an extract and also as a food additive.
LITERATURE
Francke W, (1982) Econ Bot 36 (2):163. Further information in:
Hegnauer R, Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11, Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin 1962-1997.
Crocus Sativus
Saffron
DESCRIPTION
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are stigma and style.
Flower and Fruit: The lilly-like flowers have two 2 bracts at the base. There is a pale violet-veined calyx, yellow anthers, and a white filament. The thread-like style is 10 mm long. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Druker also points to a statement in one FDA scientist's memo that shows the agency administrators had instructed their scientists to subject GM foods to a lower safety standard than that normally applied to food additives: "It has been made clear to us that this present submission [FlavrSavr rat study] is not a food additive petition and the safety standard is not the food additive safety standard. It is less than that but I am not sure how much less. |
Ruth Winter
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 Although allowed as a food additive, there is no current reported use of the chemical, and, therefore, although toxicology information may be available, it is not being updated.
BABASSU OIL • A nondrying edible oil expressed from the kernels of the babassu palm, which grows in Brazil. Used in foods and soaps but is expensive. No known toxicity.
BACITRACIN • An antibiotic. White to pale with a slight odor. Used as an animal drug in beef, chicken, eggs, milk, pheasant, pork, and turkey. Used to increase weight gain, improve feed efficiency, and treat bacterial infections in swine. |
| Although allowed as a food additive, there is no current reported use of the chemical, and therefore, although toxicology information may be available, it is not being updated, according to the FDA. ETHYL BUTYL ACETATE • A synthetic fruit flavoring for beverages, ice cream, ices, and candy.
ETHYL BUTYRATE • Butyric Acid. Pineapple Oil. Colorless, with a pineapple odor. It occurs naturally in apples and strawberries. In alcoholic solution it is known as pineapple oil. |
| ACCEPTABLE DAILY INTAKE (ADI) • An estimate of the amount of a food additive, expressed on a body-weight basis, that can be ingested daily over a lifetime without appreciable health risk, according to the World Health Organization (1987). ACE K • See Acesulfame.
ACENAPHTENE • White needles derived from coal tar, insoluble in water. Used as a dye intermediate in pharmaceuticals, insecticides, fungicides, and plastics. See Coal Tar. |
| In recent years, developments in the scientific fields and in consumer awareness brought to light the inadequacies in food additive testing. The difficulties in listing some additives as GRAS without adequate testing have also been illuminated. For example, cyclamates, the artificial sweeteners, were shown to be cancer-causing agents in laboratory animals and were removed from the market. They had been on the GRAS list. As a result of these inadequacies in 1969 President Richard M. Nixon directed the FDA to reevaluate all of the items on the GRAS list. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a manufactured flavor-enhancing food additive comprised of just the sodium salt of glutamate. MSG is widely distributed in the food industry, and is most often disguised with deceptive product labels used to hide its presence. |
| Aspartame is yet another dangerous chemical food additive and is contained in at least 5,000 products around the world. Common products include "diet" carbonated and non-carbonated drinks, yogurt, pudding, tabletop sweeteners (for restaurants), chewing gum, frozen confections, and even vitamins and cough drops.
DEFINITION
NutraSweet® was first produced by G. D. Searle Company. The Searle Company was due to be prosecuted by the U. S. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Sugar Alcohols: New Drink or food additive?" http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ ada/hs.xsl/home_4383_ENU_HTML.htm. Appleton, Nancy. Lick the Sugar Habit. Garden City Park, NY: Avery Publishing, 1988. Aspartame Consumer Safety Network website, http://www.aspartamesafety.com/. Aspartame (NutraSweet) Toxicity Info Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/. Austin Business Journal. "Texas Consumer Group Is Sour on Splenda Sweetener," January 31, 2005. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2005/01/31/daily6.html. Bailey, Bill. "What Is Stevia Rebaudiana and Is It Safe?" http://www. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Olestra is the first food additive with negative nutritional value. It is hard to conceive how much damage this "plastic" food will cause if it remains in our food chain for several decades and, what makes things worse, it will be extremely difficult to trace any health damage to the use of olestra. It is very unlikely that there will be any further research done on the side effects of olestra or similar foods. Hence it is up to each one of us to take more responsibility for our health and that of our families. |
| On Sept 30, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval of aspartame as a food additive. In 1981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and, a day after taking office, Reagan appointed Hayes. |
| Disguised by its lovely sweet taste, it is yet another Frankenstein food additive of the industry. It is produced by chlorinating sugar molecules. Chlorinated molecules actually accumulate in body fat and can come back to haunt a body many, many years later. Splenda is synthetic and, having a chlorinated base like DDT, it can cause autoimmune disease (the body's natural reaction to attack and neutralize such poisons). Sucralose or Splenda is not safe. In the original research Splenda was shown to cause many health problems. |
| The B-vitamin Folic acid is also a common food additive, and potentially one of the most harmful ones. After researchers first discovered that people in malaria regions suffered from folic acid deficiency, they gave them this B vitamin in the belief that it would make their immune systems more resistant to the malaria bug. The children who were given this vitamin felt worse after the treatment and were found to have much higher concentrations of malaria-causing agents in their blood than before. |
| In the United States, xylitol is approved as a direct food additive for use in foods for special dietary uses. It can be purchased in bulk form from health food stores and many online stores (see Product Information). Many people use it in their breakfast cereals and for baking.
3. D-Mannose for Bladder/Kidney Infections
D-Mannose is considered to be a simple sugar, like glucose. It is naturally found in cranberry and pineapple juice. When D-Mannose is ingested into the body, most of it is rapidly absorbed through the stomach and upper gastrointestinal tract before reaching the intestines. |
Ruth Winter
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| Banned as a food additive by the FDA.
CALCIUM ACETATE • Brown Acetate of Lime. A white amorphous powder that has been used medicinally as a source of calcium. It is used in the manufacture of acetic acid and acetone and in dyeing, tanning, and curing skins as well as a corrosion inhibitor in metal containers. Used cosmetically for solidifying fragrances and as an emulsifier and firming agent. Low oral toxicity. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The CSPI has recommended to the FDA to change the status of salt from "generally recognized as safe" (which leaves it essentially unregulated), to "food additive" since this would give the FDA more authority to regulate its use in foods.
The idea of regulating table salt may sound ridiculous at first but it's actually a great idea. Remember the Japanese and their long lifespans? Well, it seems there's always a catch. Many of the fermented soy products the Japanese consume are overloaded with refined table salt. In fact, much research suggests ".. .dietary factors, especially sodium ... |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Bear in mind, he explains, that even a very minor change in manufacturing techniques and trace ingredients can cause molecular changes in something like a food additive to occur—creating a "neo-antigen," or a new target for the immune system to potentially recognize as foreign. "That change might seem insignificant to the manufacturer," he explains, "yet it might have a very severe impact, resulting in an autoimmune response in a subset of children who are genetically predisposed to autoimmunity. |
Ruth Winter
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| The determination that a food additive is "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) left up to the manufacturer.
• The presence of some unidentified additives listed as "natural" flavorings or colorings—a potentially dangerous situation for a number of allergic citizens.
• The inability to control the residues of more than ninety antibiotics in meat, poultry, and vegetable crops that may be contributing to the increasingly alarming antibiotic-resistant bacteria. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| An extremist might argue that no food additive is safe. However, many food additives fulfill important functions in our modern-day food supply. Many compounds approved as additives are natural in origin and possess health-promoting properties, while others are synthetic compounds with known cancer-causing effects. In this section, we will help you distinguish between whole, natural foods and foods that are highly processed.
Colors
The total annual consumption of food coloring in the United States is approximately 120 million pounds for the entire population. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| But, in the United States, although "it can impart a sweet taste to foods, it cannot be sold as a sweetener because the FDA considers it an unapproved food additive." The governmental agency, which contends that "toxicological information on stevia is inadequate to demonstrate its safety," has therefore banned its use in foods, beverages, cosmetics, flavors, and pharmaceutical products. But, under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), stevia can be sold as a "dietary supplement"; it's illegal, however, to promote it as a sweetener. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Mode of Administration: Samphire is used internally and is available as an extract and a food additive. literature
Coiffard L, Piron-Frenet M, Amicel L. Geographical variations of the constituents of the essential oil of Crithmum maritimum L, Apiaceae. Int J Cosmet Sci. 15; 15-21. 1993
Guil JL, Torija ME, Gimenez JJ, Rodriguez-Garcia I, Gimenez A. Oxalic Acid and Calcium Determination in Wild Edible Plants. J Agric Food Chem. 44 (7); 1821-1823. 1996
Hegnauer R, Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11, Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin 1962-1997. |
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