Unlabelled Allergens in Food Threatens Children's Health

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UNLABELED ALLERGENS IN FOOD THREATEN CHILDREN'S HEALTH

In the last issue of Organic Bytes, we highlighted Robyn O'Brien as the activist

of the week. Robyn's organization, AllergyKids.com, is working with the OCA to

close a loophole in U.S. food labeling regulations that is allowing common foods

to contain dangerous new allergens without labeling. Specifically, the U.S. Food

Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act fails to highlight and require

labels for the now commonplace foreign or " novel " gene-spliced proteins and

allergens in soy, corn, canola and other food products. According to Daniel

Sheehan, an FDA scientist, American children are part of " a large, uncontrolled

and basically unmonitored human infant experiment. " Contact your

Congress-members to require labels on gene-spliced foreign proteins and

allergens in food products, which are contributing to the epidemic of food

allergies, autism, ADHD and asthma in our children.

Learn more and take action:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_9979.cfm

 

 

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