What's Wrong with Spraying Processed Free Glutamic Acid (MSG) on Growing Crops

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What's Wrong with

Spraying Processed Free Glutamic Acid (MSG)

on Growing Crops?

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What's wrong with using free glutamic acid, an amino acid found in protein,

as a spray on crops?

1. It's not the glutamic acid found in protein that is being sprayed on

crops, it's a manufactured product. The spray being used is called AuxiGro. The

" free glutamic acid " or so called " L-glutamic acid " component being used by

its manufacturer, Auxein Corporation (now known as Emerald BioAgriculture)

contains L-glutamic acid, an amino acid found in protein; but it also contains

undeclared D-glutamic acid, pyroglutamic acid, and other chemicals referred to

in the industry as " contaminants. " The free glutamic acid used in AuxiGro is

processed free glutamic acid -- the same processed free glutamic acid found

in the food ingredient called " monosodium glutamate. " It is manufactured --

in chemical plants -- where certain selected genetically engineered bacteria

-- feeding on a liquid nutrient medium -- excrete the free glutamic acid they

synthesize outside of their cell membrane into the liquid medium in which

they are grown. In contrast, the free glutamic acid found in protein, and the

free glutamic acid involved in normal human body function, are unprocessed free

glutamic acid, and contain no contaminants.

2. In protein, amino acids are found in balanced combinations. Use of free

glutamic acid as a spray on crops throws the amino acid balance out of kilter.

 

3. No one knows what the long term effects of spraying processed free

glutamic acid on crops will be. That there will be residue left in and/or on

crops

has not been disputed by Auxein/Emerald BioAgriculture. But no study of

either the amount of that residue, or the least amount of processed free

glutamic

acid (MSG) needed to cause a reaction in an MSG-sensitive person, has ever

been done. " It should wash off " doesn't mean it will wash off, or that it

hasn't been absorbed into the plant. " It seems unlikely that such a small

amount

would cause a reaction " doesn't mean that a small amount will not cause a

reaction or have long term health effects.

Free glutamic acid is known to be toxic to the nervous system. But the

neurotoxic effects that processed free glutamic acid will have on animals that

consume the plants on which it is sprayed - effects over and above any effects

caused by external glutamic acid residue - have never been evaluated. Neither

are there data on the effects that spraying processed free glutamic acid will

ultimately have on drinking water.

Consider, also, that children are most at risk from the effects of processed

free glutamic acid. Their undeveloped blood-brain barriers leave them most

at risk from exposure to processed free glutamic acid. It has been repeatedly

demonstrated that infant animals fed processed free glutamic acid when young,

develop neuroendocrine problems such as gross obesity, stunted growth, and

reproductive disorders later in life, and that they also develop learning

disabilities. Moreover, processed free glutamic acid has been shown to cross

the

placental barrier and cause learning disabilities in animal offspring of

dams that ingest it. Auxein/Emerald BioAgriculture did not address these

particular safety issue in its applications to the EPA.

4. No one knows how little glutamic acid is needed to kill a single brain

cell or to trigger an adverse reaction.

5. Free glutamic acid is a neurotransmitter. It causes nerves to fire,

carrying nerve impulses throughout the nervous system.

6. Free glutamic acid is a neurotoxin. Under certain circumstances, free

glutamic acid will cause nerves to fire repeatedly, until they die from

exhaustion.

7. Processed free glutamic acid (MSG) kills brain cells. The free glutamic

acid ingested by laboratory animals that caused brain lesions and

neuroendocrine disorders was very often given in the form of the food

ingredient

" monosodium glutamate. " " Monosodium glutamate " is the name of a particular food

additive. Processed free glutamic acid (MSG) is the reactive component in

" monosodium glutamate, " just as processed free glutamic acid (MSG) is a

reactive

component in AuxiGro.

The glutamate industry research done in the 1970s that was submitted to the

EPA by the Auxein/Emerald BioAgriculture that pretended to find that

processed free glutamic acid is " safe, " has been long refuted by independent

scientists. Indeed, at the present time, neuroscientists attempting to develop

drugs

to block the toxic effects of free glutamic acid are using processed free

glutamic acid to selectively kill certain kinds of brain cells.

8. Processed free glutamic acid causes neuroendocrine disorders in maturing

animals that ingest processed free glutamic acid early in life.

9. Processed free glutamic acid causes learning disorders in maturing

animals that ingest processed free glutamic acid early in life.

10. Processed free glutamic acid crosses the placental barrier and causes

learning disabilities in animal offspring of dams that ingest it.

11. Processed free glutamic acid has access to the brain through the

blood-brain barrier, which is not impervious to the unregulated flow of

processed

free glutamic acid. The blood-brain barrier is immature at birth, and in some

cases continues to develop up to puberty. In certain areas called the

circumventricular organs, the blood barrier is never impervious to the

unregulated

flow of free glutamic acid. In addition, the blood-brain barrier is easily

damaged by such events as high fever, a blow to the head, drug use, stroke,

ingestion of processed free glutamic acid, and the normal process of aging.

12. The National Institutes of Health recognize glutamic acid as being

associated with addiction, stroke, epilepsy, degenerative disorders such as

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and ALS, brain trauma, neuropathic

pain,

schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression.

13. For years, free glutamic acid has been produced and used in food

additives with names such as monosodium glutamate, sodium caseinate, and

hydrolyzed

soy protein. In some people, the processed free glutamic acid in food

additives causes adverse reactions that include migraine headache, asthma,

atrial

fibrillation, tachycardia, nausea and vomiting, depression, and disorientation.

The processed free glutamic acid in prescription and non-prescription drugs,

food supplements, and cosmetics also causes adverse reactions in some

people.

There are badly flawed industry-sponsored studies that have pretended to

find that processed free glutamic acid does not cause adverse reactions.

Inappropriate procedures used by the glutamate industry have included limiting

subjects to people virtually guaranteed not to be sensitive to processed free

glutamic acid, and/or using processed free glutamic acid or other similarly

reactive substances in placebos as well as in test material. The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) has based its claim that processed free glutamic acid

causes only mild and transitory reactions on those badly flawed

industry-sponsored

studies.

14. According to the EPA, the food additive called " monosodium glutamate "

causes adverse reactions.

15. According to the FDA, the food additive " monosodium glutamate " contains

free glutamic acid.

16. According to the FDA, consumers frequently refer to all free glutamic

acid as " MSG. "

17. In reviewing the application of Auxein Corporation for use of processed

free glutamic acid in a spray to be applied to crops as they grow, the EPA

failed to conform to the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic

Act, which require, in part, that the EPA review any proposed action for

validity, completeness, reliability, and relationship to human risk. The EPA

also

ignored Executive Order 13045 which requires government agencies to consider

available information concerning the variability of the sensitivities of major

identifiable subgroups of consumers, including infants and children. For

example, Auxein Corporation sent the EPA 14 industry-sponsored toxicological

studies from the literature, all done in the 1970's, but failed to mention

hundreds of studies in the literature that refuted those 14 studies. For

example,

although processed free glutamic acid causes brain lesions and neuroendocrine

disorders in infant animals, this special hazard faced by infants was

ignored by Auxein Corporation. It would appear that Auxein Corporation

restricted

its consideration of " available information " to information made available by

the glutamate industry; and the EPA, even after having been sent abstracts

from other " available information, " has not challenged the Auxein Corporation

applications. A more complete discussion of the shortcomings of the EPA

approvals granted to Auxein Corporation has been submitted to the EPA.

18. Questions about the safety of spraying processed free glutamic acid on

plants and into the environment have been raised by the Truth in Labeling

Campaign and by individual consumers. The EPA has refused to address those

concerns. The EPA, and, in particular, EPA spokesperson Dr. Janet Andersen, has

failed to respond to allegations that in approving the spraying of processed

free glutamic acid, the EPA failed to consider the reliability, validity, and

completeness of the Auxein Corporation application or comply with Executive

Order 13045 entitled Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and

Safety Risks, except to say that the EPA had complied with executive order

13045. Moreover, while responding to letters that asked direct questions of the

EPA, Andersen failed to respond to most, if not all, of the direct questions

contained in those letters.

For those who are interested, we provide _detail of the EPA cover-up_

(http://www.msgfacts.net/Andersen.htm) as seen through the words of the EPA's

Dr.

Janet Andersen and the activities of the EPA's Dr. Carol Foster.

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