Interesting fact about Artificial Flavors in our food- Senomyx

[Guest guest]

Thank you Vita, I've been seeing this. For the lists, be alerted

folks. This is why I tell people do not use anything that says

artificial and natural flavors. This umbrella of flavors means "we

have something you wouldn't like to use and we're hiding it from you

so you won't know". This did not require FDA approval and today FDA

approval doesn't mean anything anyway. Take a drug like Ambien CR,

FDA approved, which I used and got optic neuritis. With all the

complaints a competent FDA that wasn't Big Pharma's Washington Branch

office and cared about safe food and drugs would immediately take it

off the market. The FDA simply told the company to use stronger

warnings. In other words, let them know they can lose their sight or

die, like four people in the UK. You have to consider you have no

protector like their own FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told

Congress in l985: "If the FDA violates the law who is left to

protect the public?" Today we are on our own. The FDA is simply

there for what they can get from the drug industry and allows

dangerous drugs and additives on the market. If scientific peer

reviewed research comes out showing something is dangerous like

aspartame they ignore it or rebut. In the case of aspartame they

have ignored over 100 studies. If a product makes the news the FDA

says they will "probe" and like other dangerous products ignore the issue.

 

You see the companies involved below, so you know to immediately

boycott them. Secondly, this is a time in history when you must go

back to scratch and not used processed foods. They are no longer safe.

 

Be warned Senomyx is now in your food under artificial

flavors. Don't ever buy a product that has them. If you see a

product with a bunch of names you can't pronounce or you don't know

what they are, don't put them in your mouth. As Dr. Roberts says,

"When in doubt throw it out".

 

Read on about Senomyx. Let your friends know its best to be safe

than sorry. New campaign - go back to scratch.

 

It's time to write Congress more letters against the FDA. They don't

even follow the laws. I wrote a petition for ban of aspartame and

the law requires 180 days to answer. It's been 6 years. The

amendment on an imminent health hazard should be answered in 10 to 14

days. This was filed in October. As their own FDA toxicologist,

Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, wrote in her book, the FDA needs to be replaced.

 

Also, Dr. Russell Blaylock has an excellent newsletter that will give

you good tips, www.russellblaylockmd.com I've d for years.

 

Regards,

Betty

www.mpwhi.com,www.dorway.com,www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com, scroll down to banners

 

 

At 03:37 PM 4/29/2008, Vita Canalungo wrote:

> Here we go again. I found this to be quite interesting. A chemical

> compound that will alter our taste buds. That's right, our taste buds.

>

> No more tasting sour, sweet or the real flavors of our food. Instead, food

> manufactures have decided that they will regulate our taste buds by fooling

> our brain. So now we get to have others fool our brain into believe

> something is sweet when it's really not. Well, guess what? This chemical

> compound is already being added to our food supply without our knowledge.

>

> My goodness, what's next? It's becoming more and more clear that the

> processed foods offered in grocery stores will ultimately be nothing more

> than a bunch of chemicals made to taste like food. And this is supposed to

> be safe and healthy?

>

> Please beware and buy organic. We need to tell these food manufactures

> that we don't want their "junk for profit"!

>

> Please inform others by passing this on.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Vita

>

> ===================================

> 'Secretive' Chemicals Being Hidden in Food Under 'Artificial Flavors' Label

> by Jennifer McKinley (Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/z022982.html)

> You Thought MSG Was Bad? At least they admit that it's in there... well,

> mostly. 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.

>

> This article has been especially hard to compose. "Why?", you may ask. There

> is simply not much information to be found on the subject. It has taken

> weeks of internet research to uncover the smidgeon of information that has

> been acquired.

>

> A relatively young company, Senomyx, may be responsible for the sodium and

> sugar levels falling in your favorite grocery store item. How are they doing

> this without affecting the taste? The truth is, they may be putting

> chemicals into your food right now without you even realizing it and without

> telling you.

>

> And guess what? They don't have to.

>

> 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, but the foods

> will retain the same level of sweetness or saltiness when they touch the

> tongue by fooling your brain.

>

> All of the companies, although admitting the exclusive contracting rights,

> decline to identify which foods and beverages the chemical additives have

> been or will be added to.

>

> These chemical compounds are not required to be listed separately on food

> labels. On the contrary, they will be lobbed under the umbrella of

> "artificial flavors" which is already found on most food labels.

>

> The foods that seem to be most in jeopardy of an insurrection of these new

> chemicals: soups, juices (fruit and vegetable), ice cream, and sauces.

>

> "We are helping companies clean up their labels," said Kent Snyder, chief

> executive of Senomyx.

>

> Mark Zoller, Senomyx's chief scientist, says that his company has used the

> human genome sequence and identified hundreds of taste receptors. Senomyx's

> chemical compounds enhance those receptors to heighten the taste of salt or

> sugar. Under this premise, they go on to claim that their newly added

> chemicals are completely safe because they will be used in tiny quantities

> of less than one part per million whereas artificial sweeteners are used in

> 200-500 parts per million. This fact alone allows them to forgo the rigorous

> FDA approval process when introducing new food additives into the

> marketplace. Attaining the status of GRAS (generally recognized as safe)

> from the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association for their most

> advanced product that replaces MSG, took this fledgling company less than an

> 18 month time frame by introducing a safety study of rats conducted for 3

> months.

>

> 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."

>

> After pouring a total of 30 million dollars into research and development,

> the companies that have invested into Senomyx's products have been

> secretive, to say the least, about their involvement within the company.

> Some, like Kraft, have declined to divulge any specifics regarding their

> relationship with Senomyx but instead stated that Kraft was committed "to

> reducing the sugar and salt levels in many products."

>

> Nestle and Coca Cola declined to comment. I think silence says it all.

>

> References:

>

> (http://www.senomyx.com/collaborations/)

>

> (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12053)

>

> ((http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/busin...)

>

> ((http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2005/Senomy...)

>

> ((http://www.ucsf.edu/synapse/content/200...)