FDA Urged to Ban 8 Dyes Used In Foods,

[Guest guest]

FDA says it has seen no evidence that food dyes can cause harm. I

believe the FDA would tell a lie if the truth would do. They not

only know that it can cause harm but their own FDA toxicologist, Dr.

Jacqueline Verrett, wrote a book and exposed the FDA calling

attention to these dyes.

 

Jacqueline Verrett, Ph.D., is the FDA toxicologist, who told

Congress that all aspartame studies were built on a foundation of

sand and should be thrown out. She wrote a book in l974 called

"Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health". Used copies are still

available on the Internet. At that time she had worked 15 years for

the FDA. Ralph Nader wrote about the book, "This is a soberly

gripping book by a courageous FDA scientist and a lucid consumer

writer. The story they tell about the silent violence in your food -

how it got there and the FDA's abysmal lack of courage to make the

food companies obey the law - makes you want to do something about

it. As "Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health" points out, you can

help do it as a tough and active citizen."

 

Dr. Verrett's book is about additives. She discusses the colors

which are simply cosmetic and lets you know there is no reason for

them to be on the market. Let's take RED 2 in Chapter 5 titled: The

Abortion Pill You May Not Want. "You might have thought the FDA had

no forewarning that FD & C Red No. 2, the official name for our most

widely used food dye, which gets into practically everything, could

possibly be dangerous. That was the official "reaction" when it was

learned in 1970 that Russian Scientists had published two new studies

incriminating amaranth, another name for the dye. One Russian study

showed that the red dye caused cancer in rats; the other was the

first to show that the dye caused birth defects, stillbirths,

sterility and early fetal deaths in rats given the dye in exceedingly

small amounts. In fact, the Russians found a danger to rat fetuses

that were fed only 1.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight, which

is the exact dose established by the World Health organization as the

"safe dose" for humans - the acceptable daily intake, or ADI, as it

is called. In other words, there was no margin of safety at all."

 

Consider how long this has been known. Dr. Verrett writes a lot

about the food dyes. She says on page 17: "First, the good news:

The federal government, mainly the FDA of the Department of Health,

Education and Welfare and to a lesser extent the US Department of

Agriculture, is empowered to keep your food safe for consumption and

free of dangerous chemicals. Now the bad news: They do nothing of

the kind. As a result our food supply is permeated with chemicals of

dubious safety."

 

Dr. Verrett says MSG is still widely used in all kinds of processed

foods, though it has been shown to cause brain damage in infant

animals. Of interest is the

Liverpool study.

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The researchers at the University of Liverpool examined the toxic

effects on nerve cells in the laboratory of using a combination of

four common food additives - aspartame, MSG and the artificial

colourings brilliant blue and quinoline yellow. Findings were

published in Toxicological Sciences. This study showed that when

mouse nerve cells were exposed to MSG and brilliant blue or aspartame

and quinoline yellow the additives stopped the nerve cells growing

and interfered with proper signalling systems. So why aren't they

all banned? This is how they are consumed in the average diet, in

combination.

 

Dr. Verrett said to imagine how much easier it would be if the

government would just out with the truth. It would end all that

intrigue, all the time-consuming hard work trying to cover up

mistakes, juggling scientific data to make it come out right, always

assuming a defensive posture, evading responsibility, playing footsie

with the industry, assuring everyone that no matter what a few

die-hard scientists say and do, there is no need for concern, that

our food is the safest in the world and there's not a shred of

evidence that anyone has ever been harmed by eating an

additive. Verrett said if some food additives were regulated as

drugs they would be forbidden - except by prescription, and then

forced to carry warnings - especially to pregnant women.

 

We have deadly aspartame on the market which in reality is a drug

masquerading as an additive. It's addictive because of the methanol

which is classified as a narcotic and causes chronic methanol

poisoning which effects the dopamine system of the brain. This

causes the addiction. Because it damages the mitochondria or life of

the cell it interacts with virtually all drugs and vaccines. It is

literally a chemical poison which causes polychemical sensitivity

syndrome. That's why Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, says the

reactions to aspartame are not allergic but toxic like arsenic and

cyanide. Do we really need all those additives? Verrett said its

surprising that at the turn of the century - a time of little

refrigeration, heat sterilization or freezing, and of slow

transportation - when you would have thought we needed additives, at

least as preservatives, they were soundly rejected by both government

and industry. H. W. Wiley, chief of the USDA's Bureau of Chemistry,

the predecessor of the present FDA, wrote in his annual report for

1908: "A large number of prominent manufacturers during the year

entirely abandoned the use of any kind of preservatives and openly

announced their adhesion to the doctrine that drugs should not be

placed in foods. Although there have been no suits brought so far

involving the addition of chemical preservatives to food, the

practice has been so openly discredited by so many first class

manufacturers as to warrant the statement that the cause of pure

food, in so far as chemical preservatives are concerned, has been

firmly established."

 

One might think by outlawing dyes that are harmful the food

industry is at a disadvantage? Dr. Verrett said in her book in

l974 a scientist at the Department of Agriculture has estimated that

of the seven hundred chemicals now used for flavoring, about thirty

could accomplish the same thing. Think of how many there are today.

She continues that even in preservation, the area where most of us

would consider additives useful, there's doubt that all are really

necessary. Dr. Jacobson noted in testimony in 1972 that some makes

of vegetable oils, potato chips, shortening and peanuts add BHA and

BHT (preservatives) to their products, while their competitors do

not. Consider what Dr. Verrett discussed, "For Whose Benefit - Theirs

or Ours?" She said: "Given a choice - which we can exercise only

through political power - would we really want all those additives in

our food? How much do the chemicals benefit us? And how much do

they benefit the foodmakers? If we had to take a dangerous drug, we

would want to know its potential benefit compared with the risk. But

with food additives we often take risks for little or nothing. The

benefit - risk ratio for food chemicals often boils down to a great

big health risk to you and a great big economic benefit to industry."

 

Heroine Dr. Jacqueline Verrett who exposed what the FDA always knew

and disregarded died after exposing deadly aspartame in the l987

Congressional Record, but her words live on. The study sponsored by

Food Standards in the UK showed additives cause behavioral

problems. The FDA, the Fatal Drugs Allowed folks, have ignored 100

independent scientific peer reviewed studies that condemn aspartame

as a deadly poison. They also ignore the studies on dyes and lie about it.

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International (warning the world off aspartame)

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

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

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Aspartame Medical Text: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

www.sunsentpress.com H. J. Roberts, M.D.,

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock,

M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com

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

Aspartame Documentary: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv

MSG web site, www.truthinlabeling.org

 

 

 

Boston.com

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

 

 

FDA urged to ban 8 dyes used in food

 

By Bloomberg News | June 4, 2008

 

WASHINGTON - The United States should ban eight food dyes, used in

products including

< http://finance.boston.com/boston?Page=QUOTE & Ticker=GIS> General Mills

Inc.'s Lucky Charms cereal, because of links to hyperactivity and

other disruptive behavior in children, a health advocacy group said.

 

The Center for Science in the Public Interest said yesterday it

petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to outlaw coloring listed

on ingredient labels under names such as Blue 2 and Red 40.

 

Studies over three decades have shown that some children's behaviors

are worsened by the dyes, whose use has been rising, according to the

center. The FDA says it hasn't seen evidence the food coloring has

caused harm. The dyes can simulate the color of fruits or vegetables

and are often used in candy, soda, and snack foods aimed at children.

 

"The continued use of artificial food dyes is the secret shame of the

food industry and the cops in Washington that are supposed to be

protecting the public from unhealthy ingredients," said Michael F.

Jacobson, executive director of the Washington-based center.

 

The FDA said in a brochure posted on its website, dated November

2004, that there was no evidence linking food coloring to

hyperactivity. The agency is unaware of any information since then to

change its position, said a spokeswoman in an e-mail.

 

"Although this hypothesis was popularized in the 1970s,

well-controlled studies conducted since then have produced no

evidence that food additives cause hyperactivity or learning

disabilities in children," according to the agency's brochure.

 

Products containing the dyes include

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Inc.'s guacamole flavor dip, which gets its "greenish" color from

Yellow 5, Yellow 6, and Blue 1 rather than from avocados, according

to the center, which wants to ban each of those dyes. The "blue bits"

in Aunt Jemima blueberry waffles, made by a company owned by

Blackstone Group LP, are blue because of Red 40 and Blue 2, not

blueberries, according to the center.

 

The group also wants the FDA to ban Green 3, Orange B, and Red 3.

Many of the dyes are produced in China and India, according to the center.

 

The center's petition urges the FDA to require a warning label on

foods with artificial dyes while it considers the request to ban them.

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