Fwd: Yogurt: FDA Plays Hide the Poison, It's None of your Business Anyway! - Information needed to write:

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>Fred & Barbara Metzler

>Re: Yogurt: FDA Plays Hide the Poison,

> It's None of your Business Anyway!

> " Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. " <bettym19

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>This is INSANE. What does the National Yogurt Association think?

>We need to comment with the Docket No.

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>[Docket No. FDA–2000–P–0126] (formerly

>Docket No. 2000P–0685)

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>Go to:

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>http://www.regulations.gov.

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>Follow the

>instructions for submitting comments.

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>or, go to

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>DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

>HUMAN SERVICES

>Food and Drug Administration

>21 CFR Part 131

>[Docket No. FDA–2000–P–0126] (formerly

>Docket No. 2000P–0685)

>Milk and Cream Products and Yogurt

>Products; Proposal to Revoke the

>Standards for Lowfat Yogurt and

>Nonfat Yogurt and to Amend the

>Standard for Yogurt

>AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

>HHS.

>ACTION: Proposed rule.

>SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

>Administration (FDA) is proposing to

>revoke its regulations on the standards

>of identity for lowfat yogurt and nonfat

>yogurt and amend the standard of

>identity for yogurt in numerous

>respects. This action is in response, in

>part, to a citizen petition submitted by

>the National Yogurt Association (the

>NYA). FDA tentatively concludes that

>this action will promote honesty and

>fair dealing in the interest of consumers

>and, to the extent practicable, will

>achieve consistency with existing

>international standards of identity for

>yogurt.

>DATES: Submit comments by March 31,

>2009.

>ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,

>identified by Docket No. FDA–2000–P–

>0126, by any of the following methods:

>Electronic Submissions

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>following ways:

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>• FAX: 301–827–6870.

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>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ritu

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>On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. wrote:

>

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>>

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>>FDA PLAYS HIDE THE POISON, ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS ANYWAY!

>>

>>The National Yogurt Association (NYA) has

>>petitioned our FDA (Fatal Drugs Allowed)

>>bureaucracy to ditch the requirement that

>>chemicals added to food must be identified by

>>name on the label. NYA wants to conceal their

>>use of aspartame, otherwise called NutraSweet

>>and Equal, from consumers. Like maybe they'll

>>call it natural flavor or some other imaginative alias.

>>

>>

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>>Now why would they want to do that? Because

>>smart consumers know about aspartame toxicity

>>and avoid it like the plague. (It is.) A few

>>days ago Equal producer Merisant filed for

>>bankruptcy, reporting assets of $331 million

>>against $561 million debt. Their submarine is $230,000,000 under water.

>>

>>

>>

>>Once aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal was the

>>billion-dollar queen of sweeteners. One that

>>the FDA faithfully refused to approve for 16

>>years from the date it was created. Don

>>Rumsfeld ran G. D. Searle, the company making

>>it. He was Reagan's buddy, so hours after

>>Ronnie was inaugurated, in the middle of the

>>night, the honest FDA Commissioner was fired.

>>Next morning stooge Arthur Hayes was appointed

>>who approved aspartame over the objections of

>>FDA's scientific board, then bailed out into

>>the arms of NutraSweet's PR firm as a

>>consultant on a ten year contract for $1000.00

>>a day. He sold his soul for $365 million dollars.

>>

>>

>>

>>Three congressional hearings and countless

>>research reports and papers by renowned doctors

>>confirm the deadly chemistry of aspartame, a

>>multi-potential carcinogen concluded the

>>Ramazzini Institute after a 3-year study on

>>1,800 rats. FDA listed 92 adverse reactions,

>>including death, in their report on 10,000

>>consumer complaints volunteered by American

>>consumers. Even the National Soft Drink

>>Association petitioned FDA to deny aspartame

>>approval, which objections were published in

>>the 5/7/1985 Congressional Record, Senate.

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>>

>>The Jan.15, 2009 Federal Register, pg 2446-7 notes:

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>> With respect to NYA's recommended provision

>> that would permit yogurt to contain

>> non-nutritive sweeteners and be labeled simply

>> " yogurt " without a specific declaration of the

>> non-nutritive sweetener in the name of the

>> food, comments were varied.... several

>> consumers and at least one State government

>> agency strongly opposed this provision

>> ... that removal of this identification would

>> be misleading to consumers and could prove

>> harmful to those individuals with Phenylketonuria.

>>

>>

>>

>>Next comes consumer and dairy farmer objections

>>to the NYA proposal that cheaper, inferior and

>>imported ( from China?) ingredients be OK'd in

>>what they'll call yogurt. You see, when they

>>make it cheaper they get richer, and who do you

>>think you are to be told its just phony toxic

>>stuff called " yogurt " , not the real thing.

>>

>>

>>

>>The FDA concludes this action will promote

>>honesty and fair dealing. How fair is hiding

>>poison and concealing trash in your

>>food? Consider exporting and misleading other

>>countries as well. The public has to learn to

>>only buy organic yogurt - know what's in it.

>>

>> Please immediately read the Federal Register

>> at this URL and write. We can't allow this to

>> happen. It must be stopped immediately and

>> there is little time. We only have until March.

>>

>>

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KETS/98fr/E9-736.pdf

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>>Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

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