July 24, 1998
Article and Press Release from DOUGB100:
A product containing a substantial amount of processed free glutamic
acid>(MSG) has been approved for use as a "growth enhancer" spray for
use on
agricultural products. Approximately 30 per cent of the product
is MSG. The
action is summarized in the press release that follows.
MSG is known to trigger migraine headache, tachycardia, arrhythmia,
seizures,
asthma, nausea and vomiting, hives, skin rash, anxiety attacks, depression
and
much, much more in people who have become sensitive to it. It
causes gross
obesity and learning disorders in laboratory animals that ingest it
when
young. You can read about what it is, what it does, and where
it's hidden IN
food on our Web site: http://www.truthinlabeling.org
But now that spraying
MSG ON agricultural products as they grow has been approved, ANY fresh
food
may have some residual MSG on it, and processed food made from fresh
fruit or
vegetables may have MSG in it, too. Baby food, largely
free of MSG since
the late 1970's, will now have MSG in it. Processed food will
now have more
MSG in it than it did before. And there may be MSG residue on
every tomato,
cucumber, strawberry, leaf of lettuce, or peanut that you eat, as well
as on
every other fresh fruit, grain or vegetable.
We think you should be concerned. This is a new EPA (U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency) approval, effective February 6, 1998. We are
asking that
the approval be rescinded. Being told by the EPA that it is OUR
responsibility to demonstrate that residue from spraying MSG on produce
while
it's growing is a potential health hazard, and interpreting that to
mean that
the EPA will not look into the matter without extreme pressure, we
have
provided them more than sufficient material to demonstrate the MSG
places
humans at risk. We have also written to the producer, Auxein
Corporation,
informing them that their product is potentially toxic, and asking
them to
withdraw it from the market.
But if no one lets the EPA know they don't want MSG sprayed
on food, the approval won't be rescinded. And unless the producers,
who must
see millions of dollars in profits down the road, really didn't know
the
product is harmful, or is scared silly by the threat of potential law
suits,
they might not be the least bit concerned. Whether or not you
think that
ou,
your parents, your children, your grandchildren or your animals
(where
reactions are most often manifested as skin rash) are sensitive to
MSG, we
can't believe that anyone would want it sprayed on their food while
it's
growing.
If you think it's wrong to spray MSG on fruit and vegetable crops, please
register your concern by contacting Dr. Lynn Goldman at the EPA at
the
address
or numbers below; by forwarding a copy of this e-mail to everyone you
know;
and by sending a copy of the press release to each of your local papers.
(Advertisers and boards of directors of the larger papers seem to discourage
articles that criticize MSG.) Dr. Goldman can be reached as follows:
Lynn Goldman, M.D.
Assistant Administrator
for Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202/260-2902
Fax: 202/260-1847
E-mail c/o Douglas Parsons: parsons.douglas@epamail.epa.gov
If you would like additional information, please call or e-mail.
Surface
mail
will not be as efficient.
Jack Samuels
619/481-9333 through July 29
312/642-9333 otherwise
adandjack@aol.com
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CONTACT: Jack L. Samuels
(619) 481-9333
adandjack@aol.com
http://www.truthinlabeling.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MSG SPRAYED ON CROPS
July 22, 1998 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
been
asked
to rescind a recent action that allows processed free glutamic acid
(MSG) to
be sprayed on vegetation, including growing fruits and vegetables.
In a
separate letter, dated July 22, 1998, Auxein Corporation, Lansing,
Michigan,
has been asked to withdraw their product, Auxigro WP Plant Metabolic
Primer
(Auxigro), from the market immediately, and to notify farmers to stop
using
the product.
Auxigro, which contains approximately 30% MSG, may be sprayed, at times
by
airplane, on crops of snap beans, lettuce, peanuts, tomatoes, and potatoes.
It's use will soon be expanded to other crops, unless it's use is stopped.
It is acknowledged that sprayed fruits and vegetables that come to market
may
contain residual amounts of free glutamic acid. There is no reason
to
believe
that the product will not also affect groundwater and drinking water.
Concern was expressed by the Truth in Labeling Campaign (TLC) and its
president, Jack L. Samuels, that the MSG residual on treated fruits
and
vegetables poses a danger to humans, farm animals, and wild life.
TLC is a
nonprofit organization concerned with undisclosed use of MSG in food.
According to Samuels "The millions of humans who suffer adverse reactions
to
processed free glutamic acid (MSG), particularly those who suffer life-
threatening and/or debilitating reactions, and who react to minute
amounts of
the substance, may be exposed daily to undeclared amounts of the very
substance that can kill or debilitate them."
The EPA's action has exempted glutamic acid from the requirement of
a
tolerance on all raw agricultural commodities, allowing the amount
of MSG
residue on fruits and vegetables to be unlimited (Sec. 180.1187 - Code
of
Federal Regulations) .
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