Posted on 04/11/2013 10:57:01 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Two powerful dairy organizations, The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), are petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to allow aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to be added milk and other dairy products without a label.
The FDA currently allows the dairy industry to use “nutritive sweeteners” including sugar and high fructose corn syrup in many of their products. Nutritive sweeteners are defined as sweeteners with calories.
This petition officially seeks to amend the standard of identification for milk, cream, and 17 other dairy products like yogurt, sweetened condensed milk, sour cream, and others to provide for the use of any “safe and suitable sweetener” on the market
They claim that aspartame and other artificial sweeteners would promote healthy eating and is good for school children.
According to the FDA notice issued this week:
IDFA and NMPF state that the proposed amendments would promote more healthful eating practices and reduce childhood obesity by providing for lower-calorie flavored milk products. They state that lower-calorie flavored milk would particularly benefit school children who, according to IDFA and NMPF, are more inclined to drink flavored milk than unflavored milk at school.
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But don’t try to sell raw milk or we will toss your fanny into the clink.
Well, it would be nice to know if something has aspartame.
Many product regulations are horse manure, including the ban on raw milk, but the truth in labeling laws are reasonable. Products should be truthfully labeled with all ingredients that are added.
this stuff gives me migraines
/johnny
I can lower seizure threshold in epileptics. My daughter avoids it because she doesn’t want to bring on seizures. I would be very upset if it was not labeled.
I agree and assumed they were. How stupid of me to trust the government on anything.
Tasty neurotoxins ping
Which means our criminal government will have no problem with it.
It's only individuals selling raw dairy products to knowledgeable customers that they want to stop.
The big-government/big-corporate criminal complex doesn't cotton to competition.
If you put something in the milk, put it on the label. Don't try to sneak it in. I'll have to check at the store to see if chocolate milk lists sugar and chocolate (and the rest of the chemistry set they probably add) or if they have been able to sneak that in. I even want vitamin D listed as an ingredient if they add it to milk.
Not just no - *HELL NO*!
I guess allowing Monsanto to poison the grain chain wasn’t enough.
We are running out of areas where parts of the (no longer “our”) government serve a positive purpose.
I just checked my milk. It just says they don’t use artificial growth hormones. I hadn’t even thought about that. What is really in our food???
Apparently not.
ALL “sugar substitutes” are poison.
NutraSweet, Splenda, sucralose, whatever.
They’re all chemical death.
As I have an adverse reaction to this chemical, if it were in a product and not listed on the label, even though I hate lawyers with a passion, I would sue immediately.
It might be a great product for other people and I have no problem with its use, I just want to know if I should avoid a product with this sweetener inside.
Which begs the question: if you genetically engineer the cow to produce aspartame and chocolate, can you just call the product "milk" on the bottle?
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