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Health groups petition FDA to ban eight food flavors
The Hill ^ | June 10, 2015 | Lydia Wheeler

Posted on 06/11/2015 11:06:05 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Health groups are petitioning the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban eight synthetic flavors in food that are known carcinogens.

The petition, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), said the flavors, which have been used for over 40 years, are found in ice cream, candy, baked goods and beverages.

The petition asks FDA to revoke its 1964 approval that allowed seven of the eight flavorings to be used in food and overturn the industry’s 1974 self-approval of the eighth synthetic flavor, which they assert can be used under a loophole in the law for chemicals that are “generally recognized as safe.”

Health groups who joined NRDC on the petition include the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center for Food Safety, Consumers Union, Improving Kids’ Environment and the Center for Environmental Health, the Environmental Working Group and Dr. James Huff, the former associate director for chemical carcinogenesis at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences signed the petition.

Research by the National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program found that each of the eight flavors causes cancer in humans and animals, NRDC said.

“Consumers are vulnerable, the government isn’t doing its job and the food industry is calling the shots,” Erik Olson, director of NRDC’s Health Program said in a news release. “The FDA should be doing much more to ensure our food is safe, and that should start with obeying the law by banning these synthetic flavorings known to cause cancer in animals, rather than just continuing to let the food industry have its way.”

The flavors include Benzophenone, are also known as diphenylketone;Ethyl acrylate; Eugenyl methyl ether, also known as 4-allylveratrole or methyl eugenol; Myrcene, also known as 7-methyl-3-methylene-1,6-octadiene; Pulegone, also known as p-menth-4(8)-en-3-one; Pyridine; Styrene; and Trans,trans-2,4-hexadienal.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chemicals; flavoring; health; nannystate
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1 posted on 06/11/2015 11:06:05 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...

Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 06/11/2015 11:06:26 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Brian Moore was an exemplary cop. Let his conduct be the example for Baltimore police to follow.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Steyrene sounds really good.....


3 posted on 06/11/2015 11:09:34 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

you can have my 7-methyl-3-methylene-1 when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands...just not the same ring...


4 posted on 06/11/2015 11:10:14 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Eat real food.


5 posted on 06/11/2015 11:13:12 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What scary sounding chemical names. No description of what the flavor actually is, just scary sounding names. And no mention of how much of the product you would have to ingest and for how long before any harm.


6 posted on 06/11/2015 11:14:30 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The flavors include Benzophenone, are also known as diphenylketone;Ethyl acrylate; Eugenyl methyl ether, also known as 4-allylveratrole or methyl eugenol; Myrcene, also known as 7-methyl-3-methylene-1,6-octadiene; Pulegone, also known as p-menth-4(8)-en-3-one; Pyridine; Styrene; and Trans,trans-2,4-hexadienal.

Ummm....those are all chemicals. Not food flavors.

A food flavor is...bananna, bacon, cherry, chocolate, vanilla, etc...

7 posted on 06/11/2015 11:16:30 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I think they meant “flavorings.”


8 posted on 06/11/2015 11:20:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Brian Moore was an exemplary cop. Let his conduct be the example for Baltimore police to follow.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Then quit giving them to animals.


9 posted on 06/11/2015 11:21:41 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Organic Panic

eugenol is clove


10 posted on 06/11/2015 11:45:31 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When the Center for Science in the Public Interest is involved, there is often a hefty dose of BS involved.


11 posted on 06/11/2015 11:49:14 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
All those 'food flavorings' are chemicals.

In fact, everything is a chemical, including water.

You can't get away from it.

/johnny

12 posted on 06/11/2015 12:02:47 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
All those 'food flavorings' are chemicals.

Agreed...and I knew someone of you caliber would pick up on that and take me to task the moment I posted it.

What I should have posted was 'artificial chemical compounds' rather than just 'chemicals'.

13 posted on 06/11/2015 12:05:35 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Some of these are nothing more than odd essential oils distilled from plants. Most are not used in food. This is mostly just crap science as carcinogenisis is only at high doses in rats with extrapolation to humans at low doses.


14 posted on 06/11/2015 12:11:58 PM PDT by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center for Food Safety, Consumers Union, Improving Kids’ Environment and the Center for Environmental Health, the Environmental Working Group and Dr. James Huff, the former associate director for chemical carcinogenesis at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences signed the petition.

Looking at this list of supporters I am going to call fraud.

15 posted on 06/11/2015 12:13:41 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
nanny state ping

I have no trouble with governments on the STATE level banning non-food ingredients from being in foods.

16 posted on 06/11/2015 12:34:11 PM PDT by grania
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Organic Panic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzophenone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_acrylate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_eugenol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrcene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulegone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyridine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene

http://www.thegoodscentscompany.com/data/rw1026221.html

Yep. That’s some mighty fine eatin right there! How DARE ANYONE even consider infringing on my right as a food manufacturer to douse the crap I sell with even worse crap like those DELICIOUS SYNTHETIC chemicals!


17 posted on 06/11/2015 12:39:02 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

I want to be able to order them on my Ice Cream Cone like sprinkle candy.

MMmmm I would like a Medium Vanilla Cone with Triple Ethyl Methyl Styrene Pyridine topping. Oh and a 2 Liter Diet Coke to wash it down.


18 posted on 06/11/2015 12:56:08 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: catnipman

I know a person that does Inspections for the State Dept. of Ag. and if you knew the stuff produce gets soaked, sprayed and coated with to clean and preserve it you would not go near it.


19 posted on 06/11/2015 1:00:27 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Chemicals?

DHMO is a chemical, too.

It's deadly! It's found in industrial degreasers!

Why, oh Dear Heavens, WHY do we allow them to put it in ice cream? Childrens' Ice Cream!!!!

It needs to be banned!

20 posted on 06/11/2015 1:05:42 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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