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| (ATT) The Rivers Run | Dec 15 2011, 08:37 PM Post #1 |
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FDA to Diamond Foods: “Walnuts Are Drugs” Just recently I posted about the Feds crashing a Kansas winery to seize the illegal contraband (“drugs”) being produced by the company: elderberry wine. Come to find out that prior to that the FDA had gone after Diamond Foods for its claims that its walnuts are good for overall health. Here is the letter sent from the FDA to Diamond Foods. A snippet: Based on claims made on your firm’s website, we have determined that your walnut products are promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs because these products are intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease. This part of the FDA letter is gut-busting: The back of your product label also bears the following statement: “The omega-3 in walnuts can help you get the proper balance of fatty acids your body needs for promoting and maintaining heart health. In fact, according to the Food and Drug Administration, supportive but not conclusive research shows that eating 1.5 oz of walnuts per day, as part of a low saturated fat and low cholesterol diet, and not resulting in increased caloric intake, may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Please refer to nutrition information for fat content and other details about the nutritional profile of walnuts.” Although FDA exercises enforcement discretion over the last two sentences of this statement, which meet the criteria for a qualified health claim for walnuts and coronary heart disease, the last two sentences read in conjunction with the first sentence makes the entire statement an unauthorized health claim. An article by William Faloon in Life Extension magazine (he’s a co-founder of the foundation) points out that “the FDA has no problem allowing the Frito-Lay® website to state the following” about its “heart healthy” snacks: “Frito-Lay® snacks start with real farm-grown ingredients. You might be surprised at how much good stuff goes into your favorite snack. Good stuff like potatoes, which naturally contain vitamin C and essential minerals. Or corn, one of the world’s most popular grains, packed with thiamin, vitamin B6, and phosphorous—all necessary for healthy bones, teeth, nerves and muscles. “And it’s not just the obvious ingredients. Our all-natural sunflower, corn and soybean oils contain good polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, which help lower total and LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol and maintain HDL ‘good’ cholesterol levels, which can support a healthy heart. Even salt, when eaten in moderation as part of a balanced diet, is essential for the body.” You can see it for yourself on the Frito-Lay website. A few years ago, the Life Extension foundation covered the FDA’s attack on the cherry industry for stating that the fruit contained beneficial anti-oxidants. Twenty-nine companies were ordered by the FDA to stop making health claims regarding their cherries, otherwise the FDA would designate their cherries as drugs, meaning the FDA would have to raid the warehouses and seize the untested drugs. Meanwhile, the FDA has allowed General Mills to put this on its boxes of processed carbohydrate-sodium mix (known as Cheerios): http://beforeitsnews.com/story/832/763/FDA_to_Diamond_Foods:_Walnuts_Are_Drugs.html |
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| yass | Dec 15 2011, 09:35 PM Post #2 |
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| luckycharm | Dec 16 2011, 08:30 AM Post #3 |
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Spot on. |
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| yass | Dec 27 2011, 07:37 PM Post #4 |
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Just ran across this. Frito-Lay sued for labeling its GMO-filled snacks as “All Natural” December 20, 2011  By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Less than a year after Frito-Lay announced plans to make half their products without “any artificial or synthetic ingredients,” the $13 billion company was sued last week in federal court for fraudulently marketing the snacks that contain genetically modified ingredients. Somehow, “artificial” and “synthetic” doesn’t include “genetically modified” in Frito’s mind. In its April 2011 “Seed-to-Shelf” disclosure campaign, Frito-Lay promised to inform consumers about each individual snack’s ingredients, even setting up an app for smartphone users to swipe the product’s barcode and read about it. Ann Mukherjee, Frito-Lay’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer, gushed: “What better way to share the story behind Frito-Lay snacks than by giving consumers a look inside our Flavor Kitchen to see first-hand the all natural ingredients and real foods that inspire the products we make?” Real foods? All natural? Even Monsanto defines genetically modified organisms as unnatural, which the lawsuit quoted: “Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) – Plants or animals that have had their genetic makeup altered to exhibit traits that are not naturally theirs.” The World Health Organization agrees, defining GMOs as “organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally.” Read more at http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/frito-lay-sued-for-labeling-its-gmo-filled-snacks-as-all-natural/
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| Sewing Light | Jan 29 2012, 01:20 PM Post #5 |
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 I love Fritos and thought it was the only safe junk food left. Three ingredients. Corn, salt, oil. Now they mucked it up.
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