FDA Under Increasing Pressure to Approve Stevia, Lift Import Ban
By Mike Adams, October 24, 2008 | Key concepts: Stevia, FDA and Sweeteners
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Since 1991, the FDA has been seizing stevia imported into the United States. There's no logical reason for it, other than to protect the aspartame racket. Now, the American Botanical Council is urging the FDA to lift the ban. Momentum appears to be building for the FDA to finally GRAS-approve stevia, which would unleash a new wave of stevia-sweetened cereals, diet sodas and other sweetened foods and beverages.
From Foodnavigator-usa.com: In the upcoming issue of HerbalGram, ABC’s publication, Mark Blumenthal, ABC’s founder and executive director, calls FDA’s 1991 Import Alert on stevia for use as a food additive "unreasonable and illogical" given the "current scientific and medical information supporting the safety of stevia when consumed in relatively small amounts in foods to give them a sweet taste."... more
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