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 Amendment to Bill S1082
Purpose of the amendment:
The bill, S1082: The Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act, is hereby amended to eliminate any reference to the terms food or food ingredients, such that food and food ingredients will not be subject to any jurisdiction or control by the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration.
Intent of amendment:
To eliminate from the bill any possibility that food or food ingredients would be treated like drugs either for safety review purposes or for assessment of their efficacy. |
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| Proposed amendment to S1082:
"The bill, S1082, is hereby amended to eliminate any reference to the terms food or food ingredients within Subtitle B - Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration, such that food and food ingredients will not be subject to any jurisdiction or control by the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration."
Intent of amendment:
To eliminate from the bill any possibility that food or food ingredients would be treated like drugs either for safety review purposes or for assessment of their efficacy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Amendment to Bill S1082
Purpose of the amendment:
The bill, S1082: The Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act, is hereby amended to eliminate any reference to the terms food or food ingredients, such that food and food ingredients will not be subject to any jurisdiction or control by the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration.
Intent of amendment:
To eliminate from the bill any possibility that food or food ingredients would be treated like drugs either for safety review purposes or for assessment of their efficacy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ingredients lists don't include contaminants
There is no requirement for food ingredients lists to include the names of chemical contaminants, heavy metals, bisphenol-A, PCBs, perchlorate or other toxic substances found in the food. As a result, ingredients lists don't really list what's actually in the food, they only list what the manufacturer wants you to believe is in the food.
This is by design, of course. Requirements for listing food ingredients were created by a joint effort between the government and private industry (food corporations). |
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| Intent of amendment:
To eliminate from the bill any possibility that food or food ingredients would be treated like drugs either for safety review purposes or for assessment of their efficacy. It is a fundamental tenet of food and drug law that foods and food ingredients are presumed to be safe and have to be established to be adulterated only if they present a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury. |
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| Intent of amendment:
To eliminate from the bill any possibility that food or food ingredients would be treated like drugs either for safety review purposes or for assessment of their efficacy. It is a fundamental tenet of food and drug law that foods and food ingredients are presumed to be safe and have to be established to be adulterated only if they present a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury.
Sincerely,
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| It is vital that the terms "food" and "food ingredients" be removed from this legislation. There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of food and food ingredients -- which are governed by different laws. This bill authorizes the creation of a new regulatory category that enables the FDA and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to attack dietary supplements and functional foods. This problem in the wording can be corrected with this simple amendment -- so as to be sure this legislation is about drugs and drug safety only. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It is vital that the terms "food" and "food ingredients" be removed from this legislation. There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of food and food ingredients - which are governed by different laws. This bill authorizes, on pages 106-107, the creation of a new regulatory category that enables the FDA and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to attack dietary supplements and functional foods. This problem in the wording can be corrected with this simple amendment - so as to be sure this legislation is about drugs and drug safety only. |
| Intent of amendment: To eliminate from the bill any possibility that food or food ingredients would be treated like drugs either for safety review purposes or for assessment of their efficacy. It is a fundamental tenet of food and drug law that foods and food ingredients are presumed to be safe and have to be established to be adulterated only if they present a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury
I am in favor of the Dorgan amendment that enables Americans to get a fair price on prescription medication. |
Jack Challem
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 Three food ingredients to Always Avoid
Three common food ingredients should always be avoided. They are partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (the source of trans fats), interester-ified vegetable oils (sometimes called fully hydrogenated vegetable oils), and high-fructose corn syrup (a blend of sugars). As we explained in chapter 3, trans fats increase weight gain and promote diabetes, whereas high-fructose corn syrup boosts insulin levels and insulin resistance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can learn more about all the toxic effects of food ingredients, by the way, in my book Grocery Warning: http://www.truthpublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html )
So where is the FDA to warn us about all these cancer-causing chemicals in the products made in the USA? The agency is mysteriously silent. It seems completely unable to speak... unless of course it's to tout the latest "miracle" prescription drug that masks all the symptoms caused by the toxic chemicals put into the food in the first place.
Did you know that guacamole dips often contain no guacamole? |
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 Support legislative efforts to require the labeling of genetically modified food ingredients. I'm not aware of any such pending legislation that's anywhere close to a vote, but if such legislation appears on the horizon, you can count on NewsTarget to rally readers to the cause. Make sure you're a subscriber to receive our email alerts. Click here to subscribe (free).
4. Read the Center for Food Safety report on pharmaceutical rice. Click here to download the report now (PDF). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of food and food ingredients -- which are governed by different laws. This bill authorizes the creation of a new regulatory category that enables the FDA and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to attack dietary supplements and functional foods.
I am sure you and other Senators were not intending to create such concern among the 150 million Americans who rely on dietary supplements to assist their health, and this matter is easily corrected with a simple amendment. |
Jack Challem
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| Always Have These Ingredients On Hand
Certain food ingredients are important to so many different recipes that it makes sense to have them in your kitchen all the time. They include the following:
Have the Right Tools to Work With
You can't fix a car without a wrench, and you can't sew without a needle and thread. The same rule applies to your kitchen: you need the right tools to get the job done. |
| The Restaurant Landscape from Fast to Slow
As a general rule, fast-food restaurants, national chain restaurants, and neighborhood "greasy spoons" serve meals that contain large amounts of sugar, sugarlike carbs, and unhealthy trans fats, food ingredients that contribute to prediabetes and overweight. Chain restaurant menus are practically identical across the country, although minor accommodations may be made for regional tastes. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Certain food ingredients and processing agents are derived from GM bacteria, fungus, or yeast.
2. Even if the transgene is not found in the food, the GM process still carries risks.
3. The GM protein may be unhealthy, have altered properties or react with other compounds in unpredictable ways.
4. The gene insertion process might also disrupt normal gene expression of the microorganisms.
Food additives created from GM microorganisms pose health risks
Several enzymes, cooking agents, and other proteins used in food are created from genetically engineered bacteria, fungus, or yeast. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of food and food ingredients -- which are governed by different laws. This bill authorizes the creation of a new regulatory category that enables the FDA and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to attack dietary supplements and functional foods. This problem in the wording can be corrected with this simple amendment -- so as to be sure this legislation is about drugs and drug safety only. |
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 This research helps explain why high-fat diets that focus on dairy products, meat products, and processed foods are so strongly correlated with cancer and heart disease," said Mike Adams, author of Grocery Warning: How to Identify and Avoid Dangerous food ingredients. "Many superfoods perform best when consumed during a meal that has no fats," Adams said, "But don't forget to consume healthy, plant-based fats later. Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for a healthy heart. |
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 Note: I have absolutely no financial interest in any products mentioned in this article)
6) Avoid all cancer-causing food ingredients (like sodium nitrite), cosmetics (all popular brands), personal care products, home cleaning products, cigarettes, etc. Nearly everyone who has cancer gave it to themselves! You can avoid that by avoiding the things that promote cancer (like hair coloring chemicals, nail polish, chlorine pools, etc.)
7) Educate yourself. |
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| This article explores the most common deceptions used by food manufacturers to trick consumers with food ingredients lists. It also contains useful tips for helping consumers read such labels with the proper skepticism.
Deceiving consumers: Tricks of the food trade
If the Nutrition Facts section on food packaging list all the substances that go into a food product, how can they deceive consumers? Here are a few of the most common ways:
One of the most common tricks is to distribute sugars among many ingredients so that sugars don't appear in the top three. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Similarly, if common GM food ingredients are creating adverse reactions, the problems and their source may go undetected.
CC ' I ^he products of genetic engineering today JL are still at the level of a dinosaur technology. We use genes, which are foreign to a species, not knowing where they are inserted or what else will change in the whole chain from gene to protein.nl
—Cesare Gessler, The ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology it' I ^he default prediction for the impacts of JL expression ofa new gene (and its products) within a transgenic organism would . . . |
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| Requirements for listing food ingredients were created by a joint effort between the government and private industry (food corporations). In the beginning, food corporations didn't want to be required to list any ingredients at all. They claimed the ingredients were "proprietary knowledge" and that listing them would destroy their business by disclosing their secret manufacturing recipes. It's all nonsense, of course, since food companies primarily want to keep consumers ignorant of what's really in their products. |
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 Nutritional supplements, ingredients and product reviews
Foods, food ingredients, food marketing, food safety, etc.
Dangerous pharmaceuticals, side effects, FDA warnings, etc.
Feedlot cattle, meat production, agriculture, pesticides, etc.
Chemicals in the home, in foods, in products, in medicines
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 The talk focuses on nutrition secrets for preventing and reversing disease and will reveal dangerous food ingredients to avoid, the healing properties of selected fruits and vegetables, and many other nutritional topics for avoiding disease and maximizing both mental and physical health. Most of the information to be presented at the event remains unknown by most medical doctors and health care providers, and none of it is taught in medical school. |
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| It is a fundamental tenet of food and drug law that foods and food ingredients are presumed to be safe and have to be established to be adulterated only if they present a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Other researchers have pointed out that lycopene supplements may or may not give the desired effect—there's good reason to think these incredible plant compounds work best when found in their natural surroundings along with other food ingredients (like other carotenoids). That's another reason I like watermelon—it contains a nice supporting cast of other carotenoids and sources of vitamin A like beta-carotene and the less well-known beta-cryptoxanthin. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Body fat loss achieved by stimulation of thermogen-esis by a combination of bioactive food ingredients: a placebo-controlled, double-blind 8-week intervention in obese subjects. Int J Obes (Lond). 2006 Apr 25.
Diepvens K, Westerterp KR, Westerterp-Plantenga MS. Obesity and thermogenesis related to the consumption of caffeine, ephedrine, capsaicin and green tea. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Jan;292(l):R77-85.
Macho A et al. Non-pungent capsaicinoids from sweet pepper synthesis and evaluation of the chemopreventive and anticancer potential. Eur J Nutr. 2003 Jan;42( 1 ):2-9. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The first reform was food," and involved cleaning up food ingredients and shifting the way people think about meat. The second reform asked "Why does agriculture have to use so many toxic, synthetic, persistent, dangerous chemicals? Do we really need all that?" This led to the organic food standards. "In the third reform, we asked the same questions about skin care, cosmetics and body care products. Why do these products have to have so many objectionable ingredients? And that takes us to Consciousness in Cosmetics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We do many different exotic types of raw food bars that people make; different companies that are out there making Goji cacao bars or vanilla oat bars that are made out of raw food ingredients. We have a lot of that stuff. We also do a lot of distribution of information in the field of raw food.
Mike: You do a great job of getting information out. That's what I really admire about your work. It is not just about moving products or selling cases of product. You really have to have a passion for this and educate at the same time that you offer someone a product. |
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