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Ellyn
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PETITION: Don't Nuke our Supplements!
 Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:46 am
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PETITION: Don't Nuke our Supplements!
Please sign petition and spread the word at:
Health Freedom Foundation
http://ga4.org/campaign/dont_nuke_supplements
The American Association for Health Freedom opposes the irradiation of dietary supplements and supports the American Herbal Products Association letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to request that the agency deny a food additive petition that would allow the use of ionizing irradiation on dietary supplements and dietary ingredients. AAHF will be submitting our own letter to the FDA supporting AHPA’s position and providing our own comments.
We feel that if there was ever an approach that could, in a single swoop, lessen the potency of herbs and other dietary supplements, then it is irradiation.
There is good evidence now that almost any dosage of ionizing radiation does some damage (if it can kill pathogens, it can damage other cells and molecules), and any dosage above 10kGy is considered very high. 30 kGy is just plain crazy! Vitamins are much more prone to break down when not present in a food matrix, as is typically the case in dietary supplements. In other words, consumers could seriously be misled if the stated label content is different from the actual content which has been reduced as a result of irradiation.
There are other risks as well: the formation of radiolytic products which can be harmful and the increased risk of migration of components in packaging materials (e.g. plasticizers like bisphenol-A) into the food or dietary supplement product.
Irradiation of bioactive compounds in these nutritional supplements is well known to change those molecules and destroy them, thus changing the unique structure that makes these compounds effective nutrients.
Bottom line, if something is irradiated, it should not be permitted at the levels that have been suggested to the FDA and it should be clearly indicated on the label by ingredient. |
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Ellyn
Joined: 16 Jul 2000
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Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:49 am
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Here is a comment from a Care2 member on a post at that website:
Comment:
Please check out this one as well ;
http://www.care2.com/news/member/763717789/574272
What people need to understand is that they DO intend to deny us all healthier options - the supplements -vs- their crap medicines, and in farming & other food - the organic -vs- their G.M. crap !
That way they make us DEPENDENT on them - and when we are ill from the food - we are dependent on their drugs - which make us even more ill.
It`s a b. evil plot yes, but it seems to be expanding and I`m not too sure anymore what we are going to do.
Even on the farming scene in U.K. - by releasing their viruses they are now putting countless farmers out of business. |
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stitcherman
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Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:03 pm
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I have a bag of corporate carrots that have been in my refrigerator going on six weeks now. They still have a crisp snap to them !
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Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:02 am
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quote:
Originally posted by stitcherman
I have a bag of corporate carrots that have been in my refrigerator going on six weeks now. They still have a crisp snap to them !
Some chemicals are capable of preserving food for up to 6 years.
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