Re: POLITICAL: Aspartame changes name to Aminosweet

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On 2/8/2010 7:52 AM, Draper wrote:

> They are putting it in vitamin supplements now. I just found out it was in my

vitamin? C supplements that I've been taking for a few weeks. I feel sabotaged.

I don't allow that junk in my diet. And here I'm taking something for my health

and they stuck it in there.

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This is the kind of thing over which the FDA likes to smirk, or some

people think they may be actually encouraging it.....the idea is to get

people to allow the FDA the power to monitor/control supplements....

Unfortunately it " works " since when people complain it is usually

directly to the FDA, thereby inviting them to take over.

The only solution, near as I can see, is just like the food

situation....know your supplier and only deal with those you can trust.

Somewhat limiting in the case of supplements (I'm deliberately in an

area where much safe food is produced so I don't find it a limitation in

access to safe food) and furthermore, hard to assess.

I try now to manage my diet/lifestyle to keep the need for supplements

to a minimum and rarely find the need for them now, but hen I lived in

an urban area with less access to good food I relied on them.

Not funny, for sure---not to mention unsafe.

[Guest guest]

Which supplement brand was it. I think the best way to discourage this

behavior by supplies it to vote with our dollars.

On 2/8/10 10:08 AM, " sjc " <indexer@...> wrote:

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> On 2/8/2010 7:52 AM, Draper wrote:

>> > They are putting it in vitamin supplements now. I just found out it was in

>> my vitamin? C supplements that I've been taking for a few weeks. I feel

>> sabotaged. I don't allow that junk in my diet. And here I'm taking something

>> for my health and they stuck it in there.

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> This is the kind of thing over which the FDA likes to smirk, or some

> people think they may be actually encouraging it.....the idea is to get

> people to allow the FDA the power to monitor/control supplements....

> Unfortunately it " works " since when people complain it is usually

> directly to the FDA, thereby inviting them to take over.

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> The only solution, near as I can see, is just like the food

> situation....know your supplier and only deal with those you can trust.

> Somewhat limiting in the case of supplements (I'm deliberately in an

> area where much safe food is produced so I don't find it a limitation in

> access to safe food) and furthermore, hard to assess.

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> I try now to manage my diet/lifestyle to keep the need for supplements

> to a minimum and rarely find the need for them now, but hen I lived in

> an urban area with less access to good food I relied on them.

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> Not funny, for sure---not to mention unsafe.

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