ASPARTAME TO BE ADDED TO U.S. DAIRY PRODUCTS

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition with the FDA asking the FDA to alter the definition of "milk" to secretly include chemical sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.

Importantly, none of these additives need to be listed on the label. They will simply be swept under the definition of "milk," so that when a company lists "milk" on the label, it automatically includes aspartame or sucralose. And if you're trying to avoid aspartame, you'll have no way of doing so because it won't be listed on the label.

Read more - http://www.naturalnews.com/039244_milk_aspartame_FDA_petition.html

ASPARTAME, an artificial sweetener, has been regarded as the possible cause of a variety of serious health effects.  http://www.naturalnews.com/aspartame.html

 

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ANTIBIOTICS ADDED TO U.S. ORGANIC APPLES AND PEARS

NOT SO ORGANIC AFTER ALL

Natural News - You may not be aware of it but every time you bite into that crisp, organic apple or succulent, organic pear, you could be exposing yourself to two different antibiotic drugs that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) has quietly allowed to be used on these two fruits since the organic program's inception back in the 1990s.

Organic apples and pears grown in the U.S. for the European Union (EU) market are already effectively grown without the use of either streptomycin and tetracycline -- EU provisions do not allow the use of any antibiotics in agriculture -- which means there is no valid reason why these same fruits cannot be grown without the two antibiotics for the American market as well.

 

But heavy influence from some large organic apple and pear growers threatens to postpone NOSB's phase-out requirements until 2016, which threatens both the viability of antibiotics and the safety of the public.

Read more here:  http://www.naturalnews.com/039472_antibiotics_organic_fruits_petition.html

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