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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia
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NaturalNews.com printable article Originally published January 31 2008 FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia by David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) The FDA has sent a warning letter to the Hain Celestial Group, instructing the natural and organic food producer to relabel certain products that contain the sweetener stevia. The letter concerned the Celestial Zingers To Go tea and drink mix products, which the FDA charges are being labeled and marketed as food products, even though an ingredient they contain -- the stevia herb -- has not been approved for use in foods in the United States. Stevia, derived from a South American plant, has become popular as a sweetener because it has 300 times the sweetness of table sugar but almost no impact on blood glucose levels. Its taste is said to have a slower onset than that of sugar and to last longer. Stevia has been approved for use in food and beverage products in a number of countries, including Brazil, Canada, China and Japan, but to date the FDA has only approved it as an ingredient in dietary supplements. In response to the warning letter, Hain Celestial Group removed the term "iced tea mix" from all labels of the products in question, and made the words "herbal supplement" much more prominent. In light of the increasing popularity of stevia and the fact that companies like Hain Celestial have apparently been trying to get around regulations of its use, the FDA said that it expects to soon receive a petition to approve the sweetener for use in foods. Reportedly, both the Coca-Cola Company and Cargill are interested in producing stevia-sweetened products, with Coca-Cola having filed 24 patent applications related to the sweetener. But the FDA said that current information is not sufficient to prove stevia safe as an ingredient for food. "Data and information necessary to support the safe use have been lacking," the FDA's letter to Hain Celestial read. "In fact, literature reports have raised safety concerns about the use of stevia, including concerns about control of blood sugar and the effects of reproductive, cardiovascular and renal systems." Consumer health advocate Mike Adams, a long-time supporter of stevia, disagrees. "The FDA has been stalling on stevia approval for well over a decade in order to protect the profits of aspartame," Adams said. "Stevia is safely used around the world by hundreds of millions of consumers with absolutely no problems, while aspartame is tied to seizures, blindness, headaches and other serious neurological problems. The FDA once ordered the destruction of books containing stevia recipes. That's how desperate this criminal organization is to protect the profit racket of aspartame," Adams concluded. |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia
"Màck©®" wrote in message ... Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived. This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Feb 14, 2:34 am). On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:24:53 GMT, "Jan Drew" wrote: http://www.naturalnews.com/z022571.html NaturalNews.com printable article Originally published January 31 2008 FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia by David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) The FDA has sent a warning letter to the Hain Celestial Group, instructing the natural and organic food producer to relabel certain products that contain the sweetener stevia. The letter concerned the Celestial Zingers To Go tea and drink mix products, which the FDA charges are being labeled and marketed as food products, even though an ingredient they contain -- the stevia herb -- has not been approved for use in foods in the United States. Stevia, derived from a South American plant, has become popular as a sweetener because it has 300 times the sweetness of table sugar but almost no impact on blood glucose levels. Its taste is said to have a slower onset than that of sugar and to last longer. Stevia has been approved for use in food and beverage products in a number of countries, including Brazil, Canada, China and Japan, but to date the FDA has only approved it as an ingredient in dietary supplements. In response to the warning letter, Hain Celestial Group removed the term "iced tea mix" from all labels of the products in question, and made the words "herbal supplement" much more prominent. In light of the increasing popularity of stevia and the fact that companies like Hain Celestial have apparently been trying to get around regulations of its use, the FDA said that it expects to soon receive a petition to approve the sweetener for use in foods. Reportedly, both the Coca-Cola Company and Cargill are interested in producing stevia-sweetened products, with Coca-Cola having filed 24 patent applications related to the sweetener. But the FDA said that current information is not sufficient to prove stevia safe as an ingredient for food. "Data and information necessary to support the safe use have been lacking," the FDA's letter to Hain Celestial read. "In fact, literature reports have raised safety concerns about the use of stevia, including concerns about control of blood sugar and the effects of reproductive, cardiovascular and renal systems." Consumer health advocate Mike Adams, a long-time supporter of stevia, disagrees. "The FDA has been stalling on stevia approval for well over a decade in order to protect the profits of aspartame," Adams said. "Stevia is safely used around the world by hundreds of millions of consumers with absolutely no problems, while aspartame is tied to seizures, blindness, headaches and other serious neurological problems. The FDA once ordered the destruction of books containing stevia recipes. That's how desperate this criminal organization is to protect the profit racket of aspartame," Adams concluded. |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of NaturalSweetener Stevia
On Feb 7, 2:34*am, Màck©® wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:24:53 GMT, "" wrote: good for the FDA. *Finally doing their job right. Unfortunately, the FDA is so understaffed and underfunded that they rarely can do that. They were emasculated by the DSHEA to complicate matters,. I want them fully taxpayer funded, staffed with the best and the brightest, and with sufficient authority to accomplish their mission. |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of NaturalSweetener Stevia
On Feb 7, 4:30*am, Mark Probert wrote:I want
them fully taxpayer funded, staffed with the best and thebrightest, and with sufficient authority to accomplish their mission. I will assume mark you believe the NIH and the FDA are about pretty much the same .. ? As per 'those to believe' .. and follow without .. question .. ? Being they are the government and all .. and it seems you have chosen to follow .. blindly .. 'whatever they decide' .. based on THEIR .. 'take' on it .. ? Not being smart here .. but .. you being as busy as you are cannot keep really 'up' on the in depth findings of EVERY 'reason' the FDA or the NIH might 'go after' .. say .. Stevia .. bovine lactoferrin .. silybin .. etc .. ? But you do not mention HOW the NIH could not see that feeding mice/ a herbivore .. meat .. would NOT 'make a difference' to nutrition studies all over the world .. ? What's up with that .. ? YOU believe then that feeding a mice meat will not skew a nutrition study designed to study disease in man .. ? "Best and the brightest" I don't think so .. Who loves ya. Tom Jesus Was A Vegetarian! http://jesuswasavegetarian.7h.com Man Is A Herbivore! http://tinyurl.com/a3cc3 DEAD PEOPLE WALKING http://tinyurl.com/zk9fk On Feb 7, 2:34*am, Màck©® wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:24:53 GMT, "" wrote: good for the FDA. *Finally doing their job right. Unfortunately, the FDA is so understaffed and underfunded that they rarely can do that. They were emasculated by the DSHEA to complicate matters,. I want them fully taxpayer funded, staffed with the best and the brightest, and with sufficient authority to accomplish their mission. |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of NaturalSweetener Stevia
On Feb 5, 9:24*pm, "Jan Drew" wrote:FDA
Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia J Agric Food Chem. 2007 Nov 27 [Epub ahead of print] Links Oxidative DNA Damage Preventive Activity and Antioxidant Potential of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni, a Natural Sweetener. Ghanta S, Banerjee A, Poddar A, Chattopadhyay S. . At 0.1 mg/mL, the ethyl acetate extract (EAE) of the crude 85% methanolic extract (CAE) of Stevia rebaudiana leaves exhibited preventive activity against DNA strand scission by (*)OH generated in Fenton's reaction on pBluescript II SK (-) DNA. Its efficacy is better than that of quercetin. The radical scavenging capacity of CAE was evaluated by the DPPH test (IC 50 = 47.66 +/- 1.04 microg/mL). EAE was derived from CAE scavenged DPPH (IC 50 = 9.26 +/- 0.04 microg/mL), ABTS (+) (IC 50 = 3.04 +/- 0.22 microg/mL) and (*)OH (IC 50 = 3.08 +/- 0.19 microg/mL). Additionally, inhibition of lipid peroxidation induced with 25 mM FeSO 4 on rat liver homogenate as a lipid source was noted with CAE (IC 50 = 2.1 +/- 1.07 mg/mL). The total polyphenols and total flavonoids of EAE were 0.86 mg gallic acid equivalents/mg and 0.83 mg of quercetin equivalents/mg, respectively. Flavonoids, isolated from EAE, were characterized as quercetin-3-O- arabinoside, quercitrin, apigenin, apigenin-4-O-glucoside, luteolin, and kaempferol-3-O-rhamnoside by LC-MS and NMR analysis. These results indicate that Stevia rebaudiana may be useful as a potential source of natural antioxidants. PMID: 18038982 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] Who loves ya. Tom Jesus Was A Vegetarian! http://jesuswasavegetarian.7h.com Man Is A Herbivore! http://tinyurl.com/a3cc3 DEAD PEOPLE WALKING http://tinyurl.com/zk9fk http://www.naturalnews.com/z022571.html NaturalNews.com printable article Originally published January 31 2008 FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia by David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) The FDA has sent a warning letter to the Hain Celestial Group, instructing the natural and organic food producer to relabel certain products that contain the sweetener stevia. The letter concerned the Celestial Zingers To Go tea and drink mix products, which the FDA charges are being labeled and marketed as food products, even though an ingredient they contain -- the stevia herb -- has not been approved for use in foods in the United States. Stevia, derived from a South American plant, has become popular as a sweetener because it has 300 times the sweetness of table sugar but almost no impact on blood glucose levels. Its taste is said to have a slower onset than that of sugar and to last longer. Stevia has been approved for use in food and beverage products in a number of countries, including Brazil, Canada, China and Japan, but to date the FDA has only approved it as an ingredient in dietary supplements. In response to the warning letter, Hain Celestial Group removed the term "iced tea mix" from all labels of the products in question, and made the words "herbal supplement" much more prominent. In light of the increasing popularity of stevia and the fact that companies like Hain Celestial have apparently been trying to get around regulations of its use, the FDA said that it expects to soon receive a petition to approve the sweetener for use in foods. Reportedly, both the Coca-Cola Company and Cargill are interested in producing stevia-sweetened products, with Coca-Cola having filed 24 patent applications related to the sweetener. But the FDA said that current information is not sufficient to prove stevia safe as an ingredient for food. "Data and information necessary to support the safe use have been lacking," the FDA's letter to Hain Celestial read. "In fact, literature reports have raised safety concerns about the use of stevia, including concerns about control of blood sugar and the effects of reproductive, cardiovascular and renal systems." Consumer health advocate Mike Adams, a long-time supporter of stevia, disagrees. "The FDA has been stalling on stevia approval for well over a decade in order to protect the profits of aspartame," Adams said. "Stevia is safely used around the world by hundreds of millions of consumers with absolutely no problems, while aspartame is tied to seizures, blindness, headaches and other serious neurological problems. The FDA once ordered the destruction of books containing stevia recipes. That's how desperate this criminal organization is to protect the profit racket of aspartame," Adams concluded. |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of NaturalSweetener Stevia
On Feb 7, 7:34*pm, " wrote:
On Feb 7, 4:30*am, Mark Probert wrote:I want them fully taxpayer funded, staffed with the best and thebrightest, and with sufficient authority to accomplish their mission. I will assume mark you believe the NIH and the FDA are about pretty much the same .. ? Nope, I do not believe that. I fully know the difference. As per 'those to believe' .. and follow without .. question .. ? Being they are the government and all .. and it seems you have chosen to follow .. blindly .. 'whatever they decide' .. based on THEIR .. 'take' on it .. ? I do not follow blindly. I keep an open mind and review everything. Your point is absurd. Not being smart here .. but .. you being as busy as you are cannot keep really 'up' on the in depth findings of EVERY 'reason' the FDA or the NIH might 'go after' .. say .. Stevia .. bovine lactoferrin .. silybin .. etc .. ? I am familiar with Stevia. I know that there are problems with it, and it is not approved for use in the US, and other countries. But you do not mention HOW the NIH could not see that feeding mice/ a herbivore .. meat .. would NOT 'make a difference' to nutrition studies all over the world .. ? What's up with that .. ? YOU believe then that feeding a mice meat will not skew a nutrition study designed to study disease in man .. ? I lost you, or, more likely, you lost you. "Best and the brightest" I don't think so .. That is one of the problems. They do not attract the best and the brightest, and they do not work to keep them, if they do get one or two. Who loves ya. Tom Jesus Was A Vegetarian!http://jesuswasavegetarian.7h.com Man Is A Herbivore!http://tinyurl.com/a3cc3 DEAD PEOPLE WALKINGhttp://tinyurl.com/zk9fk On Feb 7, 2:34*am, Màck©® wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:24:53 GMT, "" wrote: good for the FDA. *Finally doing their job right. Unfortunately, the FDA is so understaffed and underfunded that they rarely can do that. They were emasculated by the DSHEA to complicate matters,. I want them fully taxpayer funded, staffed with the best and the brightest, and with sufficient authority to accomplish their mission.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia
"Mark Probert" wrote in message ... On Feb 7, 7:34 pm, " wrote: On Feb 7, 4:30 am, Mark Probert wrote:I want them fully taxpayer funded, staffed with the best and thebrightest, and with sufficient authority to accomplish their mission. I will assume mark you believe the NIH and the FDA are about pretty much the same .. ? Nope, I do not believe that. I fully know the difference. Do you? Both are *organized medicine*! As per 'those to believe' .. and follow without .. question .. ? Being they are the government and all .. and it seems you have chosen to follow .. blindly .. 'whatever they decide' .. based on THEIR .. 'take' on it .. ? I do not follow blindly. I keep an open mind and review everything. Your point is absurd. I do not follow blindly. I keep an open mind and review everything. lol. Not being smart here .. but .. you being as busy as you are cannot keep really 'up' on the in depth findings of EVERY 'reason' the FDA or the NIH might 'go after' .. say .. Stevia .. bovine lactoferrin .. silybin .. etc .. ? I am familiar with Stevia. I know that there are problems with it, and it is not approved for use in the US, and other countries. What problems? Post them please. Not by *organized medicine*. But you do not mention HOW the NIH could not see that feeding mice/ a herbivore .. meat .. would NOT 'make a difference' to nutrition studies all over the world .. ? What's up with that .. ? YOU believe then that feeding a mice meat will not skew a nutrition study designed to study disease in man .. ? I lost you, or, more likely, you lost you. I do not follow blindly. I keep an open mind and review everything. "Best and the brightest" I don't think so .. That is one of the problems. They do not attract the best and the brightest, and they do not work to keep them, if they do get one or two. Who loves ya. Tom Jesus Was A Vegetarian!http://jesuswasavegetarian.7h.com Man Is A Herbivore!http://tinyurl.com/a3cc3 DEAD PEOPLE WALKINGhttp://tinyurl.com/zk9fk On Feb 7, 2:34 am, Màck©® wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:24:53 GMT, "" wrote: good for the FDA. Finally doing their job right. Unfortunately, the FDA is so understaffed and underfunded that they rarely can do that. They were emasculated by the DSHEA to complicate matters,. I want them fully taxpayer funded, staffed with the best and the brightest, and with sufficient authority to accomplish their mission.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of NaturalSweetener Stevia
On Feb 5, 11:24*pm, "Jan Drew" wrote:
http://www.naturalnews.com/z022571.html NaturalNews.com printable article Originally published January 31 2008 FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural SweetenerStevia by David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) The FDA has sent a warning letter to the Hain Celestial Group, instructing the natural and organic food producer to relabel certain products that contain the sweetenerstevia. The letter concerned the Celestial Zingers To Go tea and drink mix products, which the FDA charges are being labeled and marketed as food products, even though an ingredient they contain -- thesteviaherb -- has not been approved for use in foods in the United States. snip And yet the FDA allows poisons like aspartame and sucralose to remain on the market. This is insanity. Thanks for the article, Jan. Medusa |
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FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural Sweetener Stevia
"Medusa" wrote in message ... On Feb 5, 11:24 pm, "Jan Drew" wrote: http://www.naturalnews.com/z022571.html NaturalNews.com printable article Originally published January 31 2008 FDA Threatened Celestial Tea Company over Use of Natural SweetenerStevia by David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) The FDA has sent a warning letter to the Hain Celestial Group, instructing the natural and organic food producer to relabel certain products that contain the sweetenerstevia. The letter concerned the Celestial Zingers To Go tea and drink mix products, which the FDA charges are being labeled and marketed as food products, even though an ingredient they contain -- thesteviaherb -- has not been approved for use in foods in the United States. snip And yet the FDA allows poisons like aspartame and sucralose to remain on the market. This is insanity. Thanks for the article, Jan. Medusa You're very welcome and correct. It is insanity. Jan |
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