Category: Admin, Date: May 31, 2007
This is just one more example of big business colluding with the FDA to fool the buying public. With well over 55% of the FDA’s budget coming from the manufacturers the FDA is supposed to be policing, whose side do you think the FDA is on, yours or theirs? It isn’t yours! Be informed and be forewarned.
| Potential Deception and Destruction of Healthy Chocolate |
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Members of the Chocolate Manufacturers of America (CMA), such as Hershey, Nestle and Archer Daniels Midland, initially posing as an interested citizens group, have covertly petitioned the FDA to “modernize food standards” by allowing products containing little or no cocoa butter to still be labeled chocolate.
This would allow products that were essentially a mix of milk, artificial sweeteners and hydrogenated trans fats to be sold as chocolate.
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Considering science is proving how eating minimally-processed chocolate can provide you with boatloads of beneficial antioxidants, you’d think big business couldn’t and wouldn’t do anything to mess up that good news.
Guess again, folks.
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| You may soon see sales of “chocolate” that is a mixture of artificial sweeteners, 2 percent milk fats and the very health-harming trans fats. |
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Tags: chocolate, deception, FDA, Chocolate Manufacturers of America, food labeling
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 3:09 am and is filed under Admin.
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