Forum Post: Milk Industry Petitions FDA to Allow Aspartame
Posted 11 years ago on Feb. 28, 2013, 1:35 p.m. EST by LeoYo
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Milk Industry Petitions FDA to Allow Aspartame
February 28, 2013 at 9:00AM by Kiri Tannenbaum
Milk has no added sugar, but the dairy industry is asking the Food and Drug Administration to allow it to add artificial sweeteners in the hopes of creating a lower-calorie milk product that will attract more consumers. The only catch: They don't want to announce the reduction in calories due to the sweetener on the label.
Currently the FDA regulation states that milk can contain only "nutritive sweeteners," which have calories and are recognized as safe by the FDA. According to the journal for the U.S. government, the Federal Register, the International Dairy Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have asked the agency to allow the industry to use "any safe and suitable" sweetener and "allow optional characterizing flavoring ingredients used in milk (e.g., chocolate flavoring added to milk) to be sweetened with any safe and suitable sweetener — including non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame." The industry believes that offering lower-calorie flavored milks, such as chocolate milk, will benefit school children who are more inclined to drink flavored milks. This lower-calorie product, they believe, will help in the fight against childhood obesity.
But why don't the IDFA and the NMPF want to include a nutrient content claim, such as "reduced calorie," on the label? According to the petition, they argue that placing "reduced calorie" on labels will not attract children and that consumers can "more easily identify the overall nutritional value of milk products that are flavored with non-nutritive sweeteners if the labels do not include such claims."
IDFA and the NMPF filed this petition to allow artificial sweeteners back in 2009. Just last week the FDA published a notice of petition requesting "comments, data, and information about the issues presented in the petition filed by the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation to amend the standard of identity for milk and 17 other dairy products to provide for the use of any safe and suitable sweetener as an optional ingredient." That information is due to the FDA by May 21, 2013.
Do you think the milk industry should be allowed to add artificial sweeteners to create a lower-calorie product?
This is just straight up insidious. They don't want to sweeten the milk with any safe low to 0 calorie sweeteners like xylitol or stevia. No, they only want to use artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose that are known to cause negative health issues in people and they don't want people to know. All to make a profit from a claim. Profits before people as usual. Insidious!
Just got done reading this on the Natural News website. Insidious indeed.
Mike Adams & Dairy Farmer discuss FDA Courts, Court System.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbRdxO1GGM&list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg (Check 12 minutes into the video for FDA & FTC Court Systems different from other American Court Systems)
Was just looking for a place to post this about the FTC ... this is the first that I have heard that the FTC whcih is responsible for breaking up Monoplolies and for prosecuting Fraud & educating people about fraud in the USA ... the FDA & FTC have their own court systems ... in which a farmer or dairy farmer can not have a Jury Trial. The FDA shuts down farmers without proof and you have to prove you are innocent. All the Judges & Regulators are paid by tribute or taxes. Joe Dixon and his Wife have been devastated by Government Regulators who sealed his Cheese Building and finally destroyed his Cheese....
Check the Video. http://morninglanddairy.webs.com/ In my opinion ... there is a surplus of milk in the USA and so the Milk Lobby is targeting dairy farmers who are small. FDA & FTC & Milk Board are complicite. The proof is that there is no need for milk producing hormones since everyone knows there is a milk surplus.... Just ask around I guess.
36000 pounds of cheese destroyed.
This is surreal ! Curiouser and curiouser!