Three food preservatives that have previously been prohibited for use in
meat and poultry will be approved effective May 6, 2013. The
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) says
it has determined that sodium benzoate, sodium propionate and benzoic
acid are “safe and suitable for use as antimicrobial agents in certain
[ready-to-eat} RTE meat and poultry products,” according to announcement
in the
Federal Register. The
additives are already approved for use in other food items such as
salad dressings, carbonated beverages and fruit juice and condiments.
The change came about after Kraft Foods
Global, Inc. petitioned FSIS in 2006 to allow the use of the
preservatives for use as antimicrobial agents to inhibit the growth
of Listeria monocytogenes
in
ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. Four years later, Kemin Food
Technologies petitioned FSIS to permit the use of liquid sodium
propionate and liquid sodium benzoate as acceptable antimicrobial agents
in meat and poultry products.
FSIS evaluated the requests, confirmed
with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it had no safety
objections to the preservatives and reviewed the supporting data
supplied by Kraft and Kemin. Although FSIS concluded that the
petitioners had established the preservatives were safe, it wanted more
data. It granted the companies waivers to conduct trials on the efficacy
of the additives as antimicrobial agents.
“Kraft submitted data collected from its
in-plant-trials and from scientific studies that show that these
substances do not conceal damage or inferiority or make products appear
better or of greater value than they are under the proposed conditions
of use. Kraft submitted research findings to demonstrate that its
proposed use of sodium benzoate and sodium propionate is effective in
controlling the growth of [Listeria] in RTE meat and poultry products.
Kemin also submitted findings supporting the use of its sodium
propionate and propionic acid formulations,” according to the Federal
Register.
Industrial agriculture is a filthy
business, especially when animals are involved. Rather than have access
to pasture and the outdoors, cows and chickens from factory farms live
most, if not all, of their lives in confinement, where they wallow in
their own feces, and sometimes even in the rotting carcasses of other
dead animals. As a result, such animals become ill, and their systems
infected with harmful pathogens that must be eliminated before human
consumption.
The reason companies like Kraft and Kemin
exist and thrive is because high-profit factory farms exist and thrive.
And the only way these food corporations can "safely" sell their
factory-farm food products to the public is to kill it, sanitize it, and
smother it in antimicrobial agents like sodium benzoate, sodium
propionate and benzoic acid.
So to claim that their goal in seeking
approval for the three chemicals is not to conceal
second-rate meat products is simply a lie. Low-grade meat products from
squalid factory farms have to be disguised, otherwise the public would
never purchase them.
Beyond this, the chemical substances in
question are not even safe. Sodium propionate has been linked to causing
gastrointestinal upset and respiratory problems, while sodium benzoate
can cause DNA damage and promote the formation of cancer cells. And
benzoic acid, which is often added to processed foods, can promote the
development of asthma and hyperactivity, particularly in children.
"The continued ingestion of certain
chemicals has been linked to cancer, fatigue, memory-impairment,
imbalanced motor-function, diabetes, thyroid problems, confusion and far
more," says Creative Bioscience about food preservatives and additives.
"Such food additives can stunt or stall weight loss and even cause more
pounds to add on."
Source:
foodpoisoningbulletin.com
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