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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!cash!jchen
- From: jchen@cash.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Chen)
- Subject: Re: MSG
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.144117.20399@walter.bellcore.com>
- Sender: jchen@cash (Jason Chen)
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- Organization: Bell Communications Research
- References: <1992Jul4.032759.12591@rick.dgbt.doc.ca> <6090048@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> <1992Jul22.031156.29799@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 14:41:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.031156.29799@pony.Ingres.COM>, rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT) writes:
- |> I imagine that most people who frequent this newsgroup have seen or at least
- |> heard about the 60 Minutes story on Monosodium Glutamate.
-
- There are a lot of misconceptions about MSG.
-
- The problem with MSG is that some people are allergic to it, just like
- other natural substance that people are alergic to. If you have not experienced
- with MSG related reactions, you do not have to worry about it.
-
- There is no clinical evidence to link MSG to any health problem to a
- normal person. Even for those who are allergic to it, the symptoms are
- typically short and mild. Very few had strong reactions, none has died
- of it.
-
- That is why FDA does not regulate the use of it, only the labeling of it for
- those who are allergic to it.
-
- The whole thing was blown out of proportion in 60 Minutes.
-
- --
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- C. Jason Chen
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