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- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Path: sparky!uunet!scorn!evanh
- From: evanh@sco.COM (Evan Hunt)
- Subject: Re: MSG
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:25:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.072535.18264@sco.com>
- Summary: msg and celiac disease
- References: <6090048@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> <1992Jul22.031156.29799@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Jul22.144117.20399@walter.bellcore.com>
- Sender: news@sco.com (News admin)
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- jchen@ctt.bellcore.com writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- That's not the only problem with it. MSG can contain gluten; for people with
- celiac disease (like my wife) it is literally poison.
-
- >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.
-
- An accidental use of gluten, even in the tiniest amounts, makes my wife sick
- for days. Admittedly, she is not a normal healthy person, but celiac disease
- isn't that uncommon, either.
-
- >That is why FDA does not regulate the use of it, only the labeling of it for
- >those who are allergic to it.
-
- Sounds good to me. I see no reason why it should be banned. But it should
- DEFINITELY be labelled correctly. Label reading for a celiac is complicated
- enough already; hearing that MSG may be lurking in unsuspected places is
- really rotten news.
-
- --
- "Seen in this light, leaving the shoe behind her is obviously an act of
- rebellion against the dictatorial regimentation of the domineering fairy
- godmother." - Alma Bond, PhD, in "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality"
-