For the attention of OPF
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Actually, I haven't done much research into that, it's mostly little snippets of things over the years that I see the FDA prohibit. Not much point in a thread, maybe someone else can enlighten us.
I'll see what I can find
The sources aren't exactly trustworthy. What I also mean is that they approve something harmful and leave it to the consumer/others to find out whether or not it's good or bad. Also, I think they moved towards banning the labelling of any product as "capable of healing" unless classified as a drug, vitamins for example.
http//www.newstarget.com/005032.html
There's one such thing.
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There is an alternative sugar product in Japan but isn't allowed on the sales market because of the Aspartame producers sake, the FDA suppressed it. its a south American plant called stevia rebaudiana, it is incredibly sweet. I read it in one of Dr Atkins books and it's recommended on the 'x-factor diet'.
It has been used as a sweetener for generation in Japan and South America. In it's natural fresh or dried leaf form it can taste up to 10-15 times sweeter then common table sugar, or up to 300 times sweeter if you use it in extracted form. Extracts of stevia are relatively stable during heat processing.
In the USA the FDA in one of it's many misguided attempts to 'protect' Americans, refuse to make stevia legal. After many years of public pressure it has been allowed to be sold as a herb but not a sweetener, but it's not allowed in any form here in the UK
The EUC scientific committee for food was presented with rather bogus data and concluded a test tube derivative of stevia known as steviol 'might produce adverse affects in the male reproductive system and damage DNA'.
Since no adverse affects with in people have ever been associated with stevia in it's long history of use it's so obvious that this is just another attack on a natural sweetener used for centuries in south America and for over of a quarter of a century in Japan. It is nothing less then a poorly thought out attempt to discredit an invaluable herb. Stevia possesses no threat what so ever to human health. It does however pose a potentially VERY BIG threat to corporate projects of companies producing artificial sweeteners.
.... and Aspartame is not safe.