Author Topic: Carrageenan. Common Food Additive Linked to Digestive Disease and Cancer  (Read 957 times)

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Offline DeeDee

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Rates of digestive diseases are rising—ranging from widespread digestive discomfort (“belly bloat,” “spastic colon,” Irritable Bowel Syndrome) to serious and sometimes life-threatening diseases such as ulcerative colitis and colon cancer.

For decades, scientists conducting laboratory animal experiments using the common food additive carrageenan have found higher rates of gastrointestinal inflammation, colitis-like disease, and even colon cancer.

I have serious doubts their petition will do any good since the makers of it are probably like Monsanto and filled with mega-bucks in their banks, but it's worth a shot to contact/email the FDA with objections.

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It has been getting attention... slowly, but surely.  Some mfg have removed it...but it is still in mannnnnnny foods.  :( 
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