Food allergies are on the rise. We need to be able to purchase food in all categories, with the certainty of safety.
As someone with an Allium Allergy, reading every label twice over, emailing companies, being part of allergy groups, researching triggers, etc., is not enough to have 100% certainty that the food products we are purchasing are SAFE.
If companies would factly list all ingredients used, as in; stop saying natural flavors or spices. For example spices or flavorings for me, shouldn’t have to be a guessing game of garlic, onion, or chives being included in that category.
Those of us with allergies to more than the top 9 allergens would be able to safely purchase and consume more products of all categories.
Propriety rights to a recipe are understood, but should have to be stated with all the ingredients of what is used. I don’t want their secret recipe or amounts given to me. I just want to safely consume healthy foods without having allergic reactions.
This is already legally required. The issue isn’t listing of ingredients but in redefining certain substances to require their source. For instance citric acid is derived from over a dozen different sources but because of its compound is only citric acid. To umbrella allergies you would need to define where the source of the by product was derived. That is currently not required but all ingredients are disclosed by law. Legislation focusing on that would be redundant
Especially HEK 293, Human Embryonic Kidney 293. Taken from Kidneys of (who knows where they get these babies from, most likely Planned Parenthood) babies, making the unsuspecting consumer cannibals! This is a major ingredient in all those ubiquitous ‘natural flavors’ and other words that hide what they are really made of.
If all ingredients are disclosed by law, then why isn’t LEAD listed on Badia and other cinnamon brands? I have a whopping case of lead poisoning from cinnamon (my bottle was actually tested at the lab used by Consumer Labs, and my county health department investigated my case). And children’s applesauce pouches were recalled for lead in the cinnamon - none of which was listed on the label. So K. Smith you are not right about that.
Lol that’s called contamination. Lead isn’t added Into the food and thus not an ingredient…you’re confused on what is an ingredient and what is a contaminate. Contamination happens and that’s why companies are sued etc. It’s also why they have to perform safety testing etc but your lettuce isn’t listing E.Coli on it as an ingredient. It’s not but they recall the product once they find it’s been contaminated. Your issue is in oversight and regulations because of loose requirements that don’t test every single item and thus contamination like you described occurs. Vastly different issue here and only in being informed can we actually solve the problem. The issue isn’t laws for ingredients, it’s more thorough protocol to define additives & stabilizers as well as testing for safety. More ingredient laws won’t solve either issue listed here