Open Letter to Congress re: Hidden Allergens in GE Foods

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Don't worry If or when this gets enough air play I have no doubt that Monsanto and Bayer and the rest of the Military/Agriculture/Biotech/Chemical/Industrial Complex will wheel out their multi million dollar disinformation campaign to discredit any and all that would besmirch the holy dollar to be made by owning food.Who you gonna believe? Them or your lying teary, blurry eyes sitting on top of your sniffling, drippy nose?
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Open Letter to Congress About Hidden Allergens in Unlabeled Genetically Engineered Foods

* By Robyn O'Brien
AllergyKids, January 26, 2008

AllergyKids has recently learned that the American children are consuming new, unlabeled allergens that are banned in children's foods around the world given the health risks that they may present.

We encourage you to use the following letter to contact your government representative and highlight how the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act has a loophole that fails to address these hidden allergens that are now found in approximately 70 percent of processed foods (these hidden allergens are found in vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup, soy lecithin, soy lectin, soybean oil, corn starch and other soy and corn derivatives used by the United States food industry. More can be learned at http://www.allergykids.com/ _________________________________________
Dear Congressperson,

I am deeply concerned over a loophole in the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act that fails to highlight and label the recent introduction of toxic proteins and allergens in soy, corn, canola and other food products. According to Daniel Sheehan, PhD and director of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) National Center for Toxicological Research, the American children "are taking part in "a large, uncontrolled and basically unmonitored human infant experiment."

With the recent introduction of these toxins, proteins and allergens in our food, we have seen epidemic increases in the number of children with allergies, autism, ADHD and asthma in the last ten years. Because no human trials were ever conducted to assess their safety, government agencies in 60 developed countries around the world have either banned or labeled them in children's foods. The failure to label these toxins, allergens and proteins in the US has led other developed countries to refer to these childhood conditions as "American epidemics" since their introduction in 1996.

We encourage you to learn more at http://www.allergykids.com/ about the health implications of these hidden toxins and allergens and the burden that it will present to the health care system if it is not addressed and urge you to require that the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act include genetically engineered ingredients on labels as food allergens, given the novel proteins, toxins and allergens that they contain and the health implications that they are having on the American children.

In 1946, Harry Truman said, "A nation is only as healthy as its children."

I am extremely grateful to you for acting on behalf of ours.

Sincerely,
Robyn O'Brien
AllergyKids
http://www.allergykids.com/index.php?id=13 303.518.7573