Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Re: [epilepsy] FDA MEETING ABOUT MSG & SEIZURES



Craig,

Did you get my e-mail telling you on Yahoo what foods have MSG
in them? I just put MSG into the Yahoo toolbar and found
MSG Truth.org. there is a big list of foods with MSG and also
restaurants and foods they serve that have MSG in them.

Millie

>   It was not what I hoped for but it was worth contacting the FDA about
> MSG causing seizures with me. The person who came here was sencere and
> interested in wanting to know how MSG affects me and what foods has caused
> the problems recently and in the past. Telling her almost all of my life
> history with living with a seizure condition, she was eager to know about
> MSG and nitrates and how they caused me to have a seizure or two.  I did
> make the point about the foods today with MSG and the foods in 1960 with
> MSG. That got her attention more than anything and the increase number of
> people,kids and infants that get seizures now. Of course I do not know how
> or why MSG & nitrates does this to me other than it's a chemical reaction
> my brain does not agree with. It all may had started this way in 1960. I
> showed her the web sites I mentioned here that I had printed out and she
> took them with her. She understood why I contacted the FDA and said they
> could not
> restrict what food companies can put in their foods and how they label
> them. She was shocked to read how some claim NO MSG yet have other things
> listed with MSG in them, while having in smaller print that it contains
> less than 2 % MSG. She immediately took that to heart and said No one
> should be decieved in false labeling especially after calling
> Swansons/Campbells who claimed a broth had NO MSG when it did. Then they
> claimed to be sorry after we called them back, telling them I had a grand
> mal seizure. Beside taking pictures of the things that gave me GM
> seizures, she is to report this all to the higher ups at the FDA and they
> will decide from there if or when they may research it all more. One
> thing she said was for me to tell other people, which I have tried here
> and other places what MSG can do as far as seizures and other illnesses
> of the brain it can cause. She and other people at the FDA would be
> interested in knowing from any of you how MSG
> affects you no matter if it is from a seizure, headache, , fribromyalgia,
> parkinsons, asthma attacks & etc....I had contacted my congress
> represenative, and told her all that had been taking place these past few
> months and about talking to an FDA person about it all. Congress first
> must pass laws so the FDA can enforce the rules and restrict these food
> companies and all the food industry what can be used. All we can do is
> contact your congress person who represents your district in your state
> and your senators to get this MSG and MSG replacement additives out of
> our foods. Obama wants us to have health insurance provided by the
> government, I say get all MSG and all other forms of it out of foods and
> people would be better instantly. It is nothing but deciet for a
> government to tell us what we need and then let corporations and
> companies use an additive that makes us all sick in some way, that we
> need their socialist insurance plan. No thanks, I'll stay
> away from MSG if I can dectect it by the labels and knowing who and how
> things are cooked or prepared. It is no crime to ask a person how some
> food is prepared if you know a possible seizure can happen from MSG.  If
> more people who are affected from MSG calls the FDA www.fda.gov and
> congress, maybe sooner than later it will be banned forever and ileagal
> to use anywhere. NIH www.nih.gov   would be interested as well in knowing
> more how MSG can affect us 1-800-411-1222. Hopefully more of you will
> continue what I started. Do not forget the EFA www.efa.org  I did not
> have any help from them in all of this, as Joe LaMountain wanted all the
> information I learned from the FDA investigator here today. Again the FDA
> can not contact the EFA as I asked about or any other organization about
> a problem with foods or drugs. The EFA has been silent on this major
> problem people know little about. It is time the EFA hears from us all
> 24/7 who are affected by MSG
> giving any of us seizures. Leave messages on weekends.  Next for the FDA
> is nitrates as I hinted to the investigator today as I told her how I
> created a seizure from them at NIH yet it was ignored in 2000. All
> ham along with ham & pork by products has nitrates that can cause
> seizures.  www.truthinlabeling.org  
> www.sellingsalesmanship.com/msginfo.html   After reading these two sites,
> you may want to call all who I mentioned here. Unfortunately the FDA has
> no list posted in public places where foods with MSG are present in
> grocery stores or restaurants. Hope this helped some of you, the children
> and infants.
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