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Stevia is considered a food additive when used as an ingredient in a conventional food. There is no regulation in effect that provides for the safe use of stevia, nor is there a suffcient basis to conclude that stevia is generally recognize as safe (GRAS) among qualified experts for its intended use in food. Therefore, stevia is an unapproved food additive that is unsafe under Section 409 of the Act. The presence of stevia in your products Natural Opti-Soy 50, Natural PRO COMPLEX, and Natural 100% Egg Protein renders these products adulterated under Section 402(a)(2)(C) of the Act. This is bad, very bad for the industry We have also noted that the label for your Natural Opti-Soy 50, a soy protein product, states that soy protein ". . . may play a significant inhibitory role in certain cancers and atherosclerosis development." Your promotional literature for your soy product links soy use to slowing the development of atherosclerosis and heart disease. Since a health claim for the relationship between soy and diseases other than coronary heart disease has not been authorized by regulation or the Act, your Natural Opti-Soy 50 is misbranded under Section 403 (r)(1)(B) of the Act. It is misbranded since the claims that this product makes for inhibiting cancer and atherosclerosis are unauthorized health claims. This was a partial mistake on the FDA's part.......it has been mandated and re-inforced with litigation that if a product has as little as 6.25 grams of soy...it may be labeled "Heart Healthy" and obviously Optimum took it too far..........but it opens the door for approved claims |
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Originally posted by 1Fast400 This has been out for a long time, why does it surprise everybody? |
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That's ok! I have ways of finding out!!