USA: Quorn under renewed fire from consumer lobby group
By Philip Fine | 19 December 2003
A US consumer watchdog is intensifying its campaign to have the meat substitute, Quorn, taken off supermarket shelves, despite Britain's Food Standards Agency's (FSA) rejection of claims that it is unsafe.
Despite this assessment, influential American lobby group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has continued urging the US Food and Drug Administration to ban the product, citing allergic reactions involving nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Its website www.QuornComplaints.com contains claims from more than 550 Americans and Britons that Quorn made them ill. Now, 11 have asked natural-foods supermarket Whole Foods to ban the product or post warning signs.
UK manufacturer Marlow Foods said the FSA confirmed intolerance reports to mycoprotein (Quorn's key ingredient) are much lower than for many common foods including shellfish, dairy and soy. It says CSPI's examples are not clinical trials, but anecdotal and added that Whole Foods still stocks Quorn and is "100% behind the brand."
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Once again the Confused Silly People Inc (CSPI) has managed to make headlines. Inspite of their lack of science and flying in the face of responsible parties who actually do science, they manage to attract attention through the use of unfounded scare tactics and irresponsible claims. If they are an influential US watchdog group(debateable), it is only because of a gullible and headline starved media. They are an easy quote and nothing more.
djmchugh@macaoda.com said at 6:35 pm, December 19, 2003
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