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[JongnoGuru]

Well, the great thing about it is, you don't have to rely on the big bad Americans and their rotten old FDA if you prefer. You can instead read this rather konglishy article on blocked anti-MSG laws in New South Wales, Aus., in what I gather is a Korean woman's magazine. The headline gleefully intones: Proposed NSW Regulations for the labelling of MSG in restaurants over-turned by the NSW Legislative Council in 2002!

How would customers react when they see ��We use MSG in our dishes�� printed rinted on a restaurant menu? It is like saying ��please do not enter our restaurant because we use MSG, which is harmful to your health��.

These nonsensical regulations almost became mandatory law in NSW two years ago, but they were blocked in the Upper House (Legislative Council) by an effective campaign by Dr. Peter Wong, a member of the Unity Party.
(Multiculturalism 1, Uppity Whites 0) (and no, I'm not being serious there, so don't even think about it)

Dr. Wong contacted the then Health Minister, Craig Knowles, about the anti-MSG policy which could be traced directly back to the Premier, Bob Carr, who insisted that the use of MSG in restaurants must be labelled. Dr Wong claimed that the MSG labelling regulations were discriminatory because the only restaurants that would be severely disadvantaged by the acts would be the Chinese, Viet and Korean restaurants.

Oh, but it goes on!

MSG = Harmful to humans???

If MSG is really harmful to humans, why did the NSW Legislative Council reject the MSG labelling regulations in 2002?
Yeah, by gawd, answer me that one, will ya! (hmm.... this article's really getting sucky... Oh well. Onward, ever onward we plod...)

In conclusion, MSG is not harmful to humans. Like Korean Ginseng must be used in appropriate quantities in functional foods, MSG should also be used in appropriate quantities.

��The public perception that MSG causes many adverse effects is certainly not borne out of scientific research. Well-documented clinical studies have failed to confirm adverse health effects from ingestion of MSG." said Dr. Connie Katelaris, the Head of Allergy Unit of Westmead Hospital.

So now you can take it from Eddie and Dr. Connie!

Many kinds of preservatives and colouring agents are more harmful than MSG to be regulated by NSW. (Not sure about the syntax there, but still, hmmm!) The amount of glutamate in a restaurant meal is less than it is in Vegemite, a well-known favourite food.

And there you have it. Well, I did anyway. And my tongue said: "Wowwwowowwowieee!! : It's like...it's like I'm tasting MORE!! gimme more, gimme gimme gimme!!"

[edgellskiuk]

I do not worry about msg too much I am more worried about:

Tofu shrinking my brain
http://creativehealth.netfirms.com/soybrain.shtml

Breakfast cereal is causing me to be depressed.
http://creativehealth.netfirms.com/grains6.shtml#top

And I am beginning to look like a Ukranian poiltician.
High levels of dioxin in fish

Seems to me MSG is one of the least of my worries.

[desultude]

Damn, that article on soy is discouraging.

Who knows what to eat anymore.

[JongnoGuru]

[edgellskiuk]

The way I view it eat what you want, drink what you want and stop worrying so much. Or follow the Edgellskiuk diet of cigarettes and alchohol, you will not live long but at least you will be relaxed.


Disclaimer: I have eaten a lot of soy bean products so may be mentally impaired, so can not be held accountable for the advice given.

[Swiss James]

it's not MSG you have to be worried about, it's sodium chloride- that stuff is in practically everything you eat- I even know some places where they have piles of it lying around on the tables, just in case they didn't add enough to the food when they were cooking.

Disgusting

[edgellskiuk]

Swiss James wrote:

[Son Deureo!]

[weatherman]

High doses of MSG really gets my heart pumping, I get thristy, really thristy, and sometimes I can't sleep if I had too much of it.

[mack the knife]