Untested, Unregulated Milk Protein Concentrate from China - a HUMAN food poison?

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Tue May-01-07 01:25 PM
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Untested, Unregulated Milk Protein Concentrate from China - a HUMAN food poison?

Edited on Tue May-01-07 01:59 PM by jackstraw45

Ingredients: MILK, WHEY, MILKFAT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR), ANNATTO (COLOR), ENZYMES, VITAMIN D3, CHEESE CULTURE.

Is Milk Protein Concentrate from China in your Kraft CHEESE "boosted" with Melamine?

KRAFT used unregulated Milk Protein Concentrates from China in "cheese products" for years and may still...

What is MPC? It's a by-product of milk processing. MPC contains dried bacteria, radioactive isotopes, heavy metals, pesticides, dioxins and other dangerous residues.

From Family Farm Defenders in November 2006 before the pet food scare:
http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/pmwiki.php/MilkProteinConcentrate/MilkProteinConcentrateMPC-ConsumersMustBeWarned

"The fact that MPC is a powder that comes from diverse foreign countries makes it impossible to verify its source since it might be mixed together to obtain certain levels of protein, and no one using it wants to certify its origin or its safety or nutritional analysis. Some of the countries sending MPC to the U.S. for use in our food supply include India, Russia, and China, all nations where questionable health issues in the past have included radiation contamination, chemical pollution, and disease factors."

US imports of milk protein products, particularly certain Milk Protein Concentrates (MPC) have increased dramatically since 1995. Whereas in 1995 MPC imports were just 15.9 million pounds, by the year 2000 they had reached 116.1 million pounds - an increase of well over 600% in just five years.

From the NFFC:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) never tested Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC) as a food ingredient for human consumption, therefore it does not meet "Generally Regarded as Safe" (GRAS) standards. In other words, the public has no idea whether it contains waste products that constitute a health hazard.

From Family Farm Defenders in 2001:

http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/pmwiki.php/MPC/KraftCheeseAdulteratedFoodFDADontAskDontTell

MPC is a food additive without exemption. FDA has no standard for MPC. The FDA does not list MPC among food additives "Generally Regarded As Safe" (GRAS).

In 2002, the FDA busted Kraft on adding this unregulated item to their cheeses:

Letter from FDA (JUST removed from FDA site but cached on Google):

http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/g3740d.htm

December 18, 2002

WARNING LETTER
CHI-6-03
CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

Ms. Betsy D. Holden, President & CEO
Kraft Foods North America, Inc.
NF 301
Three Lakes Drive
Northfield, IL 60062

Dear Ms. Holden:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently conducted inspections of your facilities located in Champaign, IL; New Ulm, MN; and Springfield, MO. These inspections were conducted to determine your firm’s compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and implementing regulations contained in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 133 (21 CFR 133).

Our inspectional observations and a review of certain labeling collected during the subject inspections found serious violations of Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 133, Subpart B - Requirements for Specific Standardized Cheese and Related Products (21 CFR, Section 133, Subpart B).

Your firm’s ‘Kraft Singles American Pasteurized Process Cheese Food," ‘Kraft Singles Sharp Cheddar Pasteurized Process Cheese Food," and ‘Kraft Singles Swiss Pasteurized Process Cheese Food" products are misbranded within the meaning of Section 403(g)( 1) of the Act in that they purport to be or are represented as a food, namely pasteurized process cheese food, for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed in 21 CFR 133.173, and the products do not conform to the definition and standard. Milk protein concentrate is not listed in 133.173(d) as one of the optional dairy ingredients that may be used in pasteurized process cheese food.

Your firm’s ‘Waft Velveeta Pasteurized Process Cheese Spread" product is misbranded within the meaning of Section 403(g)( 1) of the Act in that it purports to be or is represented as a food, namely pasteurized process cheese spread, for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed in 21 CFR 133.179, and the product does not conform to the definition and standard. Milk protein concentrate is not listed in 133.179(d) as one of the optional dairy ingredients that may be used in pasteurized process cheese spread.

These products declare milk protein concentrate in their ingredients listings. Milk protein concentrate (MPC) is not listed as an optional dairy ingredient in any of the standardized cheese products governed by a standard of identity, and therefore standardized cheese products are not permitted to contain MPC as an ingredient.

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The use of milk protein concentrate in these products constitutes a violation of Section 403(g)(1) of the Act because the products are represented as foods for which standards of identity have been prescribed by regulation and the use of milk protein concentrate in these products does not conform to the standards.

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Kraft, instead of stopping the usage of this untested ingredient, changed their labels naming "cheese" as "cheese product."

So...what companies make MPC for Kraft in China? Do they boost the protein levels with any chemicals? What is IN your "cheese products" from Kraft?

Dem Senators have introduced the "Cheese Quality Act of 2007" :

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.530:

Is it too late? The gutted FDA is on the side of big business at all costs...

But, oh yeah, elections don't matter... :eyes: