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Press Release: Soil and Health Association

NZFSA and New Zealand Nutrition Foundation Short on Credibility.

"It is time people retired or were fired from the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) so New Zealanders might be given independent and reliable information about food safety," said Soil & Health spokesperson Steffan Browning today, adding that, "the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation was also a food industry mouthpiece lacking credibility."

"The information coming to the public from these two organisations is consistently big food industry based, while the real independent and credible research, that damns artificial sweetener aspartame's safety, is consistently ignored or crudely glossed over."

"Yesterday both agencies effectively used the Washington based food industry mouthpiece, the International Food Information Council (IFIC) for their media release wording and spin, while attempting to defend the use of the neurotoxin aspartame as a sweetener. However they failed to mention who is funding IFIC."

Examples of IFIC supporters in 2002 were:

Archer Daniels Midland Company
Aventis CropScience
BASF
Burger King Corporation
Cargill, Incorporated
The Coca-Cola Company
Dow AgroSciences, LLC
DuPont Agricultural Products
Frito-Lay, Inc.
General Mills, Inc.
Gerber Products Company
Hershey Foods Corporation
H. J. Heinz Company
Kellogg USA, Inc.
Kraft Foods
McDonald Corporation
Monsanto Company
The Pepsi-Cola Company
Nestle USA, Inc.
Taco Bell Corporation
The Procter & Gamble Company
Syngenta
Unilever Bestfoods


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