On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 01:43, Jonathan B. Britten wrote: "I was re-reading Rob Faigin's excellent book "Natural Hormonal Enhancement" yesterday, and noted his claim that shortly aftertryptophan was taken off the market -- because of one toxic batch fromJapan ....."
I am in the middle of reading an excellent book called "Seeds of Deception", which is about genetically-engineered foods (and a book I highly recommend reading). There is a chapter about this tryptophan from Japan... this was a genetically modified tryptophan, made by one company in Japan. It turned out that this was the fifth generation of GM-tryptophan this company had been selling... research was done to see if there had been any prior outbreaks of reaction to their earlier GM batches (batches 1-4), and the research did show there had been previous unrecognized reactions to this company's earlier GM tryptophan.... the gist of it was that there was no problem at all with tryptophan per se, but rather the reactions that people had were due entirely to the genetically modified forms this company had been marketing without anyone's knowledge. The company destroyed all its geneticially modified tryptophan. This book is one I consider a must-read... it is quite an eye-opener about what is and has been done with genetically modified foods, the role of the gigantic corporations behind it and the FDA's complicity and ineptitude.... And I apologize for this being way off topic, I would move it over there except I don't think I'm on the CS OT list as I haven't been getting the mail (so Mike if you're reading this could you send me a link to resubscribe to that). Denise http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollectiveWisdom/
