User talk:Newcarrageenan

The Health Concerns section of the Wikipedia Carrageenan page requires extensive editing to make it factual. The section uses references out of context and overlooks many long-term feeding studies that demonstrate diets containing food-grade carrageenan are not linked to adverse effects. The body of literature demonstrating no adverse effects from injestion of food-grade carrageenan is extensive, as is the list of foreign and domestic government agencies that approve carrageenan as a safe food ingredient. The conclusions of the Wikipedia Health Concerns section lean heavily on the conclusions of in vitro studies conducted with isolated cells primarily by one laboratory. In 2012 the FDA determined those in vitro studies were of "limited value" to the determination of safety of ingested foods containing carrageenan. As it currently exists, this section of the Carrageenan page reads more like propaganda than unbiased fact. Newcarrageenan (talk) 20:14, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits. It is now factual. Note that the National Organic Program (NOP) issued a proposed rule May 3 regarding carrageenan in organic infant formula, stating there is no reason to doubt its safety and renewed status quo conditions regarding its presence on the National List of Approved and Prohibited Substances. 216.59.114.66 (talk) 13:09, 6 May 2013 (UTC)