FAILSAFE special
Newsletter of the Food Intolerance Network of Australia
November 1999
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FAILSAFE supports families using the low-chemical elimination diet recommended by the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital - free of additives, low in salicylates, amines and flavour enhancers - for health, behaviour and learning problems. |
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UPDATE ON FOOD ADDITIVES
The proposal to relax restrictions on the use of food additives (see FAILSAFE #11) is not finalised. Four unknown ministers have yet to vote.
So there is still time to contact health ministers. You could ask them to vote against the Australian New Zealand Food Authority's proposal "P150 A Joint General Standard for Food Additives".
You might like to mention some of the following points:
* 50 additives have been found to affect health and behaviour.
* Every time one of these additives is used, someone, somewhere will be affected.
* Reactions to food additives are dose-related and cumulative. P150 proposes to allow additives in higher doses and/or more foods which means more people will be affected.
* Children are the most vulnerable.
* Twice as many women are affected as men.
* The food industry could choose to affect as few people as possible by minimising the use of these additives. Instead they are choosing to affect as many as possible.
* Use of these additives should be reduced, not increased.
* Your experiences - yourself, your children, your students
Comments from individuals are important. Your request will be even more effective if you represent a group, eg preschool, childcare centre, family day care, school, women's group, support group, breastfeeding group, church group, food intolerance group, playgroup, health centre, scout group, sporting club, community organisation - anyone who is concerned about the health and welfare of our children.
Our experience is that consumers are outraged about this proposal. They feel they have not been consulted. Email, fax (see below) or write (c/- Parliament House, Capital City) to the health ministers. And spread the word. If you'd like to distribute copies of our pamphlet "Use of food additives to increase" please contact the FINA office, fx 08 8942 3099, sdengate@ozemail.com.au
Wendy Edmond, QLD: health@ministerial.qld.gov.au fx 07 3229 4731
John Thwaites, VIC: john.thwaites@parliament.vic.gov.au fx 03 9616 8566
John Day, WA: day.gwhitby@mpc.wa.gov.au fx 08 9213 6601
Dean Brown, SA: Minister.HumanServices@saugov.sa.gov.au fx 08 8207 1950
Judy Jackson, TAS: judy.jackson@parliament.tas.gov.au fx 03 6223 8033
Craig Knowles, NSW: aknowles@parliament.nsw.gov.au fx 02 9228 3716
Stephen Dunham, NT: stephen.dunhma@nt.gov.au fx 08 8999 6966
Michael Moore ACT: moore@dpa.act.gov.au fx 02 6205 0431
Michael Wooldridge,FED: woolwww@wooldridge.aust.com fx 02 6273 4146
Wyatt Creech NZ: wyatt.creech@parliament.govt.nz fx 0011 644 471 2936
Senator Grant Tambling (committee chairman): peter.mcmahon@health.gov.au fx 08 8981 3022
The responses from Health Ministers and shadow Ministers to FINA's letters about food additives can be faxed to you on request to sdengate@ozemail.com.au
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This newsletter available free by email from sdengate@ozemail.com.au or by mail for $10 per year from PO Box 85 Parap NT 0804. Thanks to Margie Turner, Ashley, Kerry, Deborah Halliwell, Melita Stevens, and reader reports. © Sue Dengate (text). Further reading: The Simplified Elimination Diet from dietitians, Fed Up by Sue Dengate Random House, 1998 and Friendly Food, by Swain and others, Murdoch Books, 1991.
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