Holy moly - The U.S. has BANNED Vegemite!!!!!!

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
This just in! The FDA still sucks ass!

The did something right for once and you are critizicing them?

Oh! And is my pizza going to get here within the hour? I'm tired of them coming cold.

Hey is my only potential life-saving drug going to be approved within the decade? I'm tired of suffering endlessly.

Would you rather have the EU's equivalent so your children could be born with flippers?

 

[ForumMaster]

about damn time. that thing is disgusting!

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

You can all relax now... All the expat Aussies can cease the creation of your rectal smuggling canisters...

The US has issued a statement that they have not banned vegemite.

The US government has dismissed media reports it had banned Vegemite.

"There is no ban on Vegemite," US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman Mike Herndon said.

Media reports claimed American border officials were confiscating Vegemite from Australians as they entered the US.

The FDA, charged with policing America's food supply, has not issued an "import alert" to border officials to halt the import of Vegemite.

Mr Herndon said the FDA was surprised by the media reports.

The controversy centres on folate, an ingredient in Vegemite.

Under US regulations, folate can be added only to breads and cereals.

"One of the Vitamin B components (in Vegemite) is folate," Mr. Herndon said.

"In and of itself, it's not a violation. If they're adding folate to it, boosting it up, technically it would be a violation.

"But the FDA has not targeted it and I don't think we intend to target Vegemite simply because of that."

Joanna Scott, spokesperson for Vegemite's maker, Kraft, reportedly has said, "The Food and Drug Administration doesn't allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid".

But Mr. Herndon said, "Nobody at the FDA has told them (Kraft) there is a ban".

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
This just in! The FDA still sucks ass!

The did something right for once and you are critizicing them?

Oh! And is my pizza going to get here within the hour? I'm tired of them coming cold.

Hey is my only potential life-saving drug going to be approved within the decade? I'm tired of suffering endlessly.

Would you rather have the EU's equivalent so your children could be born with flippers?

I'm sure it's great business to make your customers children born with flippers.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

You stepped all over my good news with your petty squabble. :|

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

Originally posted by: MX2times
For those who have tried it, what does it taste like?

It's kind of like chocolate but tastes a tad healthier.

Hmmm, unless you've actually eaten chocolate without ANY sweetener (which I doubt), how can you say that?

It tastes more like extremely compacted tangy compost.

I must admit, while on the road through England and Wales I had marmite (quite similar) at a time when I was a)hungry and b)probably w/o much dairy product and it really hit the spot.

I'm guessing that is because of the B vitamins that yeast has. The same thing used to occur when I was a strict vegetarian, even macrobiotic for a while, and nutritional yeast (brewer's yeast) used to really hit the spot -- due, I think, to my lack of dairy intake.

The body tends to crave what it lacks, and these yeasty products deliver the B vitamins.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
You can all relax now... All the expat Aussies can cease the creation of your rectal smuggling canisters...

The US has issued a statement that they have not banned vegemite.

The US government has dismissed media reports it had banned Vegemite.

"There is no ban on Vegemite," US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman Mike Herndon said.

Media reports claimed American border officials were confiscating Vegemite from Australians as they entered the US.

The FDA, charged with policing America's food supply, has not issued an "import alert" to border officials to halt the import of Vegemite.

Mr Herndon said the FDA was surprised by the media reports.

The controversy centres on folate, an ingredient in Vegemite.

Under US regulations, folate can be added only to breads and cereals.

"One of the Vitamin B components (in Vegemite) is folate," Mr. Herndon said.

"In and of itself, it's not a violation. If they're adding folate to it, boosting it up, technically it would be a violation.

"But the FDA has not targeted it and I don't think we intend to target Vegemite simply because of that."

Joanna Scott, spokesperson for Vegemite's maker, Kraft, reportedly has said, "The Food and Drug Administration doesn't allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid".

But Mr. Herndon said, "Nobody at the FDA has told them (Kraft) there is a ban".

Thanks for the clarification! :thumbsup:

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[Aquaman]

Any Aussies in the USA want me to bring some down Canada?

Cheers.
Aquaman

 

[Captante]

Uh... yeah. Not banned.

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/vegemite.asp

 

[tjaisv]

banned online gambling, now vegemite...what's a dude to do for fun now?

 

[judasmachine]

I'm quesy after reading this and flashbacks from having eaten that stuff. That being said, I think a ban for folic acid is a bit dracronion.

 

[Spamela]

i tried some a couple of weeks ago.

let's just say that making people eat it
is a gustatory analog to waterboarding.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
I'm quesy after reading this and flashbacks from having eaten that stuff. That being said, I think a ban for folic acid is a bit dracronion.

It is not, nor was it ever, banned. Look up a few posts.

 

[Paddington]

I think they meant to ban Dolemite.