What's in theToast Your Kids Eat for Breakfast?

[parsley]

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT

Food and Drug Regulations — Amendments

Interim Marketing Authorization

Provisions currently exist in the Food and Drug Regulations (the Regulations) for the use of the enzyme lipase derived from animal pancreatic tissue, Aspergillus niger var., Aspergillus oryzae var., edible forestomach tissue of calves, kids or lambs and Rhizopus oryzae var., in the production of bread, flour, whole wheat flour and unstandardized bakery products at maximum levels of use consistent with good manufacturing practice.

Health Canada has received a submission to permit the use of the lipase enzyme derived from a genetically modified Aspergillus niger strain, Aspergillus niger (LFS-54), that carries the gene from Fusariumculmorum coding for this enzyme. This lipase enzyme will be used in the production of bread, flour, whole wheat flour and unstandardized bakery products at maximum levels of use consistent with good manufacturing practice. Evaluation of available data supports the safety and effectiveness of this lipase derived from Aspergillus niger (LFS-54) in the production of bread, flour, whole wheat flour and unstandardized bakery products at maximum levels of use consistent with good manufacturing practice.

The use of this lipase will benefit consumers by increasing the availability of quality food products. It will also benefit industry through more efficient and improved manufacturing conditions.

Therefore, it is the intention of Health Canada to recommend that the Regulations be amended to permit the use of lipase derived from Aspergillus niger (LFS-54) in the production of bread, flour, whole wheat flour and unstandardized bakery products at maximum levels of use consistent with good manufacturing practice.

As a means to improve the responsiveness of the regulatory system, an Interim Marketing Authorization is being issued to permit the immediate use of lipase derived from Aspergillus niger (LFS-54) in the production of bread, flour, whole wheat flour and unstandardized bakery products at maximum levels of use consistent with good manufacturing practice while the regulatory process is undertaken to amend the Regulations. The standardized foods described above are exempted from the application of sections 6 and 6.1 of the Food and Drugs Act, paragraph B.01.042(c) and section B.16.007 of the Regulations. The unstandardized foods listed above are exempted from paragraph B.01.043(a) and section B.16.007 of the Regulations.

The proposed regulatory amendments would be enabling measures to allow the sale of the foods mentioned above that have been manufactured through the use of the lipase from Aspergillus niger (LFS-54). The amendments are supported by the safety assessment and would have low impact on the economy and on the environment. Consequently, the regulatory amendments may proceed directly to final approval and publication in the Canada Gazette, Part II.

Interested persons may make representations, with respect to Health Canada’s intention to amend the Regulations, within 75 days after the date of publication of this notice. All such representations must cite the Canada Gazette, Part I, and the date of publication of this notice, and be addressed to the contact person identified below.

Contact

Rick O’Leary, Acting Associate Director, Bureau of Food Regulatory, International and Interagency Affairs, Health Canada, 251 Sir Frederick Banting Driveway, Address Locator 2203B, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9, 613-957-1750 (telephone), 613-941-6625 (fax), sche-ann@hc-sc.gc.ca (email).

August 25, 2010

MEENA BALLANTYNE
Assistant Deputy Minister
Health Products and Food Branch

[37-1-o]

[charliep]

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12394713"]BBC[/URL]

[jamesb]

Parsley,
Organic growers such as yourself has always been anti GMO for many reasons that you or others talk about. The question i'd like to ask you is that, Do you ever see a point at which you could accept GMO's? IE x years testing, etc. I am not picking a fight over this here, id just like another opinion.

[parsley]

lipase

A friendly word for a spelling bee, isn't it.

(btw, I hate to see organics fall behind if everybody else is adding flavorful animal pancreatic tissue to flour. And to bread for the kids sandwiches.)

Well, charliep,(and thanks for the link) I just thought it was so expensive for a flour mill to go to all that expense to add lipase to flour if is merely a<p></p>
<p><strong>[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_additives,_Codex_Alimentarius"](food enhnacer)[/URL]</strong></p>

Cheapskate me, I wondered if a dab of vanilla would be a cheaper
"ingredient". Pars

[parsley]

With regards to lipase, james, I am curious why it is added to flour, bread and baked goods, aren't you?

Natural OR modified lipase wasn't my point.

About 85 million tons of wheat flour is used every year to bake bread.

Bread is a staple.

How much wheat flour does Canada export? If not, why not? Could we do something different to sell more flour?

We're familiar with iron and Vitamin B, but what about lipase? Pars

[jamesb]

I understand you have concerns about gmo. What I am asking is Do you ever see a point at which you could accept GMO's?

[cottonpicken]

We cant export flour because it is a value-add.

Value-add is also cost-add,the cost structure of
the product has changed and we cannot compete
for a variety of reasons-wage,various capital
costs,distribution and transport costs,etc,etc

Trust me this is the reason fish are pulled out of
lake winnipeg,shipped to china,processed,and
shipped back to our own store shelves.

Anybody pushing "value-add",needs to be taken
with a grain of salt on what they actually know.

[parsley]

For industrial purposes, other than food, I consider GM grains useful, and inventive and genius.

For example, a parachute made from simulated spider-web/dandelion material (off the top of my head lol) would get me jumping out of airplanes.(You'd assist.LOL)

But continaully introducing changes to basics such as flour, (85 million tons of wheat flour is used every year to bake bread), without regard for long term testing, or without regard for unintended consequences, that so many people will be exposed to, to me is flawed.

Social engineering is what it is.

If you argued that long term test studies, say 20 year, should be run on really confident volunteer farmers and their families,as some have indicated on AV, I'd agree, because the important word is "volunteer"

Mass experimentation is not the way to go.

You may argue, some people "need" immediate help. Corrective experimental action could be studied while presented to volunteers families who exhibit, for example,<p></p>
<p><strong>[URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11334614"](a genetic lipase condition)[/URL]</strong></p> in a <p></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/familial-lipoprotein-lipase-deficiency">(specific region)</a></strong></p>
Not trying to be difficult, James, I'd sooner be reading my new book. Pars

[cottonpicken]

What book?

[parsley]

[parsley]

An astonishing book named "Purge" written by Sofi Oksanen, and just published in English.

I just re-read parts of it. I will read it again in its' entirely before spring. Pars

[parsley]

Industry creates buyproducts.

1. Dumping garbage costs money.
2. Selling a byproduct realizes additional revenue.
3. Long-term byproduct sales-contracts are desirable.
4. Legislated use, by others who pay for your byproduct, is the ultimate solution to waste.
5. Whey is a byproduct that obviously developed worth.

6. btw, Aren't Calcium and Vitamin D to be used in concert?

Pars

[parsley]

@16:07

My cut and paste went into pieces after (WHO) sorry. Should be:

(WHO)

would purchase flour "enhanced" with ever-increasing additives used in the West, such as calcium sulphate. Or additives that comes from whey products?

Many additives are byproducts but do they really need to be added to bread?
Would that possibly be Western farmers most likely to lobby the government for additives?

Would that possibly be whey leftovers from Ontario and Quebec cheesemakers?

Nah

[cottonpicken]

It looks interesting,i will definitely pick it up,not my
particular genre but right up the miss's alley.

Comes from one of the few "grown-up"countries,i cant
wait to take a trip up there.

Vitamin d isn't as simplistic as it looks,vie heard its
one of those things your body cant get rid off and
builds up in your liver,but not sure.

[parsley]

It's a graphic living example of what socialist/communist/leninist/regimes do to society, to people, to psyches.
It's a book you would grasp and absorb so well, cott.