Enter your number to get our free mobile app
“This includes studies for cancer, reproductive impairment and other adverse effects called for by FDA’s Redbook, the Bible of food and color additive testing. We find this to be all the more troubling because a number of potential adverse effects were detected in a short-term rat trial: disruption of reproductive cycles and reduced uterine weights in females and biomarkers of anemia, reduced clotting ability and kidney problems.” (CFS).
To make the GMO heme, Impossible Foods uses what is called synthetic biology which extracts DNA from the roots of soy plants where a small amount of heme is produced. They then insert that DNA into genetically engineered yeast. The yeast ferments and that process mass-produces the genetically engineered heme.
Agriculture
your username
January 29, 2021
The Center for Food Safety filed a reply brief on Thursday in its Ninth Circuit lawsuit challenging the red food coloring additive placed in some of Impossible Foods’ meat products to cause the appearance of “bleeding” helping the product resemble actual meat. The plaintiff argued in the lawsuit that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not sufficiently test the additive, soy leghemoglobin, or heme, before approving the product.
The lawsuit was filed against the FDA, and Impossible Foods intervened as a respondent. The Center for Food Safety argued in its brief that the FDA did not “apply the convincing evidence standard” when approving the color additive and that its decision to approve the additive was not sufficiently supported. It asked the Ninth Circuit to vacate the FDA’s decision to approve the product and to conduct further tests before approving the product.