To FDA:Revoke Sucralose Approval

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Action Alert To the FDA: Address the Citizens For Health Splenda

Petition Now! Revoke Sucralose Approval!

 

On April 7, 2006, Citizens For Health (CFH) filed a formal Petition

with the FDA, demanding that the FDA revoke its approval of sucralose,

which you know as Splenda. The reasons at the time were numerous, as

you can learn below. The FDA acknowledged receipt of the CFH Petition

the day it was received, but the agency hasn't been heard from since.

The Petition remains pending to this day under FDA Docket no. 2006P-0158.

 

By way of background, an FDA Petition is a formal procedure for

prompting action by the FDA. In theory, any citizen can do it. In

practice, the Petition process is almost always used by industry,

mainly because it's so complex. See for yourself by clicking on the

PDF for the Citizens For Health Petition here.

 

Next, you should know that it's a requirement that the FDA " must

respond within 180 days by either approving or denying the Petition

(in whole or in part), or providing a tentative response indicating

why FDA has been unable to reach a decision. " That hasn't happened in

this case, and we're coming up on the 3-year anniversary of the Petition.

 

Since we filed our Petition, we've raised awareness about the Splenda

issue several times. You can read some of our pieces by clicking here.

Also, you can get another look at CFH Chairman Jim Turner's recent

press release about the subject here.

 

But the most striking news are the results of a very recent research

study about Splenda from the Duke University Medical Center. This

report contains the following conclusion:

 

" The findings of this study indicate the Splenda suppresses beneficial

bacteria and directly affects the expression of . . . isozymes that

are known to interfere with the bioavailability of drugs and

nutrients. Furthermore, these effects occur at Splenda doses that

contain sucralose levels that are approved by the FDA for use in the

food supply. "

 

In other words, Splenda interferes with the body's ability to use food

and drugs properly.

 

Enough is enough! It's not as if we need it, but this is one more

reason to support AAHF's petition to Reform the FDA. More

specifically, the FDA must act now on our formal Petition. The FDA is

putting American citizens at risk. Here's a specific opportunity to

prove our mettle, and hold the FDA accountable. This is the chief

enforcer of our nation's food and drug laws that we're talking about

here. And what's more, this isn't even controversial -all we're doing

is demanding that the FDA do its job and follow its own rules.

 

Act now! Click on the Take Action Button to sign our email letter to

the FDA Docket Manager and the FDA Ombudsperson. You can help further

by forwarding this to friends, family and colleagues. Let's make a

difference on this one.

 

Citizens For Health

 

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