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"Interestingly, the ajinomoto Company, primary manufacturer of MSG funded every article in the journal. They are getting desperate. Monosodium Glutamate Those of you who have not read my previous book probably have never even heard the word excitotoxin, so I will provide a brief overview of the substance. Monosodium glutamate is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, a form of glutamate, the (under normal circumstances) carefully regulated neurotransmitter I have already discussed. Glutamic acid is an amino acid that occurs naturally in many foods." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"In America it is called monosodium glutamate, in Japan ajinomoto, and it is known by other names in other countries. The substance was first developed in 1908 in the laboratory of Kikunae Ikeda as an isolate of a flavor-enhancing seaweed known as kombu or "sea tangle." Dr. Ikeda hardly could have suspected then that his work to identify the active substance in a seaweed which Japanese chefs had used for thousands of years would lead to a multi-billion-dollar industry in the twentieth century. Shortly after he isolated MSG, Dr. Ikeda became a partner in what would become the ajinomoto Company." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, Epilepsy, heart (Get the book.) "In 1909 he teamed up with another enterprising businessman, the former pharmacist Saburosuke Suzuki, and convinced him that they were on the verge of a business that could add a new flavor, Unami, to the world. The ajinomoto name was chosen as their trademark; this later became the name of the company responsible for the development and distribution of the flavor enhancer throughout the world. "Aji" means the origin, the beginning, or at the foot of; "moto" translates as taste or flavor. Therefore, ajinomoto literally signifies "at the origin of flavor." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, Epilepsy, heart (Get the book.) "Today ajinomoto produces more than half of the world's supply of MSG. In the early days, only once was the domination of the ajinomoto Company challenged. In China production of MSG began in the 1920s and reached almost 400,000 pounds annually by 1930. By the mid-1930s the Chinese were offering the Japanese serious competition with their product marketed under the name Vetsin. However, the Japanese invasion of coastal China in 1937 put the Chinese glutamate factories out of commission." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, Epilepsy, heart (Get the book.)

"But by then the excitotoxin "taste enhancing" business had become a mul-tibillion dollar enterprise. The ajinomoto company, the primary manufacturer of MSG and hydrolyzed vegetable protein, in conjunction with a dozen American food manufacturers, decided to protect their interest by forming a powerful public relations firm known as the Glutamate Association. The number one contributor to this "attack group" was the ajinomoto Company of Japan." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Get the book.)

"How MSG creates extraordinary profits for pharmaceutical companies Speaking of drugs, pharmaceutical companies owe a tremendous debt to the ajinomoto Company. The widespread use of MSG creates extraordinary profits for drug companies by creating health symptoms and MSG reactions that are typically treated with prescription drugs: In the 1980s one of the largest income-producing medications was Tagamet, and then other similar medications came along to treat indigestion (for example, Zantac, Accid, and Prilosec). Much of their patent action treats MSG side effects." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "Debra Lynn Dadd, Home Safe Home After MSG was first discovered to enhance the taste of foods, the ajinomoto Company was formed. This Japanese company now supplies the majority of MSG to food producers around the world. Following World War II, virtually all the major food manufacturers in the United States started adding millions of pounds of MSG each year to their processed, refined foods. It was originally thought to be perfectly safe, of course, and it certainly made their processed foods taste better." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "It is obvious that the FDA has been captured by the chief MSG manufacturer, the ajinomoto company, the food industries and their public relations organization, The Glutamate Association. By producing a multitude of spurious studies purportedly showing that MSG is safe as a food additive they can say with impunity, "The weight of the scientific evidence demonstrates that MSG is safe for human consumption." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "The number one contributor to this "attack group" was the ajinomoto Company of Japan. The purpose of this group was not only to defend and promote the use of MSG and other "taste enhancers", but to attack anyone who dared to point out the adverse health effects of MSG. They did this by bringing their own scientists into any area where a serious question about safety had been raised. In most cases consumer advocates are knowledgeable people who lack the scientific background to withstand an assault by a scientist steeped in the jargon of the pure and applied chemist." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"Carol Simontacchi The Crazy Makers faulty testing In one case, where the researcher used soup in the (MSG) study, the researchers obtained the soup from ajinomoto in Japan (the world's largest producer of MSG)... In these controlled studies, some subjects always react to MSG, but large numbers of subjects also react to a placebo. These studies conclude that since the subjects react to both MSG and placebos, it "proves" that it is not the MSG that people are reacting to..." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"In part thanks to funding from ajinomoto, we learn about the virrues of the flavor-enhancer MSG with no mention of the allergic reactions it triggers in some people. Or that ajinomoto makes MSG. And, within this thought trap's constricting hold, we don't think to ask: Which experts do we get to hear? In one of the few early research studies on the effects of consuming GMO foods, Dr." - Jeremy P. Tarcher, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Get the book.)

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