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# Action Alert: Tell FDA to Remove Toxin, Making us Sick, From Food
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/carrageenan_0407130156/
- Published: 2013-04-07T14:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:26:23.000Z
- Description: The Cornucopia Institute asks readers to sign a petition urging the FDA to strike carrageenan from the list of allowed food additives, citing decades of animal experiments linking the additive to gastrointestinal inflammation, colitis-like disease and colon cancer.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Chemical, Food Safety, #vivvo-import

### **Action Alert** 
**Gut Wrenching!** 
**Tell FDA to Remove Toxin, Making us Sick, From Food**

[http://www.cornucopia.org/carrageenanfda/](http://www.cornucopia.org/carrageenanfda/?ref=foodconsumer.org)

April 7, 2013

Rates of digestive diseases are rising—ranging from widespread digestive discomfort (“belly bloat,” “spastic colon,” Irritable Bowel Syndrome) to serious and sometimes life-threatening diseases such as ulcerative colitis and colon cancer.

For decades, scientists conducting laboratory animal experiments using the **common food additive carrageenan** have found higher rates of gastrointestinal inflammation, colitis-like disease, and even colon cancer.

Carrageenan is a convenient and unique additive for the food industry. It is widely used in dairy products (chocolate milk, whipping cream, ice cream, nonfat sour cream), frozen dinners, dairy alternatives (soy milk, coconut milk, almond milk), prepared poultry and cold cuts, nutritional drinks, and even infant formula. It’s even in foods labeled “natural” and “organic.”

And selling carrageenan is a profitable enterprise for a handful of chemical corporations. For decades, these companies have spread misinformation—often, outright lies—about carrageenan’s safety.

And who has been more than willing to listen to the corporate scientists rather than to the scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health? That’s right: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In June 2012, the FDA rejected a request from the nation’s preeminent publicly funded scientist and carrageenan expert that carrageenan be removed from our food supply.

[**Sign our petition**](http://app.streamsend.com/c/18360853/12700/QGJZ2yq/9pOA?redirect%5Fto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cornucopia.org%2Fcarrageenanfda%2F%23petition&ref=foodconsumer.org) to the FDA to remove carrageenan from our food. Let the FDA know that it’s **time to act in the interest of our health and safety**. Carrageenan is a dangerous food additive, and should be removed from the list of allowed additives!

*The Cornucopia Institute P.O. Box 126 Cornucopia, WI 54827* [*www.cornucopia.org*](http://app.streamsend.com/c/18360853/12704/QGJZ2yq/9pOA?redirect%5Fto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cornucopia.org&ref=foodconsumer.org)