QUORN BAN CALL
December 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
A US consumer watchdog is intensifying its campaign to have the meat substitute, Quorn, taken off supermarket shelves, despite Britain's Food Standards Agency's (FSA) rejection of claims that it is unsafe. Despite this assessment, influential American lobby group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has continued urging the US Food and Drug Administration to ban the product, citing allergic reactions involving nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. Its website www.QuornComplaints.com contains claims from more than 550 Americans and ...
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