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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (191868)	6/17/2012 1:27:14 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543660

Ok, I'll bite. Where did you get the strange notion that non-natural ingredients don't have to be labeled? Have you ever read a food label? Do you think calcium disodium EDTA or yellow dye #5 are natural ingredients? That's just a couple things listed on the can of Minute Maid Light "made with real lemons" lemonade I happen to have handy. I think alcohol / beer people managed to get themselves an exception to labeling requirements somehow. Mercifully, not the rest of the food industry. I don't know where you get the notion that patented ingredients don't need to be labeled. Do you think patented pharmaceuticals shouldn't be labeled with what, exactly, they are? The point of patents isn't to keep things secret, you know. You might be confusing patents with trade secrets. There is a very limited labeling exception for trade secrets, but not anything like you're apparently thinking (g) The label declaration of a harmless marker used to identify a particular manufacturer's product may result in unfair competition through revealing a trade secret. Exemption from the label declaration of such a marker is granted, therefore, provided that the following conditions are met: (1) The person desiring to use the marker without label declaration of its presence has submitted to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs full information concerning the proposed usage and the reasons why he believes label declaration of the marker should be subject to this exemption; and (2) The person requesting the exemption has received from the Commissioner of Food and Drugs a finding that the marker is harmless and that the exemption has been granted. My friend google was a little more obscure than usual looking this up, but it did come up with a fairly clear explanation of the rules from an unexpected source : kashrut.com . There's another somewhat broad exception, but it goes in the opposite direction of what you're assuming: A second exemption permits collective language for flavors and spices.2 A simple declaration of “natural flavors” is allowed to cover a host of ingredients used in a product.