The Food and Drug Administration is reevaluating standards and food labeling for products defined as gluten-free.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday that it will be re-examining the standards by which foods on supermarket shelves can be labeled as “gluten-free”.

Currently, the amount of gluten permitted in “gluten-free” items available in stores can vary.

The FDA says that it is aiming to “eliminate uncertainty about how food producers may label their products,” as well as “assure consumers who must avoid gluten that foods labeled ‘gluten-free’ meet a clear standard established and enforced by the FDA.”

Gluten inflames the small intestine of people who suffer from celiac disease; the protein, commonly found in wheat, barley, and rye, is often used as a stabilizing agent in as assortment of foods such as condiments, ice cream, and soy sauce.

Food additives are now a main ingredient of the American diet.

Additives, which were developed to help preserve food freshness, have become a health hazard to millions.

Read on for more details.

These top ten are particularly harmful.

Artificial Sweeteners
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Monosodium Glutamate
Trans Fat
Common Food Dyes
Sodium Sulfate
Sodium Nitrate/Sodium Nitrate
BHA and BHT
Sulphur Dioxide
Potassium Bromate

A typical American household spends about 90 percent of their food budget on processed foods, and are in doing so exposed to a plethora of artificial food additives, many of which can cause dire consequences to your health.

Many different types of milk (other than an infant formula) have been given to babies in the past, but we now know that a lot of these are not suitable for babies and can cause serious health problems.

The base in the majority of infant formulas comes from cow’s milk, goat’s milk or soy beans, which has been modified or changed with important nutrients added so that the formula is similar to breast milk in nutrient composition.

It’s not a perfect match because the exact chemical make-up of breast milk is unknown.

The Food and Drug Administration is telling parents, health care workers and people who take care of babies to avoid using a thickener for breast milk or formula fed to premature infants.

A product called SimplyThick may be causing life-threatening damage to children’s intestines, the agency said.

The FDA, which first learned about possible problems with SimplyThick on May 13, is now aware of 15 cases of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), including two deaths.

In all those cases, the FDA says SimplyThick gel was added to the formula or breast milk fed to the babies, who had trouble swallowing because of complications from their premature birth.