WHAT NEXT...Now our Dairy Products????

I know how stronly u must feel about this for u to write a discussion. I feel the same way. Looks like they are just asking for bad trouble to do this. take care. love ya!

That is fraudulent! All we have is the label with ingredients. If that is a lie then what do we have then? Nothing to go by. Huge danger of being lied to too. We need to know what is being put in our food!!

That's disgraceful but I really don't see how they can get away with doing that as there must be laws as well as protocols that prevent such things from happening, surely ??

Oh no, aspartame has links to Ahlzeimer's. That is really bad. I don't use any artificial sweeteners if I can help it. Also, I see this discussion is one month old. It just now appeared in my inbox. I'm really ticked. So sorry I'm late!

there is no way they can do that since its illegal.

Sweeteners have replaced sugar in many drinks here for several reasons : the price of sugar is rising in Europe -- a few years ago, many factories producing beet sugar had to close, due to production quotas imposed by the EEC which decided also to buy cane sugar to help some foreign countries : these countries have never been able to supply the quantity they promised, and the price of sugar rose by 50% in the past 3 years -- and we have in my country a sin tax on drinks with sugar. But when sugar is not employed, it is mandatory to write the sweetener used on the label. I have read Lamb's comments saying that Aspartame will be on the label, yet I think you have to stay mobilized to be sure that it will be, and a discussion like this one is important to inform people and keep them watchful.

Yikes!!! I stopped drinking regular milk and started drinking organic almond milk a few months back for a different reason and now I am glad I did. Now I need to convince my family to switch.

I´m with you, this sounds ludicrous. It´s bad enough that they´d put this stuff in food, but not telling consumers is even worse.

Hmmm. Well, I'm not one of those people who is beating down doors to label everything. I don't want the costs of doing that passed on to me as a consumer when I don't actually require it - but I do think that labels and nutritional information for EVERYTHING should be available on demand FOR anybody who DOES want it. The reason I don't really personally care about it is because I'm not one of those consumers who has food allergies or sensitivities to anything like dyes, flavors, or artificial sweeteners. I don't think there's a HUGE population with a sensitivity, I think the people who are sensitive just scream the loudest. Lots of people complain about artificial sweeteners and complain that they are bad for everybody and make everybody sick and kill people. That is not true. If you have a sensitivity, then yes, you should avoid them.... meaning YOU, the person who is sensitive. There is no reason to create paranoia and false upset and make EVERYBODY think they are ALL in danger when that is far from the truth. I am also sick of people trying to address childhood obesity or obesity in general with attacks on FOOD. If we want to address childhood obesity or the obesity epidemic, let's focus on getting active, NOT FOOD. We need PE required EVERY DAY for all 12 years of mandatory school as well as at least a year or two requirement in college for young adults. Companies and corporations should give breaks or compensation for gym memberships or healthy actions such as proof that you are part of a team (like softball, basketball etc) or that you signed up to run a marathon. I think it's time to put the responsibility on consumers to find out what is in things and to make personal choices regarding what they purchase, eat, and use. Not to have government with their paws in it or guidelines that interfere with anybody's choices.

That is the worse news that I have heard in a long time. Aspartame has been a proven neurotoxin and the F.D.A has lots of studies that show it's horrible side effects. When aspartame gets to cold it breaks down into a piperazine that is horrible for you and when it gets to warm it breaks down to formaldehyde. Plenty of evidence has been presented to the FDA showing how bad aspartame is for you. I think aspartame is another prime example of how we are continuing to try and use chemical means to correct problems that need to be adjusted through behavior and personal choices. Instead of avoiding these things that are highly packed with sugar and bad for us we try to alter it chemically so we can still drink our soda and still eat our junk food. Instead of changing our food chemically to avoid obesity we should just start making the right food choices and get up off the couch and exercise once in a while. The thing people aren't realizing is that all of the diseases that can affect us are often caused by the choices that we made. I really hope that this plan doesn't go through because it is already hard enough to avoid high fructose corn syrup, sucralose, hydrogenated oils, preservatives, aspartame, bleached flour, and all the other junk that is in our food. We really don't need food to contain it without it being labeled.

There is a gray area here that keeps popping up at the different articles I've read on this. The labeling issue I thought was they didn't not want to label it as 'reduced calorie' BUT, if they don't have to label it as 'reduced calorie' then does that mean they won't list the aspartame? I would think they would have to list all ingredients and then it's up to the consumer to read it or not.

That would be something that would be absolutely horrible to do because I know that there are a lot of people that aren't able to tolerate aspartame. I am one of those people, someone doesn't even have to tell me that something has aspartame in it and I will be asking them about it within about twenty minutes after consuming something because aspartame is something that gives me a severe headache. That would be terrible to people like me to not be able to consume dairy products because of an additive.

I don't think that it is a wise idea to completely make use Aspartame as replacement for sugar. Although what they can do is to have another variant of their products and properly label it as having ASPARTAME.

Same kinda thing here in Mexico. Now come reports that some milks have more water than they are supposed to have in them. Very sad...

I have never heard this one yet. I would think if they are really going to do this without listing ingredients, can't they get in trouble? I have heard it is illegal now to not list ingredients for what you might consider wanting to eat for the day. But wouldn't people know what it is, because they find the items where those type of items are sold.

That's taking the "nanny state" to new heights! I cannot imagine that they would get away with it but wouldn't be surprised if they did. They are working very hard to take the care of children out of the hands of parents, although why parents just can't say no to flavored milk is beyond me. If it happens I hope it gets a lot of publicity and there is a flurry of lawsuits.

That's pretty darn outrageous. If people don't have a problem with aspartame in their milk, fine, but then it should be clearly labeled so that people can choose.

This is just not on. I am glad that it is still in the petition stage and hasn't been made law. Aspartame is not a good thing to ut in daity products at all. But it can't happen as I am sure the people will speak out and be heard by government. At least - I hope so

Hello pergammano this is checkmail and do think all edible products should be spared form chemicals and added flavor which require certain chemicals.Even few of preservative class chemicals should be banned as food seems to be fresh despite its been wasted.And in milk mine, i just wonder how would it result in upcoming future, as milk is our basic diet form early childhood till older ages.

Hi pergammano! Bad, bad, bad - hogwash, like you said. If the dairy industry feels a responsible to society to reduce childhood obesity, well first they also need to be responsible in telling us what exactly is in their product. Why is there a need to sneak in an artificial ingredient (now would it REALLY help - that's another discussion altogether). . . really it seems it's a way to trick people into thinking "see, cow milk is a natural product keep people slim" . . . but most likely it will host another set of health problems. If only people could be more educated about better choices in their diet . . . but if people are misled about even dairy, they would never have a chance in the first place. We never buy flavored milks and are now trying to get away from pre-flavored yogurts.