Ian points out an article on News.com.au that The US FDA have made Vegemite Illegal.
Apparently it’s because of Folic Acid, and border inspection guards are even searching people (presumably Australians) at entry for Vegemite.
Australian expatriates in the US said enforcement of the ban had been gradually stepped up and was now ruining lifelong traditions of Vegemite on toast for breakfast.
Kraft spokeswoman Joanna Scott said: “The (US) Food and Drug Administration doesn’t allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid.”
Crazy… just… crazy.
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I read the same article in Hobart’s Mercury newspaper. Why are we so surprised? American’s are becoming more paranoid with each passing day. Some friends informed us the other day that things are getting so bad in the States now that anyone who’s NOT an American is being treated as a suspected terrorist. James (our friend) informed us he was required to strip inside a room and then the air is removed and analised to determine if he had been exposed to explosives.
What happens to the poor bugger that works in a semtec factory??? Never to be seen again!!!
Banning Vegemite is just stupid though. But hey, that the good old USA for you!!
October 22nd, 2006 at 2:56 pm. Permalink.
[...] Posted in On the Intertron, Food, The Law by will on October 23, 2006. The story I wrote about yesterday has made it to digg (little wonder with News.com.au having the digg icon on it). digg - Vegemite banned in the United States. [...]
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:17 pm. Permalink.