{"id":984,"date":"2020-07-22T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T15:37:06","slug":"if-msg-is-natural-why-have-hundreds-of-patents-been-issued-for-methods-of-producing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/22\/if-msg-is-natural-why-have-hundreds-of-patents-been-issued-for-methods-of-producing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If MSG is \u2018natural\u2019 why have hundreds of patents been issued for methods of producing it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Monosodium glutamate (MSG) found in an animal, vegetable, or mineral was manufactured and then ingested or added in some manner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Below are just three examples of patents pertaining to the manufacture of MSG.  There are literally hundreds more.  MSG is man-made.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>  US3281247A &#8211; Process for producing monosodium glutamate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US3281247A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US3281247A\/en<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>  CN104211611A &#8211; New fermentation technology of sodium glutamate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/CN104211611A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/CN104211611A\/en<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>  WO1996031459A1 &#8211; A process for the preparation of monosodium glutamate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/WO1996031459A1\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/WO1996031459A1\/en<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Below are general discussions pertaining to methods used in production of MSG (written by scientists, not by Ajinomoto\u2019s hired hands).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>.  Optimization of glutamic acid production by Corynebacterium glutamicum using response surface methodology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naiyf S. Alharbia, Shine Kadaikunnana, Jamal M. Khaleda, Taghreed N. Almanaaa,Ganesh Moorthy Innasimuthub, Baskar Rajooc, Khalid F. Alanzia, Shyam Kumar Rajaram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Journal of King Saud University &#8211; Science.  Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 1403-1408.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1018364719318440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1018364719318440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>. Tasty waste: industrial fermentation and the creative destruction of MSG<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah E. Tracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food, Culture &amp; Society (2019).  22:5, 548-65, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15528014.2019.1638117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15528014.2019.1638117<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you have questions or comments, we\u2019d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we\u2019ll put them up on&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Truth-in-Labeling-Campaign-114093959577\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/truthlabeling\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twitter @truthlabeling<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monosodium glutamate (MSG) found in an animal, vegetable, or mineral was manufactured and then ingested or added in some manner. Below are just three examples of patents pertaining to the manufacture of MSG. There are literally hundreds more. MSG is man-made. 1. US3281247A &#8211; Process for producing monosodium glutamate https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US3281247A\/en 2. CN104211611A &#8211; New fermentation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/22\/if-msg-is-natural-why-have-hundreds-of-patents-been-issued-for-methods-of-producing-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If MSG is \u2018natural\u2019 why have hundreds of patents been issued for methods of producing it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,224,223,222,24],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-monosodiumglutamate","tag-msgmanufactured","tag-msgnotnatural","tag-msgpatents","tag-truthinlabelingcampaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}