--The FDA that approves both glutamate containing food ingredients and drugs to block the effects of glutamate.

--The FDA that can't find any reason to think that MSG might not be safe. The well documented studies of brain lesions and neuroendocrine disorders caused by ingestion of MSG aren't enough for them. (They may excuse themselves by telling you that those studies were done on laboratory animals and not on humans.)  And it would seem that it has never officially occurred to them that using "placebos" laced with neurotoxic amino acids (in industry sponsored double-blind studies that found no difference between test groups fed monosodium glutamate and control groups fed "placebos" laced with neurotoxic amino acids) is tantamount to fraud.  Or that they might want to reconsider their support for the glutamate industry and its badly flawed research.

--The FDA that ordered that their Adverse Reactions Monitoring System (ARMS) stop collecting reports of adverse reactions to MSG.

--The FDA that "just can't find" a copy of the $500,000 draft report on the safety of MSG in food done by FASEB for the FDA. That report was shown to Ajinomoto and friends but to no one else.  Industry had the $500,000 draft report rewritten; and industry had the original draft report suppressed.  It isn't available under Freedom of Information; a request for a copy by a United States Senator was denied; and the FDA refused to produce it under discovery when sued.

--The FDA that appointed Andrew G. Ebert, founder and chairman of [Ajinomoto's] International Glutamate Technical Committee, to the FDA Food Advisory Committee.

--The FDA that cooperates with the glutamate industry at every turn.  In September, 1969, then FDA Commissioner Ley testified before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Health, presenting evidence from four studies that, he alleged, demonstrated that MSG was safe. It was later disclosed that two of the studies Commissioner Ley cited were incomplete and two did not even exist.