On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:51:32 -0000, Ophelia wrote:

> "blake murphy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> your very welcome, o. stay on him if you want the pure powder, though. i
>> don't recall it being said m.s.g. was carcinogenic, but it probably has.
>>
>> i just find it baffling that a compound so stable, cheap and in wide use
>> (that's not a narcotic) is not readily available in the u.k.
>
> The stuff they were meant to get in was a paste, not a powder. He said he
> would call me if he got any in, but he didn't sound hopeful.

If it was a paste then it was hydrolyzed corn or yeast protein.
Which is currently what is being recalled here in the US.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/HVPCP/

Vegemite and Marmite are pastes based on Hydrolyzed Yeast Proteins.
AKA glutamic acids. AKA MSG. Perhaps that is what he was referring
to. MSG is an elongated crystal in it's raw form. Never a paste.

-sw