Letters: Right to safe food

There is no real vanilla in a vanilla ice cream or mango in a mango cream biscuit

With reference to “Government to restrict terms like ‘fresh’, ‘natural’ in food ads” (November 23), imagine a Tetra Pak of strawberry milkshake claiming to made from the “goodness” of “real” strawberries and additionally packed with vitamins and minerals. If you believe them to be true, then it is time to open your eyes. Famous American investigative journalist Eric Schlosser wrote long ago in his revealing book “Fast Food Nation” that there were 59 synthetic chemicals such as “amyl acetate, amyl butyrate.... vanillin, and solvent” to make the “strawberry flavour” in the said milkshake, not to speak of excessive sugar etc.