An open letter and a plea for help to anyone who cares about the freedom to buy food they want.

I am writing this as I URGENTLY need your help… UK Trading Standards are trying to make mesquite a novel food (according to the Novel Foods Act 1997, where any food not seen to be traded or consumed in Europe before May 1997 is not allowed to be sold as it may be unsafe). This act was supposedly designed to protect Europe against Genetically Modified foods. TSI have actually already declared it so to us over the phone. They only allowed us a couple of months to find evidence that it’s not a novel food, and we’ve didn’t manage to find any.

Businesses only have to keep records for six years, so to find proof that someone sold something in the EU 14 years ago, before the Internet, is almost impossible.

By the way, this declaration contradicts a clearing we had from them YEARS AGO, where they came to our warehouse and took several of our products for testing.

Unless we can find some last minute evidence, It’s looking likely that mesquite meal will be an ILLEGAL FOOD throughout the whole of the UK and Europe. It will be a huge loss for the whole of Europe as it’s a great superfood well as a good gluten free flour.

If you have any information on mesquite meal/pod (not mesquite wood smoke as in Kettle Chips) being sold in Europe before May 1997 please please please can you let us know? Please contact me directly on Facebook or Denise or Bryan at our office on 08700 113 119 (national rate call, not premium rate).

Please pass this on to anyone who may be able to help. We at Detox Your World are doing all we can to keep this superfood available for use in the UK and Europe and we appreciate any leads at all.

For more information on mesquite, and to stock up in case we have to withdraw it, please click here.

Bliss U

PS: We did this with the goji berry and won. It was a huge deal for us and took about a year (we don’t have that long this time), but we are glad we did it. Many people and companies in the wholefoods and superfoods businesses worked together on it. It’s times like these that working together really pays off. Let’s see if we can do it again, and stop the Europe-wide ban on a food that’s been eaten for thousands of years and has never harmed anyone (unlike GM foods which don’t belong in our paradise or body temples).

PPS: On a brighter note:

(Yes, you can stockpile mesquite with this offer)

PPPS: Have your say here.