Oops! Seems that if you live in the United States you are too late.  According to all of our many and varied sources, the Fertilizer/Pesticide/Plant Growth Enhancer/Fungicide Product that contains more than 30% MSG is no longer being produced in the United States -- at least not for distribution in the United States.  And at least in California, Emerald BioAgriculture has withdrawn its registration.

It was, or is, called AuxiGro WP Plant Metabolic Primer (AuxiGro), and was, and still may be, produced by Emerald BioAgriculture of Butte, Montana and Lansing, Michigan.

What's wrong with using free glutamic acid, an amino acid found in protein, in a spray on crops?

What's wrong is that it's not the glutamic acid found in protein that is being sprayed on crops.  It's a manufactured product, and that manufactured product comes with contaminants that can not be eliminated.  It is manufactured -- in chemical plants -- where certain selected genetically engineered bacteria -- feeding on a liquid nutrient medium -- excrete the free glutamic acid they synthesize outside of their cell membrane into the liquid medium in which they are grown. In contrast, the free glutamic acid found in protein, and the free glutamic acid involved in normal human body function, is unprocessed free L-glutamic acid which contains no contaminants and has no contaminants associated with it.

No one knows what the long term effects of spraying processed free glutamic acid on crops will be. That there will be residue left in and/or on crops has not been disputed by Auxein/Emerald BioAgriculture. But no study of either the amount of that residue, or the least amount of processed free glutamic acid (MSG) needed to cause a reaction in an MSG-sensitive person, has ever been done.  No one knows how little glutamic acid is needed to kill a single brain cell or to trigger an adverse reaction.

Processed free glutamic acid causes neuroendocrine disorders and learning disorders in maturing animals that ingest processed free glutamic acid early in life.  Processed free glutamic acid crosses the placental barrier and causes learning disabilities in animal offspring of dams that ingest it.  Processed free glutamic acid has access to the brain through the blood-brain barrier, which is not impervious to the unregulated flow of processed free glutamic acid. The blood-brain barrier is immature at birth, and in some cases continues to develop up to puberty. In certain areas called the circumventricular organs, the blood barrier is never impervious to the unregulated flow of free glutamic acid. In addition, the blood-brain barrier is easily damaged by such events as high fever, drug use, stroke, ingestion of processed free glutamic acid, and the normal process of aging.

The glutamate industry research done in the 1970s that was submitted to the EPA by the Auxein/Emerald BioAgriculture that pretended to find that processed free glutamic acid is "safe," has been long refuted by independent scientists.

The National Institutes of Health recognize glutamic acid as being associated with addiction, stroke, epilepsy, degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and ALS, brain trauma, neuropathic pain, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression.  Pharmaceutical companies are spending millions of dollars in the development of drugs that will manage/mitigate the damaging effects of glutamic acid associated with addiction, stroke, epilepsy, degenerative disorders, and schizophrenia -- while the EPA is allowing Emerald BioAgriculture to spray it, without restriction, on fruits, nuts, grains, seeds, and vegetables as they grow.

In reviewing the application of Auxein Corporation for use of processed free glutamic acid in a spray to be applied to crops as they grow, the EPA failed to conform to the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which require, in part, that the EPA review any proposed action for validity, completeness, reliability, and relationship to human risk. The EPA also ignored Executive Order 13045 which requires government agencies to consider available information concerning the variability of the sensitivities of major identifiable subgroups of consumers, including infants and children.

For those who are interested, we provide a more detailed version of the above, detail of the EPA cover-up as seen through the words of the EPA's Dr. Janet Andersen and the activities of the EPA's Dr. Carol Foster, and a copy of the Truth in Labeling Campaign's objection to the approval of processed free glutamic acid (MSG) -- and AuxiGro -- for use on crops.  We also have a more complete description of AuxiGro and the processed free glutamic acid in it, a short history of the EPA's approval of use of processed free glutamic acid for spray on crops without restriction, and a look at the EPA's politics of approval.