date:Jan 03, 2014
Imports of the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) from China and Indonesia are likely harming the U.S. market, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) found in November following a preliminary investigation.
The tentative decision was encouraging news for America's sole manufacturer of MSG, Ajinomoto North America, Inc., whose parent company is said to have discovered and patented MSG in Japan in 1909.
In a preliminary determination, the USITC ruled the subject imports had a sign