Food-added monosodium glutamate does not alter brain structure or antioxidant status.

The International Glutamate Technical Committee (IGTC) comments on a recent publication in "Pathophysiology" entitled "Evidence of alterations in brain structure and antioxidant status following "low-dose" monosodium glutamate ingestion" (authored by Onaolapo, Onaolapo, Akanmu and Gbola) [1]. In particular, IGTC highlights that, in the view of published scientific literature [2-12], the methods of this study were inappropriate and did not support conclusions drawn by the authors.