Just when it seemed as if Vegemite lovers and Australian expatriates were considering holding an emergency session to discuss what life would be like in the U.S. without Vegemite, it appears all that aggravation was a bit premature.

It seems the Vegemite ban hoopla has started from a single report which claimed that U.S. has banned Vegemite, and U.S. customs authorities are cracking down on all attempts to bring Vegemite into the United States.

The US Government today dismissed media reports it had banned Vegemite. “There is no ban on Vegemite,” US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman Mike Herndon said.

Apparently, Vegemite’s maker Kraft assumed that FDA “does not allow the import of Vegemite“. But FDA expressed its surprise by such reports and noted that it has never told Kraft there was a ban in the first place. [via Consumerist]