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Timeline
December 1965-- While working on an
ulcer drug, James Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle,
accidentally discovers aspartame, a substance that is
180 times sweeter than sugar yet has no calories.
Spring 1967-- Searle begins the safety
tests on aspartame that are necessary for applying for
FDA approval of food additives.
Fall 1967-- Dr. Harold Waisman, a biochemist
at the University of Wisconsin, conducts aspartame safety
tests on infant monkeys on behalf of the Searle Company.
Of the seven monkeys that were being fed aspartame mixed
with milk, one dies and five others have grand mal seizures.
November 1970-- Cyclamate, the reigning
low-calorie artificial sweetener -- is pulled off the
market after some scientists associate it with cancer.
Questions are also raised about safety of saccharin,
the only other artificial sweetener on the market, leaving
the field wide open for aspartame.
December 18, 1970-- Searle Company
executives lay out a "Food and Drug Sweetener Strategy'
that they feel will put the FDA into a positive frame
of mind about aspartame. An internal policy memo describes
psychological tactics the company should use to bring
the FDA into a subconscious spirit of participation"
with them on aspartame and get FDA regulators into the
"habit of saying, "Yes"."
Spring 1971-- Neuroscientist Dr. John
Olney (whose pioneering work with monosodium glutamate
was responsible for having it removed from baby foods)
informs Searle that his studies show that aspartic acid
(one of the ingredients of aspartame) caused holes in
the brains of infant mice. One of Searle's own researchers
confirmed Dr. Olney's findings in a similar study.
February 1973-- After spending tens
of millions of dollars conducting safety tests, the
G.D. Searle Company applies for FDA approval and submits
over 100 studies they claim support aspartame's safety.
March 5, 1973-- One of the first FDA
scientists to review the aspartame safety data states
that "the information provided (by Searle) is inadequate
to permit an evaluation of the potential toxicity of
aspartame". She says in her report that in order
to be certain that aspartame is safe, further clinical
tests are needed.
May 1974-- Attorney, Jim Turner (consumer
advocate who was instrumental in getting cyclamate taken
off the market) meets with Searle representatives to
discuss Dr. Olney's 1971 study which showed that aspartic
acid caused holes in the brains of infant mice.
July 26, 1974-- The FDA grants aspartame
its first approval for restricted use in dry foods.
August 1974-- Jim Turner and Dr. John
Olney file the first objections against aspartame's
approval.
March 24, 1976-- Turner and Olney's
petition triggers an FDA investigation of the laboratory
practices of aspartame's manufacturer, G.D. Searle.
The investigation finds Searle's testing procedures
shoddy, full of inaccuracies and "manipulated"
test data. The investigators report they "had never
seen anything as bad as Searle's testing."
January 10, 1977-- The FDA formally requests
the U.S. Attorney's office to begin grand jury proceedings
to investigate whether indictments should be filed against
Searle for knowingly misrepresenting findings and "concealing
material facts and making false statements" in
aspartame safety tests. This is the first time in the
FDA's history that they request a criminal investigation
of a manufacturer.
January 26, 1977-- While the grand
jury probe is underway, Sidley & Austin, the law
firm representing Searle, begins job negotiations with
the U.S. Attorney in charge of the investigation, Samuel
Skinner.
March 8, 1977-- G. D. Searle hires
prominent Washington insider Donald Rumsfeld as the
new CEO to try to turn the beleaguered company around.
A former Member of Congress and Secretary of Defense
in the Ford Administration, Rumsfeld brings in several
of his Washington cronies as top management.
July 1, 1977-- Samuel Skinner leaves
the U.S. Attorney's office and takes a job with Searle's
law firm. (see Jan. 26th)
August 1, 1977-- The Bressler Report,
compiled by FDA investigators and headed by Jerome Bressler,
is released. The report finds that 98 of the 196 animals
died during one of Searle's studies and weren't autopsied
until later dates, in some cases over one year after
death. Many other errors and inconsistencies are noted.
For example, a rat was reported alive, then dead, then
alive, then dead again; a mass, a uterine polyp, and
ovarian neoplasms were found in animals but not reported
or diagnosed in Searle's reports.
December 8, 1977-- U.S. Attorney Skinner's
withdrawal and resignation stalls the Searle grand jury
investigation for so long that the statue of limitations
on the aspartame charges runs out. The grand jury investigation
is dropped.
June 1, 1979-- The FDA established
a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) to rule on safety issues
surrounding NutraSweet.
September 30, 1980-- The Public Board
of Inquiry concludes NutraSweet should not be approved
pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals.
The board states it "has not been presented with
proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe
for use as a food additive."
January 1981-- Donald Rumsfeld, CEO
of Searle, states in a sales meeting that he is going
to make a big push to get aspartame approved within
the year. Rumsfeld says he will use his political pull
in Washington, rather than scientific means, to make
sure it gets approved.
January 21, 1981-- Ronald Reagan is
sworn in as President of the United States. Reagan's
transition team, which includes Donald Rumsfeld, CEO
of G. D. Searle, hand picks Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr.
to be the new FDA Commissioner.
March, 1981-- An FDA commissioner's
panel is established to review issues raised by the
Public Board of Inquiry.
May 19, 1981-- Three of six in-house
FDA scientists who were responsible for reviewing the
brain tumor issues, Dr. Robert Condon, Dr. Satya Dubey,
and Dr. Douglas Park, advise against approval of NutraSweet,
stating on the record that the Searle tests are unreliable
and not adequate to determine the safety of aspartame.
July 15, 1981-- In one of his first
official acts, Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr., the new FDA commissioner,
overrules the Public Board of Inquiry, ignores the recommendations
of his own internal FDA team and approves NutraSweet
for dry products. Hayes says that aspartame has been
shown to be safe for its' proposed uses and says few
compounds have withstood such detailed testing and repeated
close scrutiny.
October 15, 1982-- The FDA announces
that Searle has filed a petition that aspartame be approved
as a sweetener in carbonated beverages and other liquids.
July 1, 1983-- The National Soft Drink
Association (NSDA) urges the FDA to delay approval of
aspartame for carbonated beverages pending further testing
because aspartame is very unstable in liquid form. When
liquid aspartame is stored in temperatures above 85
degrees Fahrenheit, it breaks down into DKP and formaldehyde,
both of which are known toxins.
July 8, 1983-- The National Soft Drink
Association drafts an objection to the final ruling
which permits the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages
and syrup bases and requests a hearing on the objections.
The association says that Searle has not provided responsible
certainty that aspartame and its' degradation products
are safe for use in soft drinks.
August 8, 1983-- Consumer Attorney,
Jim Turner of the Community Nutrition Institute and
Dr. Woodrow Monte, Arizona State University's Director
of Food Science and Nutritional Laboratories, file suit
with the FDA objecting to aspartame approval based on
unresolved safety issues.
September, 1983-- FDA Commissioner
Hayes resigns under a cloud of controversy about his
taking unauthorized rides aboard a General Foods jet.
(General foods is a major customer of NutraSweet) Burson-Marsteller,
Searle's public relation firm (which also represented
several of NutraSweet's major users), immediately hires
Hayes as senior scientific consultant.
Fall 1983-- The first carbonated beverages
containing aspartame are sold for public consumption.
November 1984-- Center for Disease
Control (CDC) "Evaluation of consumer complaints
related to aspartame use." (summary by B. Mullarkey)
November 3, 1987-- U.S. hearing, "NutraSweet:
Health and Safety Concerns," Committee on Labor
and Human Resources, Senator Howard Metzenbaum, chairman.
THIS
(E-MAIL) IS VERY IMPORTANT...EVEN LIFE SAVING OR EVEN
LIFE THREATENING. EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW THESE FACTS.
PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY BECAUSE IT WILL TELL YOU
HOW THIS DANGEROUS PRODUCT WAS ALLOWED TO BE USED IN
PRODUCTS.
OVER
A YEAR AGO I HEARD ABOUT THE RISKS OF ASPARTAME AND
BEGAN SOME RESEARCH. I WAS ANGERED WHEN I FOUND THERE
WAS SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION THAT WAS PRESENTED ABOUT
THE DANGERS OF ASPARTAME AND ITS CHEMICAL MODIFICATIONS
IN THE BODY AND ENVIRONMENT. I WENT TO THE GROCERY STORE
THIS WEEK AND NOTED THE NUMBER OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING
ASPARTAME AND WAS ASTONISHED. JUST BECAUSE FDA APPROVED
THE PRODUCT, THEREBY PROTECTING THEM FROM LAW SUITS,
THE FOOD INDUSTRY HAS JUMPED ON THE BAND WAGON AND IS
PUTTING IT IN JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. LOOK AT THE LABELS.
BE SURE AND READ THE ATTACHMENT FOR A CLEAR PICTURE
OF THE WAY THIS DANGEROUS PRODUCT GOT APPROVAL. SADLY
IT IS A COMMON WAY OF GETTING FDA APPROVALS. POLITICS,
PROMISES OF BETTER JOBS, ETC. LET OTHERS KNOW.
LEON
Importance:
High
Folks:
Please pass this on to all of your e-mail friends. In
October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick.
She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time
getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything
she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.
By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and
muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications.
The doctors could not determine what was wrong with
her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew
she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life
insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and
made sure that her younger children were to be taken
care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned
a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March
22nd. On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent
tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on
the test, but they believe she had MS. I recalled an
article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked
my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she
did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack
one open that moment. I told her not to open it, and
to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her the article
my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within
32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she
had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!
The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel
100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she
was going to her doctor with this article and would
call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and
said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all
of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial
sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being
poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda... and literally
dying a slow and miserable death. When she got to Florida
Mar ch 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that
was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well
on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking!
No wheelchair! This article saved her life. If it says
'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,'
'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the
EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001
there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
lupus .. It was difficult to determine exactly what
toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and
said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the
temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F,
the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde
and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic
acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting
of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other
conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many
people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple
sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity
is! Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple
sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi
drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the
Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use;
irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become
a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients
with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off
diet sodas. In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple
Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen
many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss
improved markedly. This also applies t o cases of tinnitus
and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, "If
you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful,
etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms,
shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo,
dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexp lainable
depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred
vision, or memory loss, you probably have ASPARTAME
poisoning!" People were jumping up during the lecture
saying, "I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?"
Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert
for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified
with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one
of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to
be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to
a hospice, a nurse stated that six of her friends, who
were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed
with MS. This is beyond coincid ence! Diet soda is NOT
a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple
SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that
actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more
likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also
contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells,
particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is
an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve
"tissue specimens." Many products we use every
day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it
IN our body! Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures
that once free of the "diet products" and
with no significant increase in exercise; his patients
lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period. Aspartame
is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that
some physicians, who believed that they had a patient
with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame.
The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control.
Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the
fact that aspartic acid and phe nylalanine are NEUROTOXIC
when taken without the other amino acids necessary for
a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.
Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the
blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons
of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage,
seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks,
uncontrollable anger and rage. Consumption of Aspartame
causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well.
Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands
of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete
turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have
been removed from their diet. So called "behavior
modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others)
are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never
NEEDED i n the first place! Most of these children were
being "poisoned" on a daily basis with the
very foods that were "better for them than sugar."
Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting
in the Gulf War, may be the cause of the Gulf War syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e.
mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception
and during early pregnancy. Children are especially
at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER
be given artificial sweeteners. There are many diff
erent case histories to relate of children suffering
grande mal seizures and other neurological disturbances
due to the use of NutraSweet. Unfortunately, it is not
always easy to convince people that Aspartame is to
blame for their child's illness. Stevia, which is a
sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in the
metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics.
It has now been approved as a dietary supplement by
the FDA. It is known that for many years the FDA outlawed
this true sweet food," due to their loyalty to
MONSANTO Chemical Company." Books on this subject
are available: EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS written
by Dr. Russell Blaylock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665)
AND: DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE-written by
DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist. These
two doctors will soon be posting a position paper on
the Internet with case histories on the deadly effects
of Aspartame. According to the Conference of the American
College of Physicians, "We are talking about a
plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the
us of this deadly poison." Herein lies the problem:
There were Congressional Hearings when information concerning
its dangerwas presented made concerning its use. Since
this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent
hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug
and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly,
MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are
now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this
deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced.
Everybody wants a "piece of the Aspartame pie."
I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame,
knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO
funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association,
the American Dietetic Association and the Conference
of the American College of Physicians? This has! be
en recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations]
cannot criticize any additives or convey their link
to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry
and are required to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill
that would require label warnings on products containing
Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children
and infants. The bill would also institute independent
studies on the known dangers and the problems existing
in the general population regarding seizures, changes
in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral
symptoms. The bill was killed. It is known that the
powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for
this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death
on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're
informed now! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW! Please print
this out and/or e-mail to your family and fr iends.
They have a right to know too.Rense.com
How Aspartame Became
Legal - The Timeline
From Rich Murray
rmforall@att.net
12-24-2From Norfolk Genetic Information Network (Taken
from Welcome to the Spin Machine by Michael Manville
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2001/04/biotech/ http://www.freezerbox.com/
)
In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical
company that held the patent to aspartame, the active
ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled
by aspartame's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board
of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists,
which confirmed that it "might induce brain tumors."
The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this
finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld
(currently the Secretary of Defense) vow to "call
in his markers," to get it approved.
On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration,
Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame
in food sweetener, and Reagan's new FDA commissioner,
Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., appointed a 5-person Scientific
Commission to review the board of inquiry's decision.
It soon became clear that the panel would uphold the
ban by a 3-2 decision, but Hull then installed a sixth
member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked.
He then personally broke the tie in aspartame's favor.
Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety,
served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College,
and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the
chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD
Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly
about aspartame.
The Aspartame/NutraSweet Timeline
http://www.swankin-turner.com/aspartame.html http://www.swankin-turner.com/hist.html
Aspartame/NutraSweet: The History of the Aspartame Controversy
By James Turner, ESQ. Director of the National Institute
of Science, Law, and Public Policy (NISLAPP)
National Institute of Science, Law, and Public Policy
1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20036
(202) 462-8800 Fax: (202) 265-6564 nislapp@swankin-turner.com
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/857
RTM: www.dorway.com: original documents and long reviews
of flaws in aspartame toxicity research 7.31.2 rmforall
http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt UPI reporter Gregory
Gordon: 96K 3-part expose Oct 1987
"Survey of aspartame studies: correlation of outcome
and funding sources," 1998, unpublished: http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html
Walton found 166 separate published studies in the peer
reviewed medical literature, which had relevance for
questions of human safety. The 74 studies funded by
industry all (100%) attested to aspartame's safety,
whereas of the 92 non-industry funded studies, 84 (91%)
identified a problem. Six of the seven non-industry
funded studies that were favorable to aspartame safety
were from the FDA, which has a public record that shows
a strong pro-industry bias. Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof.
of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio Universities,
College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown,
OH 44501, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine,
Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240
Youngstown, OH 44501 330-740-3621 rwalton193@aol.com
http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm ***********************************
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