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Aspartame - History of fraud and deception
Today we have "Nutra-Sweet", which is widely used in a
plethora of consumables, despite a demonstrated neurological reaction in some
people. In February 1996, it was decided to also use the product name "Benevia".
It is estimated that as many as 20,000,000 people cannot metabolize
phenylalimine, and this inability is genetically inherited by children. The
inability to metabolize phenylalinine can lead to mental retardation in
children. This means a risk of retardation for millions of children. A
multi-billion dollar enterprise, this substance is said to be "refined" from "natural"substances.
Like other "refined" substances, it represents a health threat to the general
public. No long term studies have been performed to evaluate the physiological
effects of this substance, yet the public is lead to believe it is absolutely
safe. Technically, the chemical is called aspartame, and it was once on a
Pentagon list of biowarfare chemicals submitted to Congress. [1] Aspartame is in
over 4,000 products worldwide and is consumed by over 200 million people in the
United States alone. What follows is a skeletal examination of the chronology
related to aspartame. A more detailed chronology is given later in this chapter
based on information provided to us by the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network.
Aspartame is produced by G.D. Searle Company, founded in
1888 and located in Skokie, Illinois. Searle is now owned by others. It is about
200 times sweeter than the refined sugar that it is meant to replace, and it is
known to erode intelligence and affect short-term memory. It is essentially a
chemical weapon designed to impact populations en masse. It is an rDNA
derivative made from two amino acids, L-phenylalanine, L-aspartic acid and
methanol. Originally discovered during a search for an ulcer drug in 1966, it
was "approved" by the FDA in 1974 as a "food additive".
Approval was followed by a retraction based on
demonstrated public concern over the fact that the substance produced brain
tumors in rats. According to the 1974 FDA task force set up to examine aspartame
and G.D.Searle, "we have uncovered serious deficiencies in Searles operations
and practices, which undermine the basis for reliance on Searle’s integrity in
conducting high quality animal research to accurately determine the toxic
potential of its products." The task force report concluded with the
recommendation that G.D. Searle should face a Grand Jury "to identify more
particularly the nature of the violations, and to identify all those
responsible." [2]
In 1976, an FDA "task force" brought into question all
of G.D. Searle’s aspartame testing procedures conducted between 1967 and 1975.
The final FDA report noted faulty and fraudulent product testing, knowingly
misrepresented product testing, knowlingly misrepresented findings, and
instances of irrelevant animal research. In other word, illegal criminal
activity. Understandably scared, Searle officials sought to suppress the FDA
findings and obstruct justice. They turned to Nixon and Ford administration
operative Donald Rumsfeld and elected him "chairman of the Searle organization."
In 1977, the Wall Street Journal detailed the fact that Rumsfeld made efforts to
"mend fences" by asking "what Searle could do" in the face of the changes. Also
in 1977, Dr. Adrian Gross, a pathologist working for the FDA, uncovered evidence
that G.D.Searle might have committed criminal fraud in withholding adverse data
on aspartame. [3]
The FDA requested that U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner be
hired to investigate Searle’s aspartame testing procedures in January 1977.
Samuel Skinner was the federal prosecutor responsible for convincing the Grand
Jury to investigate whether Searle willfully and criminally withheld data that
cast doubt on the safety of aspartame. In February 1977, Skinner met with Searle
attorneys at the Chicago law firm of Sidney & Austin. Suddenly, newly elected
President Carter announced that Skinner would not remain in office, and Skinner
thereafter announced that he would be hired by Sidney & Austin. Obviously,
Skinner then had to recuse himself from the Searle prosecution. The case was
taken over by U.S. Attorney William Conlon, who essentially sat on the case,
despite complaints from the Justice Department, which was urging that a grand
jury be convened to prosecute Searle Company for falsifying Nutra-Sweet test
data. Failing to preform his duty, Conlon also joined Searle’s law firm in
January 1979.
Skinner’s defection from the FDA might have been
prompted by the results of the review of the Searle studies. David Hattan,
deputy director of the FDA Division of Toxicological Review and Evaluation,
concedes that anyone reading the orginal FDA investigation reports is likely to
be "shocked" by what they reveal. He says that the ensuing review of the Searle
studies, in which he was involved from the time of his arrival in 1978, was one
of the most thorough in the agency’s history. It included an unprecedented
hearing before a public board of inquiry composed of experts from outside the
agency. Arthur Hayes, Jr., then Commissioner of the FDA appointed by Reagan,
agreed with Searle and the FDA’s Bureau of Foods (now the Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition) that "an appropriate analysis of the data showed no
significant increases in tumor incidence in rats exposed to aspartame or DKP,
one of the breakdown products of aspartame. The board of inquiry rejected
concerns that aspartame’s components could cause neurological damage.[4]
In 1981, under pressure from the soft drink lobby, FDA
Commissioner Hayes approved the initial use of aspartane in dry foods and as a
tabletop sweetner, discounting public complaints as anecdotal and ignoring three
FDA scientists.[5] who voiced the fact that there were serious questions
concerning brain tumor tests after having done an in-house study. Hayes was
widely profiled as a man who believed that approval for new drugs and additives
was "too slow" because "the FDA demanded too much information." Hayes also
ignored the fact that the biased scientific studies paid for by Searle were
faulty.[6] After leaving the FDA, Hayes took the post of senior medical
consultant for the public relations firm retained by Searle..[7] A subsequent
inquiry "found no improprieity".
In July 1983 it was approved for use in soft drinks in
the United States, followed three months later by approval in Britain by the
Ministry of Agriculture. All this was done despite the fact that the Department
of Defense knew that aspartane was neurotoxic and harmful to human health. These
facts were deliberately suppressed by the government. It is also interesting
that in 1981 FDA scientist Dr. Robert Condon, in an internal government
document, said "I do not concur that aspartame has been shown to be safe with
respect to the induction of brain tumors." All safety was thrown aside because
of pressure from Searle. Considering the connections the drug companies have to
the medical and intelligence community, it would not be surprising that there
were other factors involved in the pressure to adopt aspartame into the diet of
the population.
In 1984, the Arizona Department of Health began testing
soft drinks to ascertain the level of toxic deterioration by-products in soft
drinks. It was determined that soft drinks stored in elevated temperatures
promoted more rapid deterioration of aspartame into poisonous methyl alcohol
(methanol). The FDA decided to ignore these results. Public complaints about the
effects of aspartame began to come in. People complained of headaches,
dizziness, vomiting, nausea, blurred vision, seizures, convulsions and a host of
other reactions to aspartame.
Also in 1984, the Centers for Disease Control made the
fraudulent announcement that "no serious, widespread" side effects of aspartame
had been found. It was an outright lie, and this announcement was quickly
followed by another from PepsiCo that it was dropping saccharin and adopting
aspartame as the sweetener it all its diet drinks. Others followed suit, despite
the January 1984 broadcast on CBS Nightly News where the chief scientist for the
FDA task force investigating Searle publicly stated that Searle company
officials made "deliberate decisions" to cloak aspartame’s toxic effects.
When a human consumes "Nutra-Sweet", it breaks down
above 85° not only into its constituent amino acids, but into methanol, which
further breaks down into formaldehyde, which is carcinogenic[8] and very toxic,
as well as formic acid and a brain tumor agent called diketopiperazine (DKP). In
a meek attempt to ward off further public inquiry, the FDA in 1984 announced
that "no evidence has been found to establish that aspartame’s methanol
by-product reaches toxic levels". This was a direct lie, since Medical World
News reported in 1978, six years earlier, than the methanol content of aspartame
is 1,000 times greater than most foods under FDA control. Furthermore, the
methanol in aspartame is "free methanol", which is never found in nature.
Methanol in nature is always accompanied by ethanol and other compounds which
mitigate the methanol when introduced into the body.
In 1985, Searle Company was bought by Monsanto, the
maker of other insidious substances that manage to find their way into human
food, including Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH). Senator Metzenbaum, commenting on
the FDA relative to the aspartame issue in 1985 said, "the FDA is content to
have Searle conduct all safety tests on aspartame. That’s absurd."
Supreme Court Collusion in Aspartame Coverup Clarence
Thomas Former Monsanto Lawyer
In 1986, the Washington Post reported that the Supreme
Court refused to consider arguments that the FDA had not followed proper
procedures in approving aspartame, despite arguments that the product "may cause
brain damage." (Supreme Court obstructing Justice). Since Clinton-appointed
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a former attorney for Monsanto.[9] ,it
is unlikely that hundreds of millions of people will find redress. There are
also indications of ties between Monsanto and elements in the CIA.
University of Illinois Fraudulent Study on Aspartame
In August of 1987, the University of Illinois, a
recipient of funding from Monsanto, issued a study "exonerating aspartame of
causing seizures in laboratory animals." The fact that they were paid by
Monsanto automatically invalidates the results. U.S. Senate hearings in 1987
showed that G.D.Searle used "psychological strategy" to get regulators at the
FDA "into a yes-saying habit" to "bring them into a subconscious spirit of
participation." .[10] More than half of 69 medical researchers polled by the FDA
in 1987 said they were concerned about aspartame’s safety.[11]
FDA Ignores Complaints of Neurological Symptoms
In 1989, the FDA received over 4,000 complaints from
people who described adverse reactions. Because the FDA conveniently lists
aspartane as a "food additive", it removes the legal requirement for adverse
effect reporting to any Federal agency and the necessity for safety monitoring
processes. Research also indicates that aspartame, when combined with glutamine
products (such as MSG, widely used in foods) increase the likelihood of brain
damage occurring in children.[12]
Aspartame Affecting Airline Pilots
Some of the more interesting developments in 1989
surfaced in the Palm Beach Post on October 14th, where an article by Dr. H.J.
Robert described several recent aircraft accidents involving confusion and
aberrant pilot behavior caused by ingestion of products containing
aspartame.[13] Soft drink makers were notified of this problem in 1991. It is
interesting to note that after Samuel Skinner left Sidney & Austin, Searle’s law
firm, he was appointed Secretary of Transportation. Hence, he was in charge of
the FAA, just in time to head off complaints from pilots affected by aspartame.
His wife was employed by Sidney & Austin. Later as George Bush’s Chief of Staff
in 1991, during the Gulf War, he was in a position to head off all inquiries
relative to asparatame, no matter where they were directed - to the FDA, FAA or
Department of Defense. This constitutes criminal negligence and racketeering.
George Bush, of course, was an ex-director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
British News: "Nutrasweet Tests Faked"
On July 20, 1990, an article in the national British
newspaper The Guardian, entitled "NutraSweet test results ‘faked’", revealed
that the British government had finally been persuaded to review the safety of
aspartame after "receiving a dossier of evidence highlighting its potential
dangers." According to The Guardian, the dossier alleged that laboratory tests
were falsified, tumors were removed from laboratory animals and animals were
‘restored to life’ in laboratory records.[14] The dossier against NutraSweet was
compiled by Erik Millstone, a lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit at
Sussex University and author of two books on food additives. It was based on
thousands of pages of evidence, much of which was obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act. The COT, Committee on Toxicity, was at the time looking into
consumption of artificial sweeteners and did not possess the key documents
covering alleged mishandling of the safety tests which Millstone was asked to
provide.
The British Ministry of Agriculture and Department of
Health have never revealed the evidence upon which approval was given in England
for the distribution of aspartame, maintaining that "these are matters of
commercial confidence." The British government does not testing of its own but
relies on safety tests provided by the manufacturer, which of course constitutes
a conflict of interest. The 1990 article quoted the British Department of Health
as saying "NutraSweet is not a health hazard on the available evidence, but
people do suffer ‘ideosyncratic reactions’ to food additives." Interestingly, it
was pointed out that three out of 14 members of the Committee on Toxicity have
direct or indirect links with the artificial sweetener industry, according to
David Clark, the Labour Party Agriculture spokeman, who requested a
Parliamentary Answer to address questions of conflict of interest. Aspartame is
also sold in England under the product name "Canderel." In 1990, the market for
asparatame in England was estimated at £800 million.
Aspartame
Dosing of the Military in the Gulf War
During the 1991 Gulf War, all military personnel were
provided free supplies of aspartame-laced soft drinks together with experimental
vaccines, nerve gas antidotes and personal insecticides. They were also treated
to direct biochemical warfare compounds. The result is Gulf War Syndrome, which
is communicable and deadly, and 50,000 military personnel and their dependents
are wasting away before our eyes. Criminal negligence? Of course. Criminal
conspiracy? Yes. Genocide? Probably - we’re waiting to see.
Aspartame Alters Brain Chemicals That Affect Behavior
Independent tests on animals have shown that aspartame
alters brain chemicals that also affect behavior. The chemical nature of
aspartame was also shown to defeat its own alleged "purpose" as a "diet aid",
since high doses instill a craving for calorie-laden carbohydrates. Then, the
aspartame-carbohydrate combination further increases the effect of aspartame on
the brain.[15]
Fraudulent Claims of Aspartame as a "Diet Aid"
Interestingly, even the American Cancer Society
confirmed that users of artificial sweeteners gained more weight than those who
didn’t use the products, further undermining the supposed "purpose" for the
existence of aspartame in the food.[16] Haven’t we heard this kind of criminal
fraud before?
The major selling point of aspartame is as a diet aid,
and it has been demonstrated that the use of this product actually causes people
to consume more food. Normally, when a significant quantity of carbohydrate are
comsumed, serotonin levels rise in the brain. This is manifested as a relaxed
feeling after a meal. When aspartame is ingested with carbohydrates, such as
having a sandwich with a diet drink, aspartame causes the brain to cease
production of serotonin, meaning that the feeling of having had enough never
materializes. You then eat more foods, many containing aspartame, and the cycle
continues. Monsanto’s profit from its NutraSweet Division was $993 million in
1990.
Governments Continue Suppression and Coverup on
Aspartame
In 1991, the National Institutes of Health.[17] listed
167 symptoms and reasons to avoid the use of aspartame , but today it is a
multi-million dollar business that contributes to the degeneration of the human
population, as well as the deliberate suppression of overall intelligence,
short-term memory[18] and the added contribution as a carcinogenic environmental
co-factor. The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control continue to receive a
stream of complaints from the population about aspartane. It is the only
chemical warfare weapon available in mass quantities (should keep the cone-heads
happy) on the grocery shelf and promoted in the media. It has also been
indicated that women with an intolerance for phenylalinine, one of the compoents
of aspartame, may give birth to infants with as much as a 15% drop in
intelligence level if they habitually consume products containing this dangerous
substance.[19]
FAA Collusion in Suppression of Facts on Aspartame
The March 1995 issue of The Pacific Flyer published a
pro-aspartame article in which it stated, "the Federal Aviation Administration
conducted its own cognitive research and, according to experts, found no
contraindications that would prevent pilots, or anyone, from ingesting
aspartame." This flies in the face of consistent reports from pilots who
maintain they have suffered severe and dangerous repercussions in the air after
drinking soft drinks containing aspartame. Virtually every time, symptoms
disappeared when aspartame-laced drinks were discontinued.[20] Over 600 pilots
have reported this problem.
FDA "Findings" on Aspartame Remain Based on Faked Tests
So, the faked Searle tests remain. The FDA bases its
findings on the faked Searle tests, and the Journal of the American Medical
Association, examining the FDA findings, based on the faked Searle tests,
announced "the consumption of aspartame poses no health risk for most people."
Searle officials argue that the use of aspartame as an artificial sweetener "has
been officially approved not only by the FDA, but by foreign regulatory agencies
and the World Health Organization" - based on Searle-sponsored aspartame
research, not independently conducted tests.
Symptoms of Aspartame Intoxication: Minimal to Severe
The symptoms of aspartame intoxication include severe
headaches, nausea, vertigo, insomina, loss of control of limbs, blurred vision,
blindness, memory loss, slurred speech, mild to severe depression often reaching
suicidal levels, hyperactivity, gastrointestinal disorders, seizures, skin
lesions, rashes, anxiety attacks, muscle and joint pain, numbness, mood changes,
loss of energy, menstrual cramps out of cycle, hearing loss or ringing in the
ears, loss or change of taste, and symptoms similar to those in a heart attack.
In addition, aspartic acid chelates (combines) with chromium - which is a
necessary element for proper operation of the thyroid gland. People who consume
large quantities of aspartame may end up with a false diagnosis of Graves
disease and suffer allopathic irradiation of their thyroid gland for no reason.
Complaints about aspartame represent 80-85% of all food complaints registered
with the FDA. More than 6,000 complaints have been made concerning the effects
of aspartame. Thirty independent doctors and scientists have conducted research
on the adverse effects of aspartame or have compiled supporting data against its
use.The use of NutraSweet® or Equal® should be seriously curtailed or stopped.
Aspartame Use Part of Planetary Biomedical Genocide
The fact that tons of aspartame is pumped into the world
population each year, knowingly and deliberately, especially with the historical
and documented record of fraud and misrepresentation, constitutes a conspiracy
of the highest order, as well as criminal negligence. The rewards of continued
use are increased profits for the medical and pharmaceutical industries and
chemical companies who produce aspartame and treat people suffering from the
effect of it. Aspartame is the only biochemical warfare product on grocery
shelves. And, the band plays on .... |
