Aspartame

adayinthelife · October 11, 2006

Studies have been carried out which confirmed just how dangerous this poison can be.

http://www.dldewey.com/columns/asparstu.htm

Searle's Own Negative Study

The following study listed below is a study conducted by Searle, the inventor, patent holder at the time this study was done in 1972 in conjuction with researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center.

In this study (7) infant monkeys were fed doses of Aspartame over a 52 week period. One monkey died, while (5) had grand mal seizures during the study. Even though this study is leaning toward the safety of Aspartame since it was funded by Searle, they failed to explain these findings in the report.

http://www.wnho.net/new_aspartame_studies.htm

Then just last year two more studies found equally alarming results from the studies of this poison, which is now in nearly 10,000 products on the market.

It would take a real sicko to unleash this on an unsuspecting population...

What is the official respone to all this evidence?

Well just a few months ago they tried to reassure the public that aspartame is safe, without actually providing any evidence.

Food safety authority says aspartame not linked to cancer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,17....html?gusrc=rss

It was an unusual opening gambit for the director of the European food safety authority, but Dr Herman Koéter wanted to tackle the persistent controversy that has swirled around the artificial sweetener aspartame head on.

His expert scientists were gathered at a press conference in Rome ten days ago to give their latest opinion on whether the sweetener causes cancer. Aspartame is eaten every day by millions of people around the world in over 6,000 well-known brands of food, drink and medicine. Any review of its safety has enormous political and economic implications.

The latest episode in the drama began a few months ago when Italy's independent Ramazzini Foundation published a new and exceptionally large study, which said that aspartame caused several types of cancer in rats at doses very close to the current acceptable daily intake for humans.

MEPs complained last month that the scientist who chairs the advisory panel, Dr Susan Barlow, works for the International Life Sciences Institute, a body funded by sweetener manufacturers and major aspartame users such as Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé, and Monsanto. The European commission was also told by MEPs of other "conflicts of interest". One scientist involved in the review had declared a research grant from Ajinomoto, the leading Japanese manufacturer of aspartame, they said. Other panel members listed links with food processors such as Nestlé in their declarations of interest.

They then laughingly tried to claim...

Its members had no direct or indirect interest in the particular issue of aspartame. Dr Barlow's work for industry had been generic and had not related to sweeteners. The research grant from Ajinomoto related to a student project on flavourings, not sweeteners.

The Ramazzini Foundation however is refusing to close the book on aspartame. Its director, Dr Morando Soffritti, told journalists at the Rome conference that it stands by its research finding that aspartame causes cancer. Roger Williams, the British Liberal Democrat MP who used a speech in the House of Commons last December to highlight the controversial history of aspartame's approval, has just announced that he will continue his campaign to have the sweetener banned.

We now find out who got this poison approved...

In his earlier parliamentary speech he said the licensing of aspartame put "regulators and politicians to shame", with the likes of Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary and a former head of the Searle, the pharmaceutical company that discovered aspartame, " calling in his markers" to get it approved. Mr Williams has now accused EFSA's criticisms of the study of being "unfounded and contradictory".

As the conference wound up, we asked the EFSA head if he himself ate aspartame. "Yes, I would. In chocolate, I would." Did that mean he does eat aspartame? "I don't drink aspartame in soft drinks, but that's because I don't like the taste."

Yeah right...

What's wrong with sugar anyway?

charlie clown · October 12, 2006

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