>From bettym19@mindspring.comThu Dec 14 17:06:00 1995 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:46:00 -0500 From: Betty Martini Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience Subject: ASPARTAME TESTING - MALICE IN BLUNDERLAND ABBOTT & COSTELLO PLAY MALICE IN BLUNDERLAND Hitler was right, tell a monstrous lie often enough and it becomes the truth. NutraSweet is called "The most thoroughly tested substance in history." Tested by comedians according to the late Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA Toxicologist in a letter to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum: "The views of the FDA's Center for Food Safety read like a script written for Abbott & Costello in the sense of their having perceptions inside-out and upside-down ... 329 fetuses were examined in 2 days by a single person (a clear impossibility). "We have uncovered serious deficiencies in Searle's operation and practices which undermined the basis for reliance on Searle's integrity ... Searle has not submitted all the facts or experiments to FDA, retaining unto itself the unpermitted option of filtering, interpreting and not submitting information ... an attitude of disregard for FDA's mission of protection of the public health ... conduct which compromises the scientific integrity of the studies." 14 test blunders are listed, including: Substitution of animals (hiding deaths) Using sick animals on drugs (unreported) Incomplete examination, unreported tumors Missing batch records Mixing food so rats in the test could avoid the product Destroying rats before they could be fully analyzed. The full frequency of brain tumors was not disclosed by Searle to the FDA. In l976 FDA Commissioner Dr. Alexander Schmidt publicly stated that FDA could not rely on Searle's studies. But the sloppy, incomplete, doctored and fradulent "tests," with a little help from some friends, put NutraSweet on the market for $2 Billion/year. Dr. Gross continued: "It seems bizarre that essentially the same set of studies could provide a foundation for a decision that ... demonstrated the safety of aspartame ... Although the General Accounting Office expresses the view that FDA followed its required process, I sharply disagree ... although FDA may have gone through the motions such a "process" or dance represented no more than a farce and a mockery." At the expense of our safety a system now exists where FDA works for industry, not the American People. In l981 NutraSweet was approved when Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, FDA head, overruled his own board of inquiry to do so. Then he went to work for Searle's public relations firm! Federal prosecutor Sam Skinner who was assigned to prosecute Searle for fraud quit the case to go to work for their lawyers. Later Monsanto bought Searle/NutraSweet and let slip the hounds of disease and devastation upon an innocent unwarned American population. Malice in Blunderland is no comedy. Betty Martini Operation Mission Possible P.S. In a memorandum from Herbert Helling titled CONFIDENTIAL TRADE SECRET INFORMATION, Food and Drug Sweetener Strategy, 12/28/70, said:.."we have no way of estimating maximum likely abuse and hence need to utilize data based on almost complete conversion to DKP. If we include this .. we stand a good chance of ending up with nothing.." They knew DKP (diketopiperazine), a brain tumor agent, is a breakdown product - they knew what would happen to the public, and concealed it! In a letter to me dated 9/17/95 from neurosurgeon, Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. (author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills - Health Press - 1 800-643-2665) he says: "The more we learn about these substances the more frightening the picture becomes. What really concerns me about aspartame is its association with brain tumors as well as pancreatic, uterine and ovarian tumors. Also the fact that so many develop an Alzheimer's - like syndrome with prolonged exposure." .. Dr. H. J. Roberts, world expert on aspartame, has written DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMERS DISEASE (1 800-814-9800). In it he tells how aspartame is escalating Alzheimers Disease, in his opinion. He says the two amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid, without the other amino acids in protein go past the blood brain barrier and deteriorate the neurons of the brain. Indeed, memory loss, is one of the prime symptoms of aspartame, although the FDA list 92 documented symptoms from coma to death! (August, 1995) A hospice nurse called me recently wandering why so many youngsters are being admitted with brain tumors. She also said 30 year old women are being admitted with Alzheimers! In a recent lecture on NutraSweet one physician in the audience said they are removing brain tumors madeup of aspartame! Be warned! Aspartame is poison! Betty Martini Mission Possible International 9270 State Bridge Road Suite 215 Duluth, Georgia 30097 Email: bettym19@mindspring.com