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                                                       August 29, 1996
                                                       David Oliver Rietz
                                                       122 Foxborough Road
                                                       Goose Creek, SC 29445
                                                       US Navy (Retired)

Commissioner David Kessler
Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, Maryland 20857

Dear Dr. Kessler:

       The history of the FDA, Searle, Monsanto, NutraSweet Corporation,
and many others concerning the product aspartame should become two
significant college courses.

        The first course should be entitled "Fraud 101" and be dedicated
to all those companies who successfully doctored official tests, reports,
and other required OFFICIAL documentation in their successful well-
monied campaign to bring aspartame (A.K.A. "Equal" and
"NutraSweet") to market.

        The second course should be entitled "Greed 101", and be
dedicated to one-time FDA Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., appointed
in April of 1981, and all commissioners since including yourself, many
members of congress, and every government agency that has had anything
o do with keeping this toxic poison classified as something other that what it
truly is: a toxic drug unfit for human consumption!

    In addition, you, sir, deserve special recognition.  Aspartame breaks
down into very nasty components above 86 degrees Fahrenheit.  Yet on the
27 June, 1996, without public fanfare you gave blanket approval that permits
this poison to be used in any and all products including heated foodstuffs.
 
 Enclosure (1) of this letter is my method of "discovery", that took
 fifteen years to acquire, no thanks to twenty-one learned doctors, the
 health system in general, and the U.S. Government, in particular!

 Enclosure (2) is my generalized case statement,  now a permanent fixture
on the Internet.  In the near future you will see this again, and many
more to come.

   The long-term deleterious effects of this treacherous neurotoxin that
you have allowed to remain classified as a non-drug, making all concerned
obscenely wealthy, constitutes an epidemic that will soon make you and
your kind notorious.

                                                     Most sincerely,

                                                      David Rietz

  (Please read the Epilogue with this letter.)
         (Dec, 1998, no answer to date!)

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