Text of Aspartame Recall Petition
ATTENTION: ASSIGNMENT EDITORS AND PRODUCERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Betty Martini
MISSION POSSIBLE
770 242-2599
IS THIS WHY FDA COMMISSIONER DAVID KESSLER QUIT?
NUTRASWEET RECALL DEMAND!
Two weeks before Kessler resigned Dr. Robert Moser, NutraSweet spokesman,
declared no scientific evidence was ever found to implicate aspartame as
the cause of seizures. An Atlanta activist group, Mission Possible,
announced Tuesday FDA had conclusive evidence all along, but chose to
ignore it, and Kessler approved NutraSweet as a general sweetener for
all foods in June. But now it appears that the S.S. NutraSweet has hit the
iceberg and Monsanto's First Mate David Kessler has just jumped overboard.
FDA designated 15 of the studies upon which NutraSweet approval was granted
as "Pivotal Studies". One study proved Dr. Moser wrong.
"A 52 WEEK ORAL TOXICITY INFANT MONKEY STUDY"
(SC-18862)
Seven monkeys were divided into 3 dosage groups.
"52 Weeks" was actually 204 to 364 days.
Data was "lost" on the monkey which died
One monkey, P53, had "congenital physical deficiencies"
resulting in "poor growth due to inappetance."
Data on this one was also "lost".
"limitations in adequately skilled laboratory personnel
contributed to our decision to eliminate the requirement
of a control group in this study." says the report.
What happened to the little monkeys?
"All animals in the medium and high dosage groups exhibited
seizure activity. The seizures were of the grand mal type.
One monkey, M38, died after 300 days. The cause of death
was not determined."
The report continues: "Following the termination of treatment, medium and
high dose monkeys were kept under observation for three months on powdered
Similac. No further convulsions were detected." The study makes this
conclusion: "The convulsions in the monkeys are correlated with and can
be attributed to high serum phenylalanine levels." This Pivotal Study
proved aspartame triggers gran mal seizures in monkeys. The seizures
stopped when aspartame was discontinued. They took the "No-Aspartame
Test and got well. Medical testing on monkeys, labratories and studies all
cost money... even if the reports are doctored (pun intended) so the human
race is now unwittingly paying for follow-on tests, and the grevious results
of this aspatame poisoning.
The late Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA Toxicologist, summed up separate test,
on rats, and listed 14 blunders, including:
Unreported tumors. Incomplete examinations.
Missing batch records. Hiding deaths.
Destroying rats before they could be completely analyzed.
Mixing foods so rats could avoid the aspartame.
Resurrecting dead rats on paper.
Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, FDA toxicologist testified in 1987 in U.S. Senate
hearing that the tests were a disaster, should have been thrown out; and
data in the study was worthless. She said: "(aspartame) was too unstable
to be used in hot preparations, hot liquids and also diet drinks."
The soft drink companies knew in advance aspartame degrades into toxic
components, and protested to Congress in l983. Five pages of their
objections were printed in the Senate Congressional Record on May 7, 1985:
"OBJECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL SOFT DRINK ASSOCIATION TO A FINAL RULE
PERMITTING THE USE OF ASPARTAME IN CARBONATED BEVERAGES"
"Objection One: Searle has not demonstrated that aspartame and its
degradation products are safe for use in soft drinks
... Aspartame is inherently, markedly and uniquely unstable"
However, the greatest evidence is in the bodies of thousands of aspartame
victims, well known to the FDA. In l995 FDA listed 10,000 complaints with
92 symptoms including seizures, blindness and death. 75% of all
complaints to the agency on additives are on aspartame. This report is
available only through Freedom of Information as FDA conceals
anti-aspartame data.
FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes, Jr. who approved NutraSweet, overruled the
Public Board of Inquiry established to investigate the safety of the
product. Hayes later resigned to work for NutraSweet's (Searle) public
relations firm while he was under investigation for accepting gratuities.
The fraudulent tests that ended up approving NutraSweet were so corrupt
that Federal prosecution was initiated against Searle. But the government
prosecutors switched sides to hire on with the defense attorneys and the
case died when the statute of limitations expired. NutraSweet (Searle)
was bought by Monsanto in l985.
The foregoing depressing events are but the scum on top of the cesspool of
scandal surrounding aspartame, a recognized neurotoxin that now finds a
place on every restaurant table and in millions of homes worldwide. It
must end. We must proclaim it from the housetops, one to another until
the bell of freedom from the scourge of aspartame rings clear in all
lands.
We, citizens of the world, to defend the lives and health of all mankind,
hereby demand that ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) be
immediately and forever banned. It is a chemical poison. It causes
seizures, depression, brain damage, , memory loss, headaches, blindness,
tumors, birth defects, infertility and abortions, is escalating Alzheimers
and causes DEATH! Murder by chemistry must fall!
A partial list of doctors and organizations supporting the recall of
aspartame (NutraSweet) follows:
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