By
Theodora Filis
NutraSweet (NutraSweet!?!) Relaunches as Natural, Stevia-Based Platform. Once considered a market leader for artificial sugar alternatives – before shutting its doors in 2014 – a new partner is returning sweetener brand NutraSweet to the market. But this time it’s going au naturel - 4/2023
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In 1985
Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the
patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto
knew of aspartame's past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry,
comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it"might induce brain tumors."
The FDA
banned aspartame based on the findings, only to have Donald Rumsfeld
(13th Secretary of Defense from 1975-1977) the Chairman of G.D.
Searle (1976) vow to "call in his markers," to get it
approved.
On
January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle
re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food
sweetener, and Reagan's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr.,
appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of
inquiry's decision.
One
common complaint of persons suffering from the effect of aspartame is
memory loss.
It soon
became clear that the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision,
but Hull then installed a sixth member on the commission, and the
vote became deadlocked. He then personally broke the tie in
aspartame's favor. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of
impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College,
and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public
relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle.
Aspartame
is the technical name for the brand names NutraSweet, Equal,
Spoonful, and Equal-Measure, made up of three chemicals: aspartic
acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.
Aspartame
accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food
additives including seizures and death. Just like fluoridated water,
aspartame is literally a poison and is present in almost all our
processed foods.
The
deadly artificial sweetener NutraSweet is produced by feeding fossil
fuel oil to ecoli that are genetically modified to defecate aspartame
as feces.
According
to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of
aspartame, chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by
ingesting aspartame: Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy,
chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s,
mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and
diabetes.
A Poisoned World
The risk
to infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and persons with
certain chronic health problems from excitotoxins are great.
Ninety-two
other dangerous side effects come from a commonly used artificial
sweetener with a very sordid history of poor research, cover-ups and
the usual 'money means more than people' mentality by US
manufacturers.
That
still hasn’t stopped this toxic poison from being allowed to invade
the thousands of different foods and beverages we buy and eat and
serve our families every day.
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