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This explains how they got away with it, and continue to get away with it.
In 2001, Internist H.J. Roberts, M.D. published the 1000 page medical text on the global plague "Aspartame Disease" An Ignored Epidemic", www.amazon.com
It shows the public became the guinea pigs and lab rats leaving death and destruction in its path. Dr. Russell Blaylock published "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills". www.RussellBlaylockMD.com
So here, tucked in a file folder, is the statement of Jerome Bressler himself, dated March 21, 2009. From beyond the grave is his story of aspartame:
Betty Martini, D.Hum. Founder
Duluth, Georgia
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Dear Dr. Martini,My name is Jerome Bressler and I was Chief Compliance Officer with the Food and Drug Administration. My 42 year career included investigating the synthetic chemical sweetener aspartame, sold as NutraSweet and Equal and under other names, Aspartame is not a food, but simply a manufactured chemical, originally made by the G. D. Searle Co.
FDA regulations require producers to perform laboratory tests then submit accurate reports of such before the product ca be approved. We relied on the integrity of producers both for the research and a full disclosure report. There were problems with Searle's studies and it became apparent that a comprehensive examination was in order. This produced the Bressler Report which in detail it faults Searle's submission, concluding that aspartame is wholly unsafe for human consumption. We found that Searle's procedures were careless, incompetent and deceitful, and serious adverse data showing the chemical toxicity had not been reported.
The worst 20% of the Bressler Report was never released. When it was typed for publication, my cover letter was deleted as well as the damning evidence of two mouse studies. Nevertheless, January 1977 FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill wrote a 33 page letter to Sam Skinner of the Justice Department requesting a grand jury investigation of Searle for:
"Apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 21 USC 331 (e), and the False Reports to the Government Act, 18 U.S.C. 1001, for "their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act 21 U.S.C. 355 (i) and making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of aspartame." FDA called special attention to studies investigating the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters."
Prosecutor Sam Skinner switched sides and hired on with Searle's defense lawyers. The case fell to another attorney to prosecute, but he also joined the defense team. The statute of limitations expired and Searle got away free. We never had our day in court. Nevertheless, FDA held fast to keep aspartame off the market and on 9/8/80 revoked the petition for approval.
By then, Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle. He had supported Ronald Reagan for President, so on the day after his inauguration, a new FDA Commissioner was appointed, who overruled the FDA's Board of Inquiry which had revoked the petition for aspartame approval. Subsequently there were three congressional hearings which included the testimony of FDA toxicologist, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett and FDA scientist Dr. Adrian Gross. Dr. Gross testified that aspartame causes brain cancer. Dr. Verrett stated that aspartame was never proven safe.
Now this stuff is on the market through political muscle, no other way. I foresaw the devastations that were to come. It's a chemical killer. Politics rather than science let it become the most controversial additive in history. In 1995 FDA published a list of 92 aspartame symptoms, including seizures, blindness and death from over ten thousand volunteered complaints.
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