Food Standards in New Zealand in 2007 admitted they never did studies on aspartame and relied on FDA. In England a business proposition was used to approve it. Parliament had a blowout and the story was published in the Guardian.No studies were done in the UK. By now 100 nations have rubberstamped G. D. Searle' fraudulent and corrupt data with FDA's blessing so Don Rumsfeld's aspartame disease has become a plague upon all mankind. .
they were over-ruled by the FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes. It was a unilateral decision, a political decision and not one based on medical and scientific data.
Our lives and health are sacrificed to an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, genetically engineered, carcinogenic drug that damages the mitochondria and even interacts with drugs and vaccines. It is used in the US by half of the population, creating an incredible epidemic of diseases described in Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D. and Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D, for starters.
Dr. Roberts is a diabetic specialist and says aspartame can not only precipitate diabetes but also simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with insulin. So we have epidemics of diabetes, obesity, MS, lupus, autism, ALS and other horrors because of the malfeasance of Arthur Hull Hayes and the political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld. Lives have been destroyed across the planet while FDA continues to lie on its safety with full knowledge of toxicity.
Dr. Ken Stoller, pediatrician, who has the New Mexico Aspartame Detox Center also looked over the investigation of the concealed studies. He said, "These are scientifically offensive "studies . The manufacturer did everything it could to whitewash aspartame as was done in other studies investigated in the Bressler Report where it was found Searle excised brain tumors from rats, added them back to the study and resurrected them on paper when they died. Who persuaded FDA to delete Dr. Collins investigation of these teratology studies that should have been on public record? They even removed his name from the report. Aspartame is a teratogen, triggers birth defects and mental retardation, yet there is no warning to pregnant women. With the CDC now saying autism is 1% of the children and still a supposed "mystery allowing known neurotoxins into the food chain is insanity.
One thing about the aspartame industry they know how to use influence and power and money, and they know how to do flawed studies. Monsanto bought Searle in 1985 and later sold NutraSweet. Here's how they abused science: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/
The aspartame industry says 200 studies proved aspartame safety. These objectionable, inferior and worthless studies prove nothing but fraud and cover-up, and the FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett said they were built on a foundation of sand. Dr. Verrett testified to the U.S. Senate in 1987 and stated that flawed tests conducted by Searle used as the basis of FDA approval were a disaster and should have been thrown out. She said she believed the studies left many unanswered questions about possible birth defects and the safety of aspartame.
FDA also knew aspartame caused cancer. An adenocarcinoma found in 1972 animal study, pp 6, 67, 70 of Bressler Report. FDA toxicologist and scientist, Dr. Adrian Gross, admitted to the Senate, aspartame caused cancer on 8/1/85 and said:
In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act? He was talking about brain cancer.
The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross asked, Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an allowable daily intake or safe level of it? Is that position in effect not equivalent to setting a tolerance for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public? So here is the admission by FDA's own toxicologist that aspartame is on the market because FDA violated the law.
In 2005 and 2007 the impeccable Ramazzini Studies in Italy peer reviewed by 7 world experts proved aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen. No surprise to the FDA since they knew about the cancer all along. As usual they just lied and denied it when the Ramazzini Studies were published. The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic has 1000 pages of why aspartame should not have been approved from adulteration and seizures to birth defects, neurodegenerative diseases, drug interaction and psychiatric disease.
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