Thought neurology would like to read what NutraSweet calls tests in safety
on aspartame Especially, since the majority of all symptoms and diseases
triggered by NutraSweet are neurological - as it destroys the central
nervous system..
Regards,
Betty
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:23:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Betty Martini <betty at noel.pd.org>
Subject: Letter to NutraSweet, Mr. Nelson
Dear Mr. Nelson: Mr. R. B. Jones forwarded me your email to him. I'm
amused. Don't you realize yet that the propaganda of the NutraSweet Co.
has been exposed all over the world. You say I ignore the numerous
controlled, peer-reviewed and published scientific studies that have shown
safety. I would say this is a very misleading sentence. Let me put it to
you as expressed on 60 Minutes by Dr. Walton. "Only the studies funded by
the manufacturer (orig Searle)showed safety, yet out of 90 independent
studies on aspartame 83 of them showed problems."
According to a letter from the FDA to Barbara Mullarkey, all studies that
approved NutraSweet were funded by Searle.
Should we take any of these manufacturer funded studies seriously? On Dec
8, l975 stockholders filed a class action lawsuit alleging that G. D.
Searle had concealed information from the public regarding the nature and
quality of animal research at G.D. Searle in violation of the Securities
and Exchange Act (Farber l989).
A few conclusions of the FDA Task Force:
"At the heart of FDA's regulatory process is its ability to rely upon the
integrity of the basic safety data submitted by sponsors of regulated
products. Our investigation clearly demonstrates that, in the (case of
the ) G. D. Searle Co., we have no basis for such reliance now."
"We have noted that Searle has not submitted all the facts of experiments
to FDA, retaining unto itself the unpermitted option of filtering,
interpreting, and not submitting information which we would consider
material to the safety evaluation of the product...Finally, we hae found
instances of irrelevant or unproductive animal research where experiments
have been poorly conceived, carelessly executed or inaccurately analyzed
or reported."
A few of the relevant findings summarized from various documents
describing the FDA Task Force Report:
a. "Excising masses (tumors) from live animals, in some cases without
histologic examination of the masses, in others without reporting them to
the FDA." (US Senate 1976b, page 4) Searle's representatives, when caught
and questioned on these irregularities, stated that "these masses were in
the head and neck areas and prevented the animals from feeding."
"Failure to report to the FDA all internal tumors present in the
experimental rats, e.g., polyps in the uterus, ovary neoplasm's as well as
other lesions." US Senate 1987, page 437).
b. G. D. Searle "stored animal tissues in formaldehyde for so long that
they deteriorated." (Gordon l987)
c. "Instead of performing autopsies on rhesus monkeys that suffered
seizures after being fed aspartame, the company had financed a new monkey
seizure study with a different methodology that showed no problems."
(Gordon l987)
d. "Reporting animals as unavailable for necropsy when, in fact, records
indicate that the animals were available but SEarle choose not to purchase
them." (US Senate 1976b, page 5)
e. Animals which had died were sometimes recorded as being alive and vice
versa. "These include approximately 20 instances of animals reported as
dead and then reported as having vital signs normal again at subsequent
observation periods." (Congressional Record l985b, page S10836)
(Really, Mr. Nelson, do you really think the public is going to take
seriously studies where rats were resurrected on paper. Try that
trick on some of the people who died from NutraSweet like Joyce Wilson,
Patricia Craine and William Randolph, etc., etc. For shame!)
f. "Selecting statistical procedures which used a total number of animals
as the denominator when only a portion of the animals were examined, thus
reducing the significance of adverse effects." (US Senate l976b, page 4)
j. "In each study investigated, poor practices, inaccuracies, and
discrepancies were noted in the antemortem phases which could compromise
the study." (Congressional Record l985b, page S10836)
k. "Presenting information to FDA in a manner likely to obscure problems,
such as editing the report of a consulting pathologist... Reporting one
pathology report while failing to submit, or make reference to another
usually more adverse pathology report on the same slide." (US Senate
l976b, page 4-5)
FDA Toxicologist and Task Force member, Dr. Adrian Gross as quoted in the
Congressional Record (l985b, page S10826):
"They (G. D. Searle) lied and they didn't submit hte real nature of their
observations because had they done that it is more than likely that a
great number of these studies would have been rejected simply for adquacy.
What SEarle did, they took great pains to camouflage these shortcomings of
the study. As I say filter and just present to the FDA what they wished
the FDA to know and they did other terrible things for instance, animals
would develop tumors while they were under study. Well they would remove
these tumors from the animals."
FDA Lead Investigator and Task Force Team Leader, Phillip Brodsky
described the l975 FDA Task Force members as some of the most experienced
drug investigators. He went on to state that he had never seen anything
as bad as G. D. Searle's studies (Graves l984).
The FDA Commissioner at the time, Alexander Schmidt stated (Graves l984):
"(Searle's studies were) incredibly sloppy science. What we discovered
was reprehensible."
Dr. Marvin Legator, professor and director of environmental toxicology at
the University of Texas and the pioneer of mutagenicity testing at the FDA
from l962 to l972 was asked by Common Cause Magazine to review the FDA
investigation results of G. D. SEarle's tests (Graves l984):
"(All tests were) scientifically irresponsible and disgraceful. I'm
just shocked that that kind of sloppy work would even be sent to FDA,
and that the FDA administrators accepted it. There is no reason why
these tests couldn't have been carried out correctly. Its not that
we are talking about some great scientific break through in
methodology."
Shall I go on about these studies that showed the safety of aspartame, Mr.
Nelson? Shall we discuss that U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner was even asked to
indict Searle for fraud but instead switched sides and went to work for
the manufacturer's law firm defending the case????
You tell Mr. Jones: "let me reassure you that more than 200 scientific
studies have established the safety of aspartame."
In testimony before the U.S. Senate, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, senior
scientist on the FDA review team explained these studies were built on a
foundation of sand, were worthless and should be thrown out. And you dare
to try and make the world believe these studies established safety.
I love this sentence: "FDA's approval has been supported by the American
Medical Association and many other regulatory agencies around the world."
My, my, Mr. Nelson, you forgot to mention the Board of Inquiry of the FDA
said not to approve NutraSweet, and the only reason it was approved is
that Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes OVERRULED THE BOARD OF INQUIRY, as FDA
Commissioner and then went to work for the manufacturer's PR firm! I
remind you of 60 Minutes mention of the REVOLVING DOOR! And do tell the
public how many millions the NutraSweet Company (Monsanto) have given to
the AMA!!!
And this discussion of "counter-placebo effect" because people get well
when they get off NutraSweet. In other words, get off poison, get well
and your brain did it. A burglar could think of a better alibi!!!!!
Below is another recent result of the "take the 60 day no aspartame test".
Would you believe, another "counter-placebo effect"??? Let's see now she
says on abstaining from NutraSweet she has "no more migraine headaches, no
leg cramps, joint pain at least 95% gone, skin lesions going way, and she
lost 6 1/2 lbs without changing eating habits." Isn't it interesting that
no one gets their symptoms back again unless they accidently get more
NutraSweet. And they just keep flooding in.
Counter-placebo effect, indeed. A brochure on NutraSweet was put out over
a year ago in this city warning people of the dangers. It was given out
free by the thousands and the thousands. The owner called and said: "You
won't believe what is happening?!" I already knew before she told me,
people were getting off aspartame and waking up well, big time. Those who
were losing their vision could see again, those suffering with the
horrible joint pain that aspartame causes found their pain was gone, those
who could not walk, now could, and on and on. Why Mr. Nelson, you just
couldn't count the "counter-placebo effects" there were so many.
And you talk about because the people get on anti-oxidants, etc. When
they realize their medical problems have disappeared they want to detoxify
and try and get rid of some of the built up formaldehyde and other toxic
breakdown products.
What you call anecdotal used to be considered clinical observation.
Aspartame is a neurotoxin, and you know it. No amount of propaganda will
change that, and if this note wasn't already too long, I'd go into some of
the other horrors. There are so many problems triggered by aspartame it
would take a volume of books to discuss them all. Maybe thats why the FDA
listed "92" documented symptoms on aspartame from coma and blindness to
four different types of seizures and death!
Betty Martini
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To get more information on aspartame, email betty at pd.org as follows:
Subject: sendme help
The subject line must be typed exactly like the above line.
Betty Martini 1. Take the 60-day No-Aspartame test
Mission Possible and send us your case history.
5950-H State Bridge Rd 2. Tell your doctor and your friends.
Suite 215 3. Return Aspar-Poisoned foods to the store.
Duluth GA 30155 USA (Nutrasweet(tm), Equal(tm), Spoonful(tm), etc)
Visit http://www.dorway.com with links to more than 25 other Web Sites
We are dedicated to the proposition that we will not be satisfied until death
and disability are no longer considered an acceptable cost of business.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997
To: betty at pd.org
Subject: Update from Becky
Dear Betty,
You requested that I give you an update after 60 days without Aspartame. I
have made some progress. I have no more migraine headaches, no leg cramps,
the joint pain is at least 95% gone, the skin lesions are going away, and I
have lost 6 1/2 pounds without changing my eating habits any more. Something
else has happened that I can't explain. For years I have not been able to
drink tea because it hurt my lower back (which I thought was my kidneys).
When I bought the cali tea for detoxification, I didn't think about that not
bothering me. After I had been drinking it for at least 2 weeks, it occurred
to me that I wasn't having any pain from drinking tea. Could it be because
I'm not consuming aspartame anymore? Anyway, I've been drinking tea now at
fast food places instead of diet coke and getting by with it. I could not
even sneak in one glass of it before without it causing me pain right away.
I have a long way to go but I didn't get this way in two months and I won't
get rid of it in two months.
It took me 14 years to get this bad and I will keep trying. I have reached a
lot of people and hope they will listen. I want to get enough better that
when I tell someone about this, they will listen and take notice of my
getting better.
As of the first of April, we will be going to N. Ft. Myers to live for a
couple of months. You can continue to reach me through my daughter's
internet address I think you asked in one of your
letters if my daughter's name was Frosty...it's Jan. You have my permission
to use this information as you see fit. I would like to use the money that
it cost over the years for tests and medication for this cause like Dave
Reitz has, but my husband is retired and we're on a fixed income. I have a
real big family and a lot of friends and will do my best in spreading the
word and hope it doesn't fall on deaf ears.
If you have time, I'd LOVE to hear from you again.
A friend,
Becky
A Note from her daughter, Jan:
Betty, mom didn't mention these other improvements:
Her balance seems better at times.
Several have noticed that her handwriting is better - isn't as shaky.
Her last eye exam, only 1 of her eyes had changed. I don't know if it got
better or worse and she didn't ask. She did say that with her double vision
that she saw 2 distinct items where now the two overlap again.
We keep praying for a miracle. Have you ever heard of anyone slowly
regaining what they have lost through the use of aspartame? I want her to
get better so much but am also thankful for her not to keep getting worse
(which she was before she got off of aspartame). I hope you have time to
send a small word of encouragement. She needs it. Thanks for all you've
done and continue to do spreading the word.
Jan.
