In article <4822c237.5117058@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, A Texan From
Connecticut wrote:
>http://www.naturalnews.com/023175.html
>
>(NaturalNews) In December of 1965, while James Schlatter, a chemist
>for G.D. Searle & Company, was working on an anti-ulcer drug candidate
>he accidentally discovered aspartame. He was recrystallizing aspartame
>from ethanol when the mixture spilled onto the outside of the flask he
>was using. Some of the powder landed on his fingers. Schlatter
>discovered the sweet taste of aspartame when he absent-mindedly licked
>his finger later. He realized that the sweet taste must have been the
>aspartame.
>
>G.D. Searle approached Dr. Harry Waisman (Biochemist, Professor of
>Pediatrics, Director of the University of Wisconsin's Joseph P.
>Kennedy Jr. Memorial Laboratory of Mental Retardation Research, and a
>well-known expert in phenylalanine toxicity) in 1970 to research the
>effects of aspartame on primates. The study began on January 15, 1970
>and ended in late April, 1971. Dr. Waisman died unexpectedly in March,
>of 1971.
>
>In the study conducted by Dr. Waisman, seven infant monkeys were given
>aspartame with milk. One died after 300 days. Five others experienced
>grand mal seizures.
>
>These actual research results were not included in the initial
>application that G.D. Searle submitted to the FDA. G.D. Searle denied
>knowledge of or involvement with anything involving this research
>study. However, falsified results were submitted to the FDA bearing a
>Searle Pathology-Toxicology project number. Dr. Waisman and G.D.
>Searle both were responsible for the study design. Several false
>statements were made by G.D. Searle, including that the animals
>participating in the study were unavailable for autopsy after the
>termination of the study.
>
>Neuroscientist John W. Olney discovered that oral intake of glutamate,
>aspartame and cysteine (all excitotoxic amino acids) cause brain
>damage in mice. An internal G.D. Searle memorandum discussed the
>strategy for getting aspartame approved.
Glutamate is present to a very large extent in brewer's yeast -
supposedly good stuff. I guess glutamate can't be that toxic.
Aspartame is not an amino acid, but a combination.
- Don Klipstein (don@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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