Here are a couple of locations that will better provide links to the documentation you're asking for. The second hotlink is more of a general summary.
http://www.dorway.com/symptoms.html http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html#symptoms Funny how Donald Rumsfeld's fingerprint is found throughout the entire political history of aspartame's federal "approval." http://www.rinfret.com/dr.html > The Aspartame/NutraSweet Fiasco > by > James S. Turner > > Many health-conscious people believe that avoiding aspartame, found in >over 5000 products under brand names such as Equal and NutraSweet, can >improve > their quality of life. The history of this synthetic sweetener's approval > by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including a long record of > consumer complaints and the agency's demonstrated insensitivity to public > concern, suggests they're right. > > In October 1980 the Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) impaneled by the FDA to > evaluate aspartame safety found that the chemical caused an unacceptable > level of brain tumors in animal testing. Based on this fact, the PBOI >ruled that aspartame should not be added to the food supply. > > This ruling capped 15 years of regulatory ineptitude, chicanery and > deception by the FDA and the Searle drug company, aspartame's discoverer > and manufacturer (acquired by Monsanto in 1985), and kicked off another >two decades of maneuvering, manipulating and dissembling by FDA, Searle and > Monsanto. > > In 1965, a Searle scientist licked some of a new ulcer drug from his > fingers and discovered the sweet taste of aspartame. Eureka! Selling this > chemical as a food additive to hundreds of millions of healthy people >every day would mean many more dollars than limited sales to the much smaller >group of ulcer sufferers. > > Searle, a drug company with little experience in food regulation, began > studies to comply with the law -- but which failed to do so. Its early > tests of the substance showed it produced microscopic holes and tumors in > the brains of experimental mice, epileptic seizures in monkeys, and was > converted by animals into dangerous substances, including formaldehyde. > > In 1974, however, in spite of the information in its files, the FDA > approved aspartame as a dry-foods additive. But the agency also made >public for the first time the data supporting a food-additive decision. >This data > was subsequently reviewed by renowned brain researcher John Olney from > Washington University in St. Louis, and other scientists. > > Dr. Olney discovered two studies showing brain tumors in rats and > petitioned FDA for a public hearing. Consumer Action for Improved Foods >and Drugs (represented by the author of this piece) also petitioned for a > public hearing based on the approval process having been based on sloppy > science and the product's having reportedly caused epileptic seizures in > monkeys and possible eye damage. > > Dr. Olney had already shown that aspartic acid (one aspartame component) > caused microscopic holes in the brains of rats after each feeding. > Aspartame also includes phenylalinine, which causes PKU in a small number > of susceptible children, and methyl, or wood, alcohol which is neurotoxic > in large amounts. > > Faced with this array of possible health dangers, FDA granted the hearing > requests. In lieu of withdrawing its aspartame approval, the agency > prevailed on Searle to refrain from marketing the sweetener until after > completion of the hearing process. it then proposed that a Public Board of > Inquiry (PBOI) review the matter. > > In July of 1975, as the FDA prepared for the PBOI, an FDA inspector > conducted a routine review of the Searle's Skokie Ill., testing facilities > and found many deviations from proper procedures. This report led the FDA > commissioner to empanel a Special Commissioner's Task Force to review > Searle's labs. > > In December of 1975 the Task force reported serious problem with Searle > research on a wide range of products, including aspartame. It found 11 > pivotal studies conducted in a manner so flawed as to raise doubts about > aspartame safety and create the possibility of serious criminal liability > for Searle. > > The FDA then stayed aspartame's approval. It also contracted, over serious > internal objection, with a group of university pathologists (paid by > Searle) to review most of the studies, set up a task force to review three > studies and asked the U.S. Attorney for Chicago to seek a grand jury >review of the monkey seizure study. > > The pathologists paid by Searle only reviewed failure to properly report > data and not the study's design or conduct. They found no serious problems. > The FDA task force found Searle's key tumor safety study unreliable, but > was ignored. The U.S. attorney let the statue of limitations run out, then > (along with two aides) proceeded to join Searle's law firm. > > While these committees met, the FDA organized the PBOI. Searle, the > petitioners and the FDA Bureau of Foods each nominated three members for > the board and the FDA commissioner selected one member from each > list. The board, which convened in January of 1980, rejected > petitioners' request to > include the commissioner's task force information in its deliberations. > Still, in October 1980, based on its limited review, the board blocked > aspartame marketing until the tumor studies could be explained. Unless the > commissioner overruled the board, the matter was closed. > > In November 1980, however, the country elected Ronald Reagan President. > Donald Rumsfeld (former congressman from Skokie, former White House chief > of staff, former secretary of defense and since January 1977 president of > Searle) joined the Reagan transition team. A full court press against the > board decision began. > > In January 1981 Rumsfeld told a sales meeting, according to one attendee, > that he would call in his chips and get aspartame approved by the end of > the year. On January 25th, the day the new president took office, the > previous FDA commissioner's authority was suspended, and the next month, > the commissioner's job went to Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes. > > Transition records do not show why the administration chose ***Hayes, a > professor and Defense Department contract researcher.*** In July Hayes, > defying FDA advisors, approved aspartame for dry foods -- his first major > decision. In November 1983 the FDA approved aspartame for soft drinks -- > Hayes' last decision. > > In November 1983 Hayes, under fire for accepting corporate gifts, left the > agency and went to Searle's public-relations firm as senior medical > advisor. Later Searle lawyer Robert Shapiro named aspartame NutraSweet. > Monsanto purchased Searle. Rumsfeld received a $12 million bonus. Shapiro > is now Monsanto president. > > Shortly after the FDA soft-drink approval, Searle began test marketing, >and complaints began to arrive at the FDA -- of such reactions as dizziness, > blurred vision, headaches, and seizures. The complaints were more serious > than the agency had ever received on any food additive, At the same time, > scientists began looking more closely at this manufactured chemical >sweetener. > > In 1985, the FDA asked the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to review the > first 650 complaints (there are now over 10,000). CDC found that the > symptoms in approximately 25% of the complainants had stopped and then > restarted, corresponding with their having stopped and then restarted, > either purposely or by accident, aspartame consumption. > > The CDC also identified several specific subjects whose symptoms stopped > and started as they stopped and started consuming aspartame. The FDA > discounted the report. The day the FDA released the CDC report, Pepsi Cola > -- having obained an advance copy -- announced its switch to aspartame >with a worldwide media blitz. > > Former White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld owed a debt of gratitude to > former White House confidante and Rumsfeld friend Donald Kendal, Pepsi's > chairman. The Pepsi announcement and aggressive marketing (millions of > gumballs, a red and white swirl, tough contracts) made NutraSweet known in > every home. > > At the same time, according to data released in 1995, human brain tumors > like those in the animal studies rose 10% and previously benign tumors > turned virulent. Searle and FDA's deputy commissioner said the data posed > no problem. Two years later this same FDA official became vice president >of clinical research for Searle. > > From 1985 to 1995, researchers did about 400 aspartame studies. They were > divided almost evenly between those that gave assurances and those that > raised questions about the sweetener. Most instructively, Searle paid for > 100% of those finding no problem. All studies paid for by non-industry > sources raised questions. > > Given this record, it is little wonder that many health-conscious people > believe avoiding NutraSweet improves their quality of life. If and when a > scientific consensus concludes that aspartame puts some, if not all, of >its consumers at risk, it will be much too late. The point is to eat safely > now. Remember: the brain you save may be your own. > > James S. Turner, Esq., is a partner in the 27-year-old Washington, D.C. > consumer-interest law firm of Swankin and Turner. He is the author of The > Chemical Feast: The Nader Report on the Food and Drug Administration, > Making Your Own Baby Food, and a number of law journal and popular media > articles. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Allbright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:10 AM Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: Fw: IS BUSH NUTS? by William Thomas > Bummer I really want that info > > -----Original Message----- > From: Appal Energy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:38 PM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Fw: IS BUSH NUTS? by William Thomas > > > Hey Doug, > > You've amused...I mean assumed wrongly. > > I just care to have a little supportive reference to studies or at least be > informed of the principal making the assertion - not the off-hand "factual > dismissals" correlating to an "8 ounce glass of fruit juice." > > Don't suppose you know of anyone chugging 18 glasses of tomato or orange > juice each day, day in and day out do you? (12 x12 = 18 x 8) ? > > Todd Swearingen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Allbright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:02 PM > Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: Fw: IS BUSH NUTS? by William Thomas > > > > Hey Todd > > > > You being a journalist I would bet you could share some links or > documentation that support your argument about aspartame. could you share > them with us. > > > > Thanks > > Doug > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Appal Energy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:59 PM > > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Fw: IS BUSH NUTS? by William Thomas > > > > > > > I have too little time to deal with factual information, than to spend > > time reading misinformation. > > > > > > Motie > > > > If a person reads only what is acceptable to their own bias, then they are > > already fertile ground for, if not already victim of, mis- and > > dis-information - perfectly evidenced by your formation of an opinion > based > > upon what you didn't read. > > > > Too bad, the last paragraphs even had some first-generation value to > > homebrewers who use methanol. > > > > Todd Swearingen > > > > Part of what you didn't read..... > > > > "Would you drink 6 to 12 cans of formaldehyde a day? It turns out that > > methanol in Aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the tissues. As > Guildford > > wrote to USN Captain Eleanor Marino, Physician to the President (Feb. 21, > > 2002): 10% of a 200mg can of diet soda is straight methanol wood alcohol! > > Methanol is such a gross cumulative poison, the EPA's limit for drinking > > water is 7.8 mg daily. For serious addicts like Bush, the methanol intake > > can exceed 32 times the EPA's recommended limit... > > > > Now the punch line: Clinical case studies shows that, among other > symptoms, > > Aspartame ingestion results in "mind fog", feeling "unreal", poor memory, > > confusion, anxiety, irritability, depression, mania, and slurred speech. > > [Neurology 1994] > > > > Alcohol-related brain damage is not helped by chugging formaldehyde. James > > Turner, consumer protection lawyer and author of The Chemical Feast > learned > > that an Oct. 1980 FDA inquiry found that the formaldehyde formed by > > Aspartame actually eats microscopic holes and triggers tumors in the > brain. > > > > That finding banned Aspartame from the food supply. But three months > later, > > Searle CEO Donald Rumsfeld told that pharma giant's sales staff he would > get > > Aspartame approved pronto. The next month, the FDA commissioner was > replaced > > by Dr. Arthur Hayes. In Nov. 1983 the FDA approved aspartame for soft > > drinks. Under fire for accepting corporate bribes, Hayes went to work for > > Searle's public-relations firm. Searle lawyer Robert Shapiro coined the > name > > NutraSweet. Monsanto bought Searle. Rumsfeld received $12 million for his > > help. Shapiro now heads Monsanto. > > > > The same "revolving door" swings wide for arms makers and the oil mafia. > The > > Big Question is: Why hasn't Dick warned George that the diet drinks he's > > swilling are eating his brain and making him crazy? > > > > Crazy? Am I calling the President-Select of the Excited States crazy? Not > > me. As a journalist, I can only point out that published medical evidence > > goes frighteningly far in explaining GW's behavior. For certain, this good > > ol' boy should go in for a brain scan before being allowed to command more > > firepower than the next 11 nations combined. If George W. Bush is not > crazy > > -- he's sure acting like it." > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:39 PM > > Subject: [biofuel] Re: Fw: IS BUSH NUTS? by William Thomas > > > > [snip] > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > I didn't resppond earlier in an attempt to not contribute to the high > > > traffic volume of the list lately. > > > I didn't bother to read that whole article. It turned me off almost > > > instantly when he mentioned that Bush is 'unelected'. > > > I figured that the rest of the article was likely to be similar > > > Drivel. > > > I have too little time to deal with factual information, than to > > > spend time reading misinformation. > > > > > > Motie > > > > > > > > Yahoo! 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