From: Marshall Dudley <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:58:50 -0400
Subject: Re: CS>Aspartame
Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:03:05 -0700
Jack Dayton wrote:
It was Marshall who made the statement about ant poison.
He was referring to Diet sodas, but no mention of aspertame
was included with the statement, just that vitamin
supplement retailers were selling products that contained
"rat poison", which is what caused me to jump on that.
That is not true. Aspartame was indeed mentioned, and it said ant poison,
not rat poison.
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Hi Marshall,
What follows is all it took to make the wife & I toss the aspertame.
While classified as a civil action, "the United States of America vs. forty
cardboard boxes" had all the trappings of a big-time drug bust. It took
place on a summer day in 1991, when a bevy of armed federal marshals raided
the Arlington, Texas, warehouse of businessman Oscar Rodes, served him with
a warrant, and proceeded to seize his most recent shipment.
"They didn't give me any advance notice or anything," Rodes recalls. "They
came in my office in the warehouse, and that's when they showed me the
papers" and "took everything away." Rodes himself was not taken into
custody. The arrest warrant was for the boxes he had just imported from
South America, which contained some dried leaves and a white powder
extracted from them.
It would appear that once again the brass at the FDA has climbed into a big
business bed.
Get more about this travesty at:
http://www.stevia.net/newagesweet.htm
Some times I almost wish I had a representative in D.C. to complain to.
Jack
