An earlier email re aspartame included explanation of Monsanto’s connection. Update.
From Al:
Greetings;
Here is more evidence (see below) that the institutions that are supposed to be protecting the public health are failing. In this case it is aspartame in the U.S. but we have similar problems in Canada.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) not banning the feeding of animal products to ruminants. Yet they were warned over three years ago that allowing animal wastes, especially brains and spinal cords, to be incorporated into ruminant feed, was a guarantee to spread BSE. And spread it did.
Vioxx, like aspartame, was approved by Health Canada for widespread use. Now Vioxx, after only an 18 month study is being pulled from the market because the testing was inadequate and now heart problems show up.
Mecoprop, an ingredient in 98 herbicide products, has been deregistered because of health and environmental problems, yet the Federal Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is allowing it to be used until 2009.
Our Sask. health department won’t do anything about removing Mecoprop from the market, even though they agree, “most of the concern is about the potential for long term toxicity, whether it be neurotoxicity, teratogenicity or carcenogenicity. Among the issues related to it are that it acts slowly (over a couple of weeks) and that it can be fairly persistent in the environment (weeks).” If that isn’t reason for our health department to order the removal of products containing Mecoprop, I guess nothing is.
All of these cases point out that the institutions set up to protect the public health and the environment are more interested in the economic health of the industries they regulate than they are in protecting the public health and the environment.
Seems to me some good investigative journalism would expose these deficiencies. Their mandates need to change so our institutions do what we pay them to do. Protect our food supply, the public health and the environment.
Thanks for listening to me. I hope to soon see and hear something in the news.
Take care.
Allan S. Taylor
Regina, Sask.
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“To sin by silence, when they should protest,
makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 15, 2004 National Press Conference, Thursday 9/16 11:00 A.M.
Sheraton Grand Hotel 1230 J Street Sacramento, CA
Racketeering Charges Filed Against NutraSweet Co., American Diabetes Association, Monsanto & Dr Robert H.
Moser for Manufacturing and Marketing Toxic Aspartame
San Francisco, CA:
A RACKETEER INFLUENCED & CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS [RICO] complaint has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit, filed by a member of The National Justice League, charges the defendants with manufacturing and marketing a deadly neurotoxin unfit for human consumption, while they assured the pubic that aspartame (also known as
NutraSweet/Equal) contaminated products are safe and healthful, even for children and pregnant women.
Present Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is mentioned throughout the lawsuit.
As evidence, an explosive affidavit from a former employee of the G.D. Searle Co – the developer of aspartame – will be made public at a National Press Conference on Thursday, September 16 at 11:00 a.m. at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel, 1230 J Street, Sacramento, California 95814, phone (916) 447-1700.
For 16 years, the FDA denied approval of aspartame because of compelling evidence of its contributing to brain tumors and other serious disabilities. Donald Rumsfeld, present Secretary of Defense in the Bush Administration, left President Ford’s administration as Chief of Staff to become the CEO of aspartame producer G D Searle Co. in 1981. Shortly after, Rumsfeld became the CEO, and the day after President Reagan took office, aspartame was quickly approved by FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes over the objections of the FDA’s Public Board of Inquiry. Hayes had been recently appointed by the Reagan Administration.
Shortly after aspartame’s approval by the FDA, Hayes joined NutraSweet’s public relations firm under a ten year contract at $1,000 a day.
Aspartame/NutraSweet was the product of the G. D. Searle Co. In January 1977, the FDA wrote a 33 page letter to U.S. Justice Department Attorney Sam Skinner: “We request that your office convene a Grand Jury investigation into apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.” Skinner allowed the Statute of Limitations to run.
Three FDA Commissioners and eight other officers and Skinner took jobs in the aspartame industry shortly after it was approved in 1982.
The Food and Drug Administration once listed 92 adverse reactions from 10,000 consumer complaints and sent the list to all inquirers. In 1996 the FDA stopped taking complaints and now denies existence of the report. Seizures, blindness, sexual dysfunction, obesity, testicular, mammary and brain tumors and death, plus dozens of other dread diseases named in the suit arise from the consumption of this neurotoxin.
Defendant Moser, past CEO of NutraSweet, is cited for misrepresenting facts to public and commercial users with full knowledge of the deceptions. The toxin is sold to Bayer, Con Agra Foods, Dannon, Smucker, Kellogg, Wrigley, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods (Crystal Light), Conopco (Slim-Fast), Coke, Pfizer, Wal-Mart and Wyeth (to name a few), who use it in some of their products, including children’s vitamins. The National Justice League currently has suits filed against these companies in California courts.
Defendant American Diabetes Association’s mission is to care for diabetics. A 35 year ADA member, world famous diabetic specialist H.J.Roberts, M.D., discovered aspartame can precipitate diabetes and reacts harmfully with insulin. ADA rejected his report which was then published in a prestigious medical journal.
The seven count indictment includes charges for violation of California Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Fraud, violations of California Civil Code §1780-1784 and Injunctive Relief: that Defendants be enjoined from future use/sale of aspartame.
For more information or to request an interview,
contact:
Britt Groom, Attorney at Law
2205 Hilltop Drive #2022
Redding, CA 96002
Message or fax request to (530) 248-3483 Or email: info@nationaljusticeleague.net
Website: http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com
Click to see lawsuit as filed: http://www.wnho.net/nutrasweet_company_lawsuit.htm
Click to see video: Rumsfeld/Aspartame http://www.soundandfury.tv/Pages/Rumsfeld2.html
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