Merrill recommended to the Justice Department Attorney Sam Skinner
that a grand jury investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 331 (e), and the False
Reports to the Government Act, 18 U.S.C. 1001, for "their willful and
knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration
required by the Act, 21 U.S.C 355 (i) and making false statements in
reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of
aspartame." The FDA called special attention to studies investigating
the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters.
Searle was caught dead to rights, so they hired Skinner, made him a
deal he couldn't refuse. So the former Justice Department prosecutor
became a defender. Next at bat asU. S. Prosecutor was William Conlon, who promptly switched sides too. By then the statute of limitations had expired. Searle knew they couldn't win the case so they simply hired the prosecutors.The Godfather hired the District Attorneys!
Nevertheless the FDA had no intention of approving aspartame. The
fraud was so great that Dr. John Olney (who with James Turner fought against approval of aspartame ) told Searle to do studies in his lab so he could see that they were done honestly, with supervision. Dr. Olney believed the FDA wouldn't approve aspartame because the studies showed it produced brain damaged. What he didn't anticipate is that Searle didn't submit these findings to the FDA.
January 30, 1980 the Public Board of Inquiry revoked Searle's petition for approval declaring that they had "not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive." Searle had spent $17 million on an aspartame factory and had no intention of giving up, poison or no. At this point they hired Donald Rumsfeld who said he would call in his markers and get it approved anyway.
What were those markers? President Reagan had told Rumsfeld he would be nominated for vice president, but instead selected Bush number 1.
The day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as the new FDA Commissioner, to over-rule the Board of Inquiry. Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to the FDA, so he wrote an Executive Order making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame. At 3 AM that night a member of Reagan's staff called the FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan and fired him. Here is a letter from his wife who was there when the terminating call came in: http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_about_jere_goyan.pdf
Once aspartame was on the market there was outrage as consumers were diagnosed with seizures, multiple sclerosis and blindness from the free methyl alcohol releases. Senator Orrin Hatch, on Monsanto's
payroll, obstructed hearings on aspartame for years, but there were 3
Congressional hearings from 1985 to l987. Hatch was on Monsanto's
payroll, and kept the bill in committee that would put a moratorium
on aspartame until NIH completed independent studies on the flood of
aspartame problems they were seeing: seizures, blindness, headaches, sexual dysfunction, behavioral problems, especially in children, drug
interactions and birth defects.
About that time Dr. James Bowen wrote FDA that "aspartame is mass
poisoning of the American public and 70 countries" - today over
100.
<http://www.dorway.com/drbowen.txt>http://www.dorway.com/drbowen.txt
The good doctor wrote: "For this reason, I am opposed to labeling
aspartame content of food and drinks. To do so would imply that the
government is taking some sort of responsible action....when the only
responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame off the
market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the
injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in
the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the marketplace."
How was the new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hayes, get rewarded for over-ruling the Board of Inquiry? He was hired as a consultant to
NutraSweet's PR Agency on a 10-year contract at $1,000.00 a day, and nobody's heard a peep from him since, he got lockjaw. Who ever heard of a PR guy who won't talk?
Now they began funding professional organizations ladies-of-the-evening like the American Diabetes Assn, American Dietetic Assn and numerous others to propagandize the public with touting asparshame. Of course they also threatened scientists whose studies identified the toxicity of this poison. In the UPI Investigation Dr. Wurtman was threatened if he did studies on aspartame and seizures he would lose his funding. He capitulated. Read this report on the 8 month investigation by United Press International:
<http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf
Dr. Wurtman, too, got a terrible case of aspartame lockjaw, but MIT
still gets the money.
ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute, was born in 1978 as a "research" front for our favorite poisoners. It's board members are from Coke, Pepsi, Searle, Monsanto and the rest of the usual suspects. If a university won't play their way the get no pay, that is to say, funding for fake "research".
Over the years many independent studies have been done. The
manufacturers say 200 studies that aspartame is safe as rain. Some of those were the ones FDA found fraudulent and sought prosecution
for, and others were simply bought and paid for quack studies from
rubber duck labs.
Consider seizure studies by Monsanto, they bought Searle in
l985:
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html>http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html
Seizures are listed 5 times on the FDA report of 92 symptoms that
range from male sexual dysfunction to death:
<http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf
People are having so many seizures and going blind on aspartame that
the Community Nutrition Institute filed a petition to ban aspartame
in l986. Again the manufacturers put in the fix to prevent it from
being banned.They were so worried someone would have a seizure they actually gave people anti-seizure medication in the Rowan study. '
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