Aspartame: Scientific Studies Link Sweetener to Cancers

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Health Supreme Update: Aspartame: Scientific Studies Link

Sweetener to Cancers

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Health Supreme Update: Aspartame: Scientific Studies Link Sweetener to

Cancers

 

July 18, 2005

 

 

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The controversial artificial sweetener Aspartame is making

headline news, after a recent Italian study linked the common

ingredient in diet drinks to lymphomas and leukemias. Aspartame

was approved in a highly politicized maneuver involving

pressure from Donald Rumsfeld, the former CEO of Searle, the

Aspartame manufacturer. The recommendations of the FDA's own

scientific board of inquiry were overridden by a political

appointee to the FDA's top job, Arthur Hull Hayes, who

over-ruled that board of inquiry and soon after went to work

for the PR Agency of Searle, Burson-Marstaller. Aspartame

critics have pointed to the FDA's own adverse events data and

asked that the sweetener be taken off the market,...

 

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