FDA Destroys Incriminating Records on Aspartame

[Guest guest]

sender's name: Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum.

Original sender's address: bettym19

 

 

In 2002 I spoke with Jerome Bressler, author of the damning FDA audit

that exposed the corruption of the

G. D. Searle Co., originator of aspartame. Bressler reported that

rats killed by the poison were

resurrected on paper, neoplasms filtered out and cancers caused by

aspartame, were ignored and deleted from Searle's records. Today

this rat poison and cancer stimulator is sold as NutraSweet and Equal

and is in Diet Coke and thousands of other foods and drinks.

 

Bressler had retired and I wanted to thank him for being so

honest. But his reply was shocking. He

said, " If you think that's bad, when the FDA retyped my report they

left out the worst 20%. They deleted my cover letter and there are

two mice studies you need to see. Get those reports, they're very

important. " Doctors H. J. Roberts (Aspartame Disease: An Ignored

Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com ) and Russell Blaylock (Excitotoxins:

The Taste That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com ) also called Jerome

Bressler and got the same information.

 

This report is suppose to be a matter of public record so Dr. Roberts

asked his Congressman to get the record from the FDA. They even

refused his Congressman saying it was confidential. We were amazed

that the FDA could withhold public documents from United States

Congressmen. It's incriminating that a government agency like the

FDA who is suppose to be protecting the health of the public would

sell its soul to drug and chemical companies. [see the Bressler

Report at http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt Note that some tables

are blacked out and parts of the text are omitted.]

 

FDA took the Fifth. But the fifth amendment to our Constitution

doesn't permit federal agencies to hide

criminal collusion with firms it regulates.

 

So on November 13, 2007 I sent a certified request to FDA, exercising

my Freedom of Information rights to receive the 20% of the report

they deleted. They said its confidential and denied my request. I

wrote back and explained that Jerome Bressler never gave permission

for them to delete data from his FDA audit, and since this audit is

public information they must release it.

http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_foia_fda.htm

 

FDA's response arrived January 14, 2008 from Chicago, signed by

George F. Bailey, Freedom of Information Officer, stating this: " Due

to the amount of time that has elapsed since the Bressler Report was

written and based on the FDA's Records Retention Schedule, records in

our files of that age have been destroyed. " They were confidential

in November but when they realized there was no legal excuse to

withhold what they had doctored they were simply deleted.

 

Jerome Bressler blew the cover on G. D. Searle's perjuries. Some FDA

bureaucrat, to protect Searle,

blue-penciled Bressler's report, then the vital details of

aspartame's toxicity were denied to a congressman, and now its

destroyed. Balderdash! This watchdog for the health of a Nation

received more complaints on aspartame than on any other additive. In

1995 they published a list of 10,000 consumer

complaints. Isn't it comforting to know they destroy the evidence of

corruption, of deaths, disabilities

and complications visited on the public from approved drugs that

produce serious or fatal injuries. With digital recording & storage

technology that can maintain an infinity of data, FDA plunders

it. Call it criminal FDA-Gate!

 

Protecting industry is what the FDA does. Jerome Bressler is not the

only one who blew the whistle on the FDA. In 1987 Dr. Jacqueline

Verrett, a toxicologist and member of the Bressler Task Force,

testified before a US Senate hearing. She described the

discrepancies found in the Searle tests of aspartame as 'serious

departures from acceptable toxicological protocols.' " It is

unthinkable, " she said, 'that any reputable toxicologist giving a

complete, objective evaluation of the data resulting from such a

study could conclude anything other than that the study was

uninterpretable and worthless and should be repeated.'

" On the crucial question itself: 'It would appear that the safety of

aspartame and its breakdown products has still not been

satisfactorily determined, since many of the flaws cited in these

three studies were also present in all of the other studies submitted

by Searle.' "

 

What is particularly important about FDA toxicologist Dr. Verrett's

testimony is she is saying that aspartame still had not been proven

safe in 1987 and it had been on the market since 1981 which was due

to the political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld who was CEO of

Searle. Here is a clip about it from Sweet Misery: A Poisoned

World: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

 

Dr. Verrett went even further on exposing the FDA. She wrote the

book in l973 " Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health: The Case

Against Food Additives " . The Chicago Tribune said:

" After spending 15 years as a research scientist for the Food and

Drug Administration, Verrett decided to bite the hand that had been

feeding her. The FDA, she says, is not performing its duty; it has

the legal authority to end food pollution, but it has not done so and

it appears that its aims are not in that direction. Privy to a lot

of inside information, Verrett (with the aid of writer Carper) makes

a good case for the necessity of consumer protest. Read it -- all

you've got to lose it your appetite. "

 

Heroine, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett was not the only FDA toxicologist who

was on site and saw Searle's studies, and exposed FDA. On August 1,

l985 FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one

of Searle's studies " has established beyond ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that

aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals

and that this predisposition of it is of extremely high significance.

.... In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of

aspartame is a matter that had been established WAY BEYOND ANY

REASONABLE DOUBT, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent

refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called

Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act? "

 

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of

cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross

asked, " Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would the

FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame

as constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe' level of it? Is

that position in effect not equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for

this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA

itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health

of the public? " Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

 

So the FDA allowed a product on the market that had been proven to

cause cancer and gave a carcinogen an allowable daily dose. Then

when the impeccable Ramazzini Study was released that proved

aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen in 2005, which the FDA

had always known, peer reviewed by 7 world experts, they announced in

a report aspartame doesn't cause cancer and completely ignored

it. To make matters worse they released this notice on a Friday

prior to Dr. M. Soffritti releasing a second study the following day,

April 23, 2007 at the Mount Sinai Medical School of New York showing

not only does aspartame trigger cancer but even in small amounts. If

a pregnant woman uses it and the baby survives since aspartame is a

teratogen causing birth defects and mental retardation, that child

can grow up and get cancer. By releasing their report during the

same time period they confused the public. They have yet to comment

on this damning second study. Dr. Soffritti received the Irving J.

Selikoff Award for his work, a reward only given three times in

history. Barbara Metzler, Mission Possible New Jersey and myself attended.

 

The coverup of dangerous products by FDA cast upon the public is

notorious. Another example is the MSG fiasco. Glutamate researchers

used aspartame as a placebo in studies so they could say MSG wouldn't

react anymore than the placebo. MSG is also an excitotoxin like the

aspartic acid in aspartame as discussed in Dr. Blaylock's book,

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. In 1993 Jack Samuels, President

of the Truth in Labeling Campaign, was reviewing FDA docket files

relating to an FDA study on the safety of amino acids in

supplements. In the files, he found a letter dated March 22, 1991,

from Andrew G. Ebert, PhD, Chairman, International Glutamate

Technical Committee - a glutamate industry organization - in which

Ebert admitted that aspartame had been used since at least 1978 in

test and placebo materials that his organization provided to

scientists who study the safety of MSG. www.truthinlabeling.org

 

A review of studies conducted with the above-referenced test material

clearly indicates that some subjects reacted to both MSG test

material, and placebo material. Scientists conducting such studies

concluded that since subjects reacted to both MSG and placebos, their

reactions were not from MSG. Even though such logic is highly

questionable, we now know that subjects reacted to placebos because

of the presence of aspartame, an additive that causes MSG-type

responses in MSG responses in MSG-sensitive people. Because of the

disclosure of the use of aspartame in placebo material by Jack

Samuels, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental

Biology, in its July 1995 report on the safety of MSG in food,

concluded that the use of aspartame in placebo materials was

inappropriate. Why were these early studies not destroyed

too? Because the FDA was caught red-handed. They had known all

these years and done nothing. They did not even slap the hands of

the glutamate industry. Is aspartame still being used as their placebo?

 

In a Citizens Petition to ban six years ago I exposed the government

documents showing aspartame had never been proven safe and the FDA

had been lying to the public. The law requires that FDA answer in

180 days. They refused to answer it showing they serve above the

law. In October, 2007 I sent an amendment based on an imminent health

hazard which must be answered immediately. Again, FDA has not answered.

 

FDA-GATE requires Congress to immediately investigate aspartame

approval, Don Rumsfeld's part in this, and FDA's collusion with the

drug and chemical companies they regulate. In July, 2007 I lectured

in New Zealand and met with their Food Standards who admitted they

had done no studies on aspartame and relied on FDA. New Zealand has

their own petition to ban. So aspartame which is in reality an

addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts with

drugs and vaccines is being consumed in over 100 countries of the

world by an unwarned public, and has caused a global plague. While

the 47 members of the UK Parliament have asked for a ban Food

Standards there also using FDA propaganda has basically ignored the

issue except to say they will do an anecdotal study. Aspartame was

approved in the UK by Paul Turner with their agency through a

business deal with Searle. When Parliament found out they had a

blow-out, the story was in the Guardian, but the poison was never

rescinded. When New Mexico attempted to ban aspartame from the state

the capital was saturated with lobbyists lying to the Senate and

House again using FDA propaganda. Addressing the Senate was

difficult with a large proportion of Senators sipping on addictive

Diet Coke. Dr. Ken Stoller also testified and told these Senators he

didn't expect to get anywhere when they were using the product but at

least consider the children. The vote to table was actually by

someone who doesn't drink Diet Coke, the only physician in the

legislature, Steve Komadina, MD from Corrales, an obstetrician and

gynecologist who strongly advises his own patients not to use

aspartame because of the formaldehyde neurotoxicity and the

abortifacient effects on the fetus. Which lobbyist got to this

OB-GYN physician senator who didn't care about the rest of the babies

in New Mexico?

 

It was impossible for Searle to prove their neurotoxin is safe. In

one test on seven monkeys five had grand mal seizures and one died;

an 86% casualty rate. Records were destroyed to protect the guilty FDA

regulators and their corporate sugar-daddies who provide more than

half of FDA's funding. Who do you

think they work for: you or the chemical factories? How bad can it

get? How about a product that embalms living tissue and destroys

DNA? http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf I flew to

Barcelona to speak to the researcher who told me it could kill 200

million people. It already has. Another study FDA has ignored.

 

Congress should immediately step in and investigate and Codex should

ban aspartame from use.

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 770

242-2599

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