Pharmaceutical Industry putting Aspartame in the very drugs used to treat the problems it causes: - FDA is the problem

[Guest guest]

Dear Shirley,

 

Obviously the answer is they do it on purpose, and not to the benefit

of the consumer. Someone just told me Lifesavers uses aspartame as a

flavor enhancer. So now we have poison as a flavor enhancer.

 

It's just come down to not eating processed foods at all, and making

sure anytime you are prescribed a drug its not got aspartame in

it. However, what bothers me is using it without labeling, and

adding it to natural or artificial flavors.

 

Aspartame was never an additive. They knew it was a drug from the

beginning. Because it damages the mitochondria it interacts with

virtually all drugs and vaccines. Now we have the global epidemic of

Aspartame Disease. In fact, the medical text is called Aspartame

Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.sunsentpress.com

 

The FDA is not going to help. They are part of the problem. An

article titled Pharma Facade Cracking Over Controversies in the

January issue of the Idaho Observer (2005) stated:

 

" A little more than one year ago the LA Times broke a huge story

about the incestuous relationship between scientists at the National

Institutes for Health, officials at the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration and pharmaceutical company executives. Rep James

Greenwood (R - PA) noted that, " This is not a matter of a revolving

door where NIH people go from the federal agency to the private

sector,. This is a question of a swivel chair where they sit at one

desk and do both jobs. " As I have mentioned many times, " FDA is Big

Pharma's Washington Branch Office " .

 

The pharmaceutical industry is putting aspartame in the very drugs

used to treat the problems it causes. For instance, headache is #1

on the FDA list of 92 symptoms. The victim doesn't know that

aspartame is the culprit because an additive is suppose to be inert

or non-reactive. So the victim goes to the doctor and he prescribes

Maxalt by Merck for headache. It contain aspartame. Aspartame also

can trigger Parkinson's which violently many times interacts with

L-Dopa. Schwartz Pharmaceutical adds aspartame to

Parcopa. Aspartame is escalating asthma and products like Singulair

contain aspartame, now said to be causing suicidal tendencies. The

phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and depletes

serotonin which triggers suicidal tendencies, bipolar, panic attacks, etc.

 

Talking about bipolar, aspartame is an inactive ingredient of

Risperdal M-Tab orally disintegrating tablets - each 2 mg. tablet

contains 0.56 phenylalanine and each 1 mg tablet, 0.28 mg.

phenylalanine. So aspartame triggers bipolar and now they give

aspartame back to them in Risperdal used to treat the problem. The

FDA noted the frequency of prolactin-producing pituitary tumors in

patients taking

risperidone, a drug widely prescribed for schizophrenia and bipolar

disorder. Of 64 patients with

pituitary tumors receiving anti-psychotics, 48 had been using

risperidone. Dr. H. J. Roberts wrote a paper about this. Aspartame

triggered pituitary tumors in original studies. Now its triggering

these tumors in patients using a drug that contains aspartame.

 

The FDA is allowing this, the very agency who knows how deadly

aspartame is because they tried to have them indicted for fraud. You

just can't do a study on a poison and show safety and they got caught

doing things like excising brain tumors from rats, putting them back

in the study and when they died resurrected them on paper. They also

revoked the petition for approval because aspartame could not be

proven safe and caused brain tumors. Don Rumsfeld through political

chancery got aspartame marketed as discussed in the aspartame

documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World. www.soundandfury.tv

 

In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute petitioned the FDA to ban

aspartame because it was causing so many seizures and people were

going blind. The FDA refused even though it had full knowledge of

this. So the FDA has nothing to do with safe food and drugs. It is

the Food and Death Association who raids health food stores to snatch

healthful vitamins and herbs and at the same time approves poisons

for the public. They sit by and do nothing with this

happening. This is why I say everyone should write their

congressman. The FDA's doors need to be shut forever. When those

responsible to solve the problem ARE the problems its an

abomination. As long as the incestuous relationship of the FDA

exists with the pharmaceutical industry the public will continue to

be poisoned. They receive money from the pharmaceutical industry and

its well known you can't serve two masters. So the FDA has betrayed

the public trust and is the cause of the problems that exist.

 

Consider that even pediatric pharmaceuticals are not safe and they do

not even spare the children. A mother takes her child to a

pediatrician and he proscribes Augmentin, pediatric Penicillin. It

has aspartame in it. Then the mother goes to the store and buys

over-the-counter cough syrup and such that have aspartame in it. On

January 7, 2005, WZZM13 News coverage published an article

titled: " Researchers May Have Found Cause for Sudden Death

Syndrome " . The article said: " 3000 children die every year of

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, better known as SIDS. ... They say a

lack of Serotonin, the brain chemical known for regulating moods,

also helps the body set the pace for breathing. " The phenylalanine

in aspartame depletes serotonin!. Here is a case in

point: http://www.wnho.net/sweetened_horror_story.htm So the FDA

doesn't even care how many babies and children die each year because

they have refused to ban aspartame. Aspartame triggers an irregular

hearth rhythm and interacts with cardiac medication. It damages the

cardiac conduction system and causes sudden. Imagine a baby being

given this poison. Their little hearts can't take it. Even young

student athletes are dropping dead. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm

 

Now pharmaceutical companies say they will remove over-the-counter

products for toddlers like two year olds voluntarily because it has

been brought to their attention babies are dying for some reason. Be

assured they are still there as I checked a couple of months

ago. Some of the products also now contain Splenda which is a

chlorocarbon poison. The FDA has been petitioned to ban Splenda as

well but the FDA does nothing. I filed a petition to ban aspartame 6

years ago which has to be answered in 180 days. The FDA ignored

it. I filed an amendment based on an imminent health hazard which

has to be answered immediately, like a week or ten years. This was

done in October and they have ignored it. The FDA serves above the

law and is the problem. People are dying because the FDA refuses to

do its job so Big Pharma can gouge the public and make more billions

to influence and control. We now have a Fascist government.

 

If you and everyone on these lists sends this to their congressman

maybe we can get their doors closed. Today they are guilty of the

very same crime, Title 18, Section 1001, they filed against the

original manufacturer of aspartame, G. D. Searle. Their web site

tells the public aspartame is safe, and they put out propaganda in

their FDA Talk Paper, with full knowledge they are lying.

 

The first weekend after Labor Day is Aspartame Awareness Weekend. I

think this year we will try and get the poisons off restaurant

tables, and I'll write a flyer. And we should all write Congress to

do something about the FDA. Congress gives them more money and they

use it for bonuses. After all, they have no use to use it to protect

the public, since its obvious that's one thing they don't do.

 

All my best,

Betty

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners

 

 

 

At 11:59 AM 7/16/2008, Shirley wrote:

>can you explain to me why they put aspartame in a pill that is swallowed...

>what difference does it make if it is sweet or not when you never taste

>it????Shirley

>

>

>Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. [bettym19]

>Monday, July 14, 2008 11:36 AM

>bettym19

>Epilepsy Study Incriminates Aspartame in Medications

>

>

>

>

>EPILEPSY STUDY INCRIMINATES ASPARTAME in MEDICATIONS

>

>By Dr. GLEN MABSON, Phd,

>CEO: Epileptic Foundation of Maui dba Pacific Epilepsy Soc.

>A Nonprofit Community Supported Public Foundation IRS 501-©(3)

>

>

>The Pacific Epilepsy Society in affiliation with the Epileptic

>Foundation of Maui has completed a seven year study on Epilepsy and

>Seizures, finding that epilepsy is at an all time high in Hawaii and

>the western states and Pacific Ocean Territories. There has been

>a100% increase over the two previous years. See EFM Survey, Freedom

>of Info Act 2000-2008 & EFM Survey 1999-03

>

>The most profound reason for the spectacular increase in seizures is

>the inclusion of the drug ASPARTAME in with the new larger sized

>anti-seizure drugs: DILANTIN, DEPACOAT, TEGRATOL and several others

>produced by major pharmaceutical corporations. In 2007 the

>manufacture of Dilantin changed the description of the 100 mg.

>Dilantin, changed the 100 mg white capsule with red stripe to a much

>larger white capsule, orange on one end, which contains 100 mg of the

>drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin capsule

>found the seizure rate increased in every case. The Chemical

>Pharmaceutical Engineer employee, in fear of his job would not reveal

>his name, but said they were adding aspartame. He said the new

>larger orange & white Dilantin is also labeled 100 mg,

>

>Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, President of the Epilepsy Foundation

>of Hawaii (a separate organization from the above) is sympathetic to

>the makers of ASPARTAME and routinely prescribes these drugs. I

>believe this contributes to the increase of epilepsy in these areas.

>

>Glenn Mabson, PhD., CEO

>Epileptic Foundation of Maui (dba Pacific Epilepsy Society)

> 808 879 8999

>

>

>INTERVIEW WITH DR. MABSON: by Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

>

>MARTINI: How did you get started in this investigation, and why, Dr. Mabson

>

>MABSON From 1999 to 2007 The Epileptic Foundation of Maui conducted

>a survey on the number of people in Maui suffering from the three

>most prevalent types of epileptic seizures:

>(1) Absence (2) Complex-partial (3) Grand Mal Seizures.

>

>4,975 victims from a Maui Population of 130,000 suffered from one of

>these types of seizures. Seniors over 65 and children 12 or less had

>increased epileptic seizures. The count for the entire state of

>Hawaii is over 28,000 seizure victims.

>

>In an effort to determine the most effective medication it was

>discovered that well over 50% of the victims consumed medications

>containing aspartame. We inquired as to what anti-seizure medications

>were mostly prescribed to control their seizures. Dilantin, Tegratol

>and Depacote contained most aspartame amount among the 22 most

>utilized anti-seizure medications.

>

>In 2007 the Dilantin changed the 100 mg white capsule with red stripe

>to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which contains 100

>mg of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin

>capsule found the seizure rate increased in every case.

>

>Impaired vision and thinking, and it is suspected glaucoma in fifty

>patients who never had visual problems prior to taking the new

>Dilantin capsule. We suspected this was an experiment out of

>control. A manufacturer of Dilantin then confirmed aspartame is in

>the drug.

>

>MARTINI: Were there any deaths having to do with aspartame?

>

>MABSON: Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, has been prescribing aspartame

>to patients in large quantities with negative results, in some cases

>as many as 150 highly suspected deaths. He is president of the

>Epilepsy Foundation of Hawaii.

>

>MARTINI: What is the difference between your organization and Steins?

>

>MABSON: A big and important difference: The Epileptic Foundation of

>Maui (EFM) provides first aid to epilepsy victims, hands on help,

>with a 24/7 Help Line 1 888-919-9444 We have trained more than 5000

>parents, Maui Police, Department of Public Safety, IRS, Hawaii

>Business and Public Schools at no cost! We provide immediate,

>practical lifesaving care to seizure victims.

>

>This is very personal to me. I have traumatic epilepsy from torture

>during 18 months as a civilian prisoner of war in Viet Nam. Over 50

>dedicated volunteers carry out this public service. We take no money

>from aspartame makers.

>

>MARTINI: So what does Steins organization do?

>

>MABSON: It sells books and some outdated documents, but provides no

>personal service.

>

>MARTINI: In what journals have you published?

>

>MABSON: Among many others, the following: Neurology 48:621.

>Hamberg University News 2003, Strouseburg on Epilepsy Vol 2 pp 5, 6,

>7 & 8 Savic, International. Athurer lnternational Epilepsy Research

>26:245 2002: Long Term Follow-up After Temporal Lobe Resection for

>Lesions Associated With Choric Seizures

>

>

>Note by Betty Martini, D.Hum: It has been known that aspartame is a

>seizure triggering drug for three decades. In a 52 week aspartame

>oral toxicity study on 7 infant monkeys, 5 had grand mal seizures and

>1 died. http://www.aspartaam.nl/artikelen_eng/raorapport.txt

>

>The FDAs 1995 list of 92 documented symptoms from 10,000 citizen

>complaints named 4 types of seizures, death, blindness, sexual

>disfunction and a long list of neurological

>injuries. www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf

>

>Dr. Richard Wurtman testified against aspartame to Congress. He told

>UPI investigator Gregory Gordon that he was threatened by the VP of G

>D Searle Co, aspartame producer , that his funding would be killed if

>he studied aspartame seizures. So Wurtman speaks no more against

>aspartame but he left quite a paper trail.

>http://www.wnho.net/upi_1987_aspartame1.htm

>

>Mrs. Barbara Metzler, Mission Possible New Jersey, tells about her

>daughter Julia:

>In April 1986 Julia was completing her graduate studies, was

>diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. A neurologist in Pennsylvania

>was treating her with medication he deemed appropriate, but without

>success. I learned Dr. Richard Wurtman of the Massachusetts

>Institute of Technology was doing research into a possible link

>between epileptic seizures and aspartame. (NutraSweet). It occurred

>to me that aspartame may have triggered her problems, since I

>experienced that beverages sweetened with aspartame gave me classic

>migraines. I spoke to my daughters many friends, and they watched

>her carefully and reported individually that she had peculiar

>episodes shortly after they saw her drink diet soda. So I wrote to

>Dr. Wurtman and he replied:

>

>Thank you for writing to us about your daughters condition that may

>very well be associated with NutraSweet. He requested that I send

>him specific information about Julies neurological problems, then

>arranged for her to be evaluated at Beth Israel Hospital in

>Boston. Her evaluation included 3 days of monitoring with EEG

>telemetry as well as neuropsychological testing.

>

>When the testing was completed, my daughter was told that she had

>been misdiagnosed by her Pennsylvania neurologist and that she did

>not have temporal lobe epilepsy at all. She was advised to stop her

>medication and to stop drinking diet soda. She listened, and little

>by little, her bizarre problem disappeared. To watch her recover was

>an incredible experience! Twelve years later, she tried diet soda

>again and she had the same severe reaction. She quit the diet soda

>sweetened with aspartame and never had a problem again.

>

>I also contacted Dr. H.J. Roberts in Florida and he immediately

>suggested that my daughter was suffering from a reaction to the

>artificial sweetener aspartame in her diet soda. And, he realized

>that the aspartame also had a definite effect on her cognitive

>functioning and her vision.

>This case is presented in two of Dr. Roberts books exposing aspartame.

>How do aspartame makers get research to show their poison is

>harmless? The golden rule applies: He who supplies the Gold makes the

>Rules. Researchers-for-hire are vassals of the corporations paying

>them. If they come back with the honest analysis: Your junk is a

>killer! they get blacklisted, so naturally their report reads: Your

>glorious scientific breakthrough is marvelous, safe, effective and

>wonderful and everybody in the World should take it twice a

>day! [if we don't lie about it somebody else will!]

>

>And should you publish a medical magazine, all it takes to get

>ridiculous fake research published is a fat advertising contract. Dr.

>Ralph Walton correlated scientific studies with their funding and

>determined that 92% of independent studies unfunded by corporations,

>show aspartame problems, but 100% of corporate controlled research

>declare it safe. http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html

>

>G. D. Searle Cos reports to the FDA were so bad that the Justice

>Department initiated prosecution for fraud. The easy to fix for

>Searle: was to hire the prosecutors, who stalled until the statute of

>limitations was about to run out, then left the Government.

>

>You just cant make a poison safe. Here is the famous FDA audit, the

>Bressler Report: http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt

>

>Dr. Ralph Walton did his own study on aspartame which was then owned

>by Monsanto who refused to sell him the aspartame because they

>couldnt control his research. But the study was shut down after one

>man had a retinal detachment and never regained the sight in one eye.

>Another volunteer had conjunctival bleeding and others complained of

>being poisoned. In speaking to Dr.Walton about this study, he

>replied: We have known for many years that aspartame lowers the

>seizure threshold. To combine an anticonvulsive with aspartame to

>make seizures more likely is outrageous. Read his report on aspartame

>seizures and psychiatric

>disorders.

>http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_and_psychiatric_disorders.htm

>

>Here is research by Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center,

>showing scientific abuse in seizure research and aspartame by

>industry. http://www.dorway.com/wurtman2.html

>

>Washington Consumer Attorney James Turner, who fought with Dr. Olney

>to prevent aspartame approval commented on the Epileptic Foundation

>of Mauis study:

>

>This study has confirmed that aspartame triggers both seizures and

>epilepsy, but this isnt news to me. In 1986 I was the attorney for

>the Community Nutrition Institute who petitioned FDA to ban aspartame

>for that exact reason. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of

>Technology surveyed 80 people who experienced seizures after

>consuming aspartame. The petition of Community Nutrition Institutes

>petition said:

>

> These 80 cases meet the FDA's definition of an imminent hazard to

>the public health, which requires FDA to expeditiously remove a

>product from the market. " His case went all the way to the Supreme

>Court and was turned down, which shows the power of the

>manufacturers, because how could any Supreme Court Justice who

>examined proof that aspartame triggers seizures let it stay on the market.

>

>Our Supreme Court is overwhelmed by Big Pharma's influence as shown

>by the Court's February decision, Riegel v. Medtronic Inc., barring

>lawsuits in state courts that challenge and contest the

>safety/effectiveness of medical devices that are FDA

>approved. Recently lawmakers have unveiled plans to introduce

>legislation in the House and Senate to overturn that decision which

>restricts states authority and deprives afflicted patients of any

>recourse for damages.

>

>Next Big Pharma will attempt to become free of any liability from

>dangerous drugs that inflict disability and death on consumers. Of

>course this is unconstitutional. Had the FDA banned aspartame in

>l986 thousands of aspartame victims would still be

>alive. Subsequently FDA listed 92 aspartame symptoms including four

>types of seizures, and death, which were tabulated from over 10,000

>volunteered consumer complaints.

>

>On Maui, a Pacific paradise, over 100 aspartame seizures victims have

>died. Multiply that in over 100 countries where aspartame is consumed

>in thousands of foods and soft drinks. It should be banned by Codex

>to prevent a rampaging scourge as it would multiply in even more countries.

>

>FDA list of reactions to aspartame named grand mal seizures, seizures

>and convulsions, petit mal seizures, now called absence seizures,

>simple partial seizures & complex partial seizures. An imminent

>health hazard amendment in October to a 6 year old Citizens

>Petition to ban aspartame by Dr. Betty Martini, Founder of Mission

>Possible International, has been ignored by the FDA. The FDA is

>corrupted by the avalanche of cash paid by the companies it

>regulates, over half of FDA funding. Face it, FDA works for Big

>Pharma, not citizens. It should immediately ban aspartame, as it

>should have done 22 years ago instead of continuing in the hire of

>aspartame producers.

>

>The Epileptic Foundation of Mauis research shows anti-seizure drugs

>contain seizure triggering aspartame which they give to epileptics to

>stop seizures. When will this obscene insanity cease.

>

>H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP authored the encyclopedic1,000 page

>text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic , and has reported on

>aspartame seizures for years, as well as drug interaction with

>anti-seizure medication. He said:

>

>Considering the large body of data pointing to aspartame-induced or

>aggravated epilepsy, I regard the virtual total lack of interest

>therein as disgraceful. For any who doubt the reality of this

>association, I have detailed the clinical and experimental

>information in many articles and four texts over the past quarter

>century. This issue has been compounded by the addition of aspartame

>to a number of drugs used to treat seizures. (www.sunsentpress.com)

>

>

>Dr. Kenneth P. Stoller explains:

>When large amounts of unopposed phenylalanine (1/3rd of the aspartame

>molecule) hits the brain it causes serotonin levels to crash which

>lowers seizure threshold, and in many cases causes frank seizures.

>This information has been known since the 1970s when the original

>research was done on monkeys but kept from the FDA by the then owner

>of the patent G. D. Searle. This is why the FDA called the US

>attorney to convene a grand jury against Searle. The lawyers

>representing Searle then bought the US Attorney who left the case to

>his assistant. The Grand Jury was allowed to expire and the

>assistant was then hired by the same law firm as his reward for

>killing the Grand Jury.

>

>

>President, International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc www.hbotnm.com

>Medical Director, Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico

>

>By law a food additive must be inert, non-reactive. Aspartame is a

>chemical poison, an excitoneurotoxic drug that interacts with

>virtually all drugs and vaccines. Because it rapidly degrades it

>quickly becomes adulterated. Its illegal to ship adulterated products

>according to interstate commerce laws. Only by the political clout of

>Don Rumsfeld, who was hired as CEO of the Searle Co to get it on the

>market, is it now poisoning the

>world.

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

>

> Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com

>wrote in Health & Nutrition to save Your Life: " So in the case of

>diet drinks in aluminum cans, the very toxic brain aluminum fluoride

>compound co-exists with multiple toxins found in aspartame, thus

>creating the most powerful government-approved toxic soup

>imaginable. " ....He says that drinking even one diet cola a day can

>cause formaldehyde buildup in cells, so that the amount of the toxin

>increases daily. "

>

>

>He also wrote that " phenylalanine is a precursor of the

>catecholamine neurotransmitters in the brain and elevated levels in

>the brain have been associated with seizures. These catecholamines

>are metabolized to form other excitotoxins and peroxide products that

>can lead to elevated free radical formation and lipid peroxidation

>within neurons.

>

> " Likewise aspartic acid, an excitotoxin, acts as an excitatory

>neurotransmitter and can lower the seizure threshold making a seizure

>more likely. The additive effect of aspartic acid and phenylalanine

>would significantly increase the likelihood of a seizure, especially

>under hypoglycemic conditions. This would occur if a diet drink is

>substituted for a meal, or if one is on a stringent diet. It is well

>known that hypoglycemia greatly magnifies the excitotoxic effects of

>these ingredients, "

>

>Now aspartame even in drugs, the very drugs that are used to treat

>the problems aspartame triggers in the first place, like seizures.

>

>Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

>Mission Possible International

>9270 River Club Parkway

>Duluth, Georgia 30097

>770 242-2599

>www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net

>Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

>Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners

>

>(PS) Now in the news: FDA Told to Skip Black Box on Epilepsy Drugs

>and Suicide WSJ

>

>Posted by Jacob Goldstein

>

>

>Until yesterday, the FDA had been rolling steadily toward

><http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/07/08/fda-still-mulling-warning-for-pfizer

>s-lyrica/>slapping

>a black-box warning on epilepsy drugs because they may increase the

>risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

>

>But a committee of outside experts convened by the FDA thinks thats a

>bad idea. The panel voted 14-4 against the black-box warning

>yesterday, with three abstentions,

><http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121570692715442899.html>the WSJ reports.

>

>The committee members did agree that some risk may be associated with

>the drugs. But the panel didn't seem to think that the risk, which

>the FDA found by pooling data from many studies, is high enough to

>merit a black-box - the most serious warning commonly used for

>prescription drugs. Among the medicines reviewed were Pfizers Lyrica,

>Abbott Laboratories Depakote and Johnson & Johnsons Topamax.

>

>One panel member said the risk appears to be modest. And some worried

>that the black-box warning might prevent some patients from taking

>the drugs in cases where the benefits of reducing seizures would

>outweigh the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

>

>The panel did support a more moderate step: Sending a medication

>guide to doctors detailing the risks.

>

>Suicide risk has been a big issue for the agency with

><http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/06/20/fda-got-left-out-on-paxil-risk-docum

>ents/>other

>drugs, so yesterdays vote puts the agency in a bit of an awkward spot

>on a very sensitive subject. The FDA isn't required to follow the

>advisory committees suggestions, but it usually does so.

>__________________________

>

>Note the FDA wanted to add a warning label on epileptic drugs because

>of suicidal thoughts and behavior.

>A panel of experts were convened and told the FDA to skip the black

>box warning. Who were the experts, Big Pharma. Is there any

>question regarding who is running the FDA? Recently the drug

>Singulair was in question because of suicidal tendencies. Even a 7

>year old was

>suicidal. http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_probes_suicide_in_singulair.htm

>Singulair has aspartame in it. The phenylalanine in aspartame lowers

>the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered serotonin

>triggers bipolar, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, anxiety, mood swings,

>etc. The FDA is probably still in the " probing " stage, and never

>gets any further because they are Big Pharma's Washington Branch Office.

>

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