Open Letter to the GAO: Michael Taylor, Monsanto attorney should be removed from the FDA because of conflict of interest, aspartame approval reinvestigated and banned.

[Guest guest]

Gentlemen:

 

Monsanto Attorney Michael Taylor is back at the FDA. While I

understand an arm of Congress must request an investigation my

Senator and Congressman are receiving a copy of this, but its

necessary that all have the facts. Regardless of Taylor's position

with the FDA you can be assured the FDA is now Monsanto's

Washington Branch Office. The GAO failed the public in the past when

Taylor went to FDA to get rBST approved. The public needs to know

the Government is protecting them, not industry. The GAO

investigated aspartame's approval and again let the people down when

the facts were black and white.

 

In 1994 your government investigation cleared three FDA officials

accused of conflict of interest in the approval of rBST. They were

Margaret Miller, Suzanne Sechen and Michael Taylor. Miller, a former

Monsanto lab supervisor, became director of the FDA division that was

involved in the technical review of the Monsanto drug. Taylor, who

served as the FDA's deputy commissioner for policy from 1991 to 1994,

represented Monsanto as a partner at the law firm of King &

Spalding. Sechen, the primary reviewer for the rBST had not worked

for Monsanto but did research for a Cornell University scientist who

did some consulting work for Monsanto. When David Kessler discovered

Miller's prior Monsanto connection he ordered an investigation into

whether Miller's conduct constituted a conflict of interest. The

internal investigation found that Miller's participation in general

rBST matters " does raise questions " but that she did not violate the

government's standard of conduct. What do you call " standard of

conduct " ? This woman goes to the FDA to be involved with the

technical review of rBST so it can be approved!!!!

 

Congressman Bernard Sanders' aide, Anthony Pollina said, " When you

read it carefully, as we have, you see at least 11 violations of the

rules that are clearly there. " In a statement, Sanders said the

report showed problems with FDA leadership: " The FDA allowed

cooperative influence to run rampant " in its approval of the

drug. It was more than that, where the evidence was so very clear,

the GAO did not do its job and cleared these people. There had to be

industry influence. How could anyone look at these facts starring

you in the face, and make a decision which is obviously contrary to

the truth. It's like saying a band of bandits broke into a bank and

stole the money, but that's okay, their standard of conduct was good

because they said please when they took the money.

 

First of all, Michael Taylor is a Monsanto attorney. That itself is

a conflict of interest without even doing an investigation. Nobody

could say it better than Jeffrey Smith in the article below.

 

What does Taylor do? He writes reports and makes decisions that

will benefit Monsanto and industry and uses his influence where its

necessary. As an example, he wrote " The De Minimis Interpretation

of the Delaney Clause: Legal and Policy Rationale, 7 Journal of the

American College of Toxicology 529-37. The Delaney Clause was

written to protect the public and forbids allowing anything in food

that you know will cause cancer. Who would want to minimize a clause

that protects the public? Monsanto would. At the time this was

written they had bought Searle and owned NutraSweet (aspartame, E951,

Equal, Spoonful, Benevia, etc.). Aspartame violates the Delaney

Clause. Here is the FDA's own toxicologist admitting it to Congress:

 

On August 1, l985 the FDA's own 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).

 

Fortunately Delaney still

lives: http://www.wnho.net/delaney_lives.htm Aspartame also violates

adulteration laws and as such violates Interstate Commerce because

you aren't allowed to ship something for sale that is adulterated.

http://www.mpwhi.com/open_letter_dick_adamson.htm In fact, the law is

that additives must be inert or non-reactive. Since aspartame

triggers 92 symptoms including death by the FDA's own report its not

inert. Aspartame in reality is an addictive excitoneurotoxic,

genetically engineered, carcinogenic drug that interacts with other

drugs and vaccines because of damage to the mitochondria.

 

The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

www.sunsentpress.com, by H. J. Roberts, M.D., is over 1000 pages of

dangerous symptoms, neurodegenerative diseases, tumors and cancer

triggered by this chemical poison. We now have a global plague with

people sick and dying from aspartame disease, its own medical text on

the mechanisms by which it causes disease and reactions, aspartame

detoxification centers, an Aspartame Toxicity Center,

www.holisticmed.com/aspartame, and chapters of Mission Possible all

over the globe warning consumers off this deadly chemical poison.

 

The GAO was suppose to investigate aspartame approval but let the

people down. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and

he said he would call in his markers to get aspartame on the market

even though the FDA had revoked the petition for

approval. http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc Reagan had said he

would nominate Rumsfeld for Vice President and instead nominated

Bush, so owed him a favor. Indeed, Reagan paid. He had Mary Frances

Wright from the Reagan Transition team call FDA Commissioner, Dr.

Jere Goyan at 3:00 AM, and ask for his resignation, as he would

have signed the revoked petition into

law. http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_about_jere_goyan.pdf He appointed

Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes to do the deadly deed but knew it would take at

least 30 days to get him there. So, he wrote an executive order

making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame until Hayes

got there. Hayes over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and went to work

for the PR Agency of the manufacturer at $1000.00 a day on a ten year

contact. What a reward. That's what he sold his soul for and

millions have perished because of it.

 

Check out these reports: UPI story about Rumsfeld and his

markers: http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_rumsfield_calls_in_his_markers.pdf

Scientists could not recommend

approval: http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_nutrasweet_questions_swirl.pdf

 

Aspartame is even an abortifacient and triggers birth defects and

mental retardation. The formaldehyde converted from the free methyl

alcohol embalms living tissue and damages

DNA. http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf When you

damage DNA you can destroy humanity. It triggers neurodegenerative

diseases and is a multipotential carcinogen.

 

It says in the GAO Report " We interviewed Dr. Hayes and Mr. Gardner

on their postemployment activities relating to their contacts with

FDA officials on aspartame and discussed with them specific issues

relating to their involvement with the approval of aspartame. " Some

articles say Dr. Hayes was never at Burson Marsteller for more than

15 days. Did it not occur to the GAO that getting $1000.00 a day for

ten years from the PR firm of the manufacturer was a pay-off for

over-ruling the Board of Inquiry? The GAO just had to read the

facts. There is even a movie about the approval called Sweet Misery:

A Poisoned World. See James Turner, Atty, explain how Rumsfeld got

aspartame on the market: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

 

Stuart Pape who you investigated use to head the National Soft Drink

Association and then the National Yogurt Association and is behind

getting the FDA to allow this deadly poison in yogurt

unlabeled. This is against the law because of the requirement of

the PKU warning. Now they want aspartame unlabeled in all dairy

products. Today people are simply dropping dead from aspartame

sudden cardiac death. Some years ago two Parliamentarians actually

petitioned WHO to track and label sudden death a syndrome so they

could find out why so many people are dropping dead for no apparent

reason. Here are two reports on the subject by two world renowned

experts, Dr. H. J. Roberts and neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.

 

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm and

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_and_arrhythmias.htm

 

In a letter from David Baine, Associate Director of GAO on July 22,

1986 to Senator Howard Metzenbaum it says: " We plan to continue

reviewing the FDA aspartame approval process and other matters

identified in your request. " So why didn't the GAO continue to

investigate? How black and white do have the facts have to be? A

group of 7th graders would understand the political chicanery of Don

Rumsfeld getting aspartame on the market, and every player's

part. You can google millions of pages on aspartame. It's even in

books like, " Rumsfeld, His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy " by

Andrew Cockburn. TV exposes have released the information to the

world. What is there not to know about the manufacturer of aspartame

having their defense team hire the US Prosecutors who were asked to

indict Searle. The FDA doesn't even need a revolving door anymore,

they can build a bridge to take care of the traffic.

 

I've lectured in several countries and I can tell you the sick and

dying from aspartame is everywhere. Proof? I've been taking the

case histories on aspartame for 18 years. If someone reacts and

doesn't know the culprit, he goes to allergist. The allergist has a

sure proof way of finding the product. They call it the add back

diet. They keep taking products out of the diet until the symptoms

stop. Then they add it back and if the symptoms recur they know that

is the culprit. The FDA on aspartame list 92 documented symptoms in

their report. For instance, seizures are listed 5 times. You get

someone using aspartame and having seizures to abstain, and what do

you know the seizures usually stop. Aspartame interacts with

anti-seizure medication, usually the drugs do not work at all.

 

The movie, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, was produced by Cori

Brackett who was diagnosed with MS and had one of the largest

lesions. She was in a wheelchair and could barely walk or talk. She

had a hard time getting off of it but when she did she walked out of

her wheelchair and 8 months later her lesion all but

disappeared. The cases never stop coming in on aspartame MS. In

fact, the last case came in 5 minutes ago.

 

" <Bettym19

X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jul 2009

 

Hi Betty - I was diagnosed with MS 3 years ago. I have had symptoms

here and there. Recently my left leg is about as numb as one can get

- my neurologist can find NOTHING wrong with me. I am an avid Diet

Coke drinker. My coworker shared an article about aspartame with me

today - and bought me a water to drink instead. I found your

information on the internet and thought I would write to you. Is

this true? I see both sides being debated. If I stop drinking diet

drinks - how long does before the symptoms go away? Thanks for the help!

 

Kelli

Reliability Engineer "

 

Check back after we get her off aspartame in about 60

days. Aspartame Disease can mimic or precipitate the disease. It

has been proven over and over again. Read this case in the paper

below where a woman proved her MS was due to aspartame to her

neurologist by getting back on it

again. http://www.mpwhi.com/new_report_at_neurology_conference.htm

This is how easy it is to prove what aspartame triggers.

 

Some years ago an organic market gave out brochures on aspartame

called " Killer Kola " . The owner of the market said after about 60

days people woke up from problems they had been going to doctors

about for years. Those crippled by aspartame fibromyalgia could walk

again, one who had lost her sight due to the free methyl alcohol in

aspartame had her vision return. All kinds of medical problems

disappeared, and there were thousands who called, faxed or came into

the store. This is why the aspartame industry will do anything to

keep it from being banned. They know people will wake up from all

types of diseases and symptoms and will know what poisoned them.

 

As neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. said in a lecture, " The

reactions from aspartame are not allergic but toxic like arsenic and

cyanide. " Dr. James Bowen who has Lou Gehrigs from aspartame wrote

the FDA over two decades ago telling them aspartame is mass

poisoning of the American public and more than 70+ countries of the world.

 

It's an open and shut case no matter how you look at it, and

Monsanto's Michael Taylor is back at FDA.

 

Disability and death are not acceptable costs of business. When

Arthur Hayes became FDA Commissioner to over-rule the Board of

Inquiry the FDA was no longer an adversary of industry. It became

known as the new FDA: http://www.mpwhi.com/the_new_fda.htm

 

Big Pharma has raised the prices of drugs to " gouge " . Industry

influence is everywhere and aspartame manufacturers fund professional

organizations and front groups to make sure they are defended and to

push their poison. What the public gets is propaganda that has been

shown to be wrong for a quarter of a century. Doctors' hands are

tied because they have no idea an " additive " is causing these

problems. They know additives are suppose to be inert. They don't

question drug interaction because they don't know aspartame is a

neurotoxic drug.

 

Now there is the Swine Flu vaccine so vaccine makers can make

billions and the public gets disability and death. The patent for

the Swine Flu is 4 years old showing how long this pandemic has been

in the making.

Scare tactics are inexcusable. They want to vaccinate pregnant women

first. Today neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., said: " Previous

studies of flu viruses found that the danger to the unborn is not

from the virus, but from the cytokine immune reaction to the

virus--that is the mother's immune reaction to the virus. What this

means is that pregnant women who take this vaccine (especially since

it is to be a two to three part vaccine) will have the same immune

effects and may dramatically increase the mother's risk of having a

child with autism or schizophrenia. This is accepted in the medial

literature and have been done repeatedly in animals exposed to

vaccine during pregnancy. We could see a real disaster with this

vaccine program. Mothers should be warned. Remember, there is no

evidence that the

vaccine will protect anyone from the virus. "

 

Industry controls the media as well so we read articles that can

terrify pregnant women into thinking they should get vaccinated, when

it can only harm the unborn. The FDA is so loyal to Big

Pharma there was an article that if you told what you could take

that is natural for the flu they would seize the product. The FDA

(Fatal Drugs Allowed} should be changed to the Food and Death Association.

 

If all this industry influence is not enough to endanger the planet,

now they are trying to get through health reform which ought to be

called death reform. Such things as having consultations every five

years so seniors can be told how to end their life is enough to make

you vomit. Also denying medical care to the elderly and letting this

money be used for funding. Congress better read this bill because

the public is outraged.

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Whatever happened to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

 

I'm sending a copy of this to my Senator and Congressman and hope

everyone who reads it will do the same. Then they can get in touch

with the GAO. I'm writing merely to give you " all " the facts. The

GAO said in its original report on the aspartame investigation they

not have the scientific expertise to comment on safety but things

were done properly. If they had been the GAO wouldn't have been

asked to investigate in the first place. Read the FDA audit,

the Bressler Report http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=56 Does this

sound like Searle did everything the way they were suppose to? Plus

two mouse studies were so bad when the report was typed the FDA left

them out as well as left Dr. Thomas Xavier Collins name off the

audit. He was part of the team. Dr. John Olney was so concerned

about the studies that he insisted studies be done in his lab so he

could oversee them. Sure enough they showed brain damage so he

thought aspartame would never be approved. He was unaware Searle did

not give FDA the results. Almost 100% of independent studies show

the problems aspartame causes. Dr. Ralph Walton did the research on

scientific peer reviewed studies and funding.

It's obvious that to this day aspartame research funded or controlled

by the manufacturers cannot be trusted. They couldn't get studies to

show safety in original studies so they couldn't do it today

either. On request we can show you how the studies are flawed that

come from industry. When Dr. Walton himself did an independent study

Monsanto refused to even sell him the aspartame because they knew

they couldn't control it. Sure enough the reactions were so bad, and

the administrator lost sight in one eye from a retinal detachment,

that the institution stopped the study.

 

Just reviewing all the chicanery is enough for anyone to know

aspartame was approved by politics and not science. As an example,

the FDA failed to challenge the manufacturer's contact with

Universities Associated for Research and Education in Pathology

(UAREP). This private group was engaged to determine the factual

accuracy of prior aspartame studies - but with stipulation that UAREP

" shall not express an opinion " regarding either the design or safety

significance of these studies, nor make recommendations about the

safety of aspartame for human use! Could GAO not see that Searle had

sworn them to silence. What they got for not speaking out was a half

a million dollars. There are pages of outrageous dealings like these

facts in Dr. H. J. Roberts books.

 

When the GAO reported on its two year investigation of aspartame

during July 1987 they stated that more than half of the scientists

surveyed were concerned about the neurological reactions and other

potential adverse effects of aspartame products in children. Forty

per cent called for further research, 32 per cent sought new warnings

and 15 per cent suggested a total ban.

 

Today a large part of the population is chemically hypersensitive

because they used aspartame which causes polychemical sensitivity

syndrome. Dr. H. J. Roberts who wrote the medical text on Aspartame

Disease testified before Congress over two decades ago and today is

still writing the FDA about this deadly chemical poison:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Dr-H-J-Roberts-Internis-by-H-J-Roberts-M-D-0907\

23-933.html

Aspartame victims react to genetically engineered foods and

Monsanto's attorney is working for the FDA who is suppose to regulate

them. Why didn't the GAO see anything wrong with it when Taylor was

sent to FDA with Miller to get Monsanto's RBST approved before?

 

No one will ever forget FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross' last

words to Congress: " 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). " Last time you found nothing

wrong with six former HHS employees being involved in Aspartame's

approval. Michael Taylor is back and this time Congress should get

involved because its time for the people to get help, not industry.

Enough is enough. Here is the whole aspartame

story: http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_cynthia_oshita.htm Read more

below from Jeffrey Smith.

 

The GAO's non-action has let the people down over and over. The

pharmaceutical industry has gotten away with murder, so now we have a

fascist government. I'm asking my Senator and Congressman to ask you

to investigate again and because this is an open letter I'm hoping

others will do the same thing. The people don't need an FDA run by

Monsanto, they need an agency that is concerned with the welfare of

the public, and safe food and drugs. Today even prescription drugs

are full of aspartame interacting so Big Pharma can sell more drugs

and more people can die.

 

The FDA continues to operate above the law. A Citizens Petition for

ban is required to be answered in 180 days according to FDA law. The

FDA has had my petition for over 7 years and continues to ignore

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

required to be answered in a week or ten days. It was filed over a

year ago. They have ignored this as well. Who is left to protect

the public when the FDA continues to violate the law?

 

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International (Warning the world off aspartame)

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

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

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

CC: Senator Saxby Chambliss, Senator Johnny Isakson and Rep Tom Price

 

 

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>The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and

>death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety

>czar. This is no joke.

>

>Heres the back story.

>

>When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the

>most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply-the

>introduction of genetically modified (GM)

>foods-<http://biointegrity.org/list.html>secret documents now reveal

>that the experts were VERY concerned. Memo after memo described

>toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect

>allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried Serious

>health hazards, and required careful, long-term research, including

>human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

>could be safely released into the food supply.

>

>But the biotech industry had rigged the game so that neither science

>nor scientists would stand in their way. They had placed their own

>man in charge of FDA policy and he wasnt going to be swayed by

>feeble arguments related to food safety. No, he was going to do what

>corporations had done for decades to get past these types of pesky

>concerns. He was going to lie.

>

>Dangerous Food Safety Lies

>

>When the FDA was constructing their GMO policy in 1991-2, their

>scientists were clear that gene-sliced foods were significantly

>different and could lead to

><http://biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/01/view2.html>different risks than

>conventional foods. But

><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/obamas-team-includes-dang_b_147188\

..html>official

>policy declared the opposite, claiming that the FDA knew nothing of

>significant differences, and declared GMOs substantially equivalent.

>

>This fiction became the rationale for allowing GM foods on the

>market without any required safety studies whatsoever! The

>determination of whether GM foods were safe to eat was placed

>entirely in the hands of the companies that made them-companies like

>Monsanto, which told us that the PCBs, DDT, and Agent Orange were safe.

>

>GMOs were rushed onto our plates in 1996. Over the next nine years,

><http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5050S920090106?sp=true%20wa\

s%207%25>multiple

>chronic illnesses in the US nearly doubled-from 7% to 13%.

><http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/ed584ff1c2e1162a852575fc00536790?Op\

enDocument>Allergy-related

>emergency room visits doubled between 1997 and 2002 while food

>allergies, especially among children, skyrocketed. We also witnessed

>a dramatic rise in asthma, autism, obesity, diabetes, digestive

>disorders, and certain cancers.

>

>In January of this year, Dr. P. M. Bhargava, one of the worlds top

>biologists, told me that after reviewing 600 scientific journals, he

>concluded that the GM foods in the US are largely responsible for

>the increase in many serious diseases.

>

>In May, the <http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html>American Academy

>of Environmental Medicine concluded that animal studies have

>demonstrated a

><http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=2989>causal

>relationship between GM foods and infertility, accelerated aging,

>dysfunctional insulin regulation, changes in major organs and the

>gastrointestinal system, and immune problems such as asthma,

>allergies, and inflammation

>

>In July, a <http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0438.htm>report by eight

>international experts determined that the flimsy and superficial

>evaluations of GMOs by both regulators and GM companies

><http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11303-re-study-criticises-t\

esting-on-gmos>systematically

>overlook the side effects and significantly underestimate the

>initial signs of diseases like cancer and diseases of the hormonal,

>immune, nervous and reproductive systems, among others.

>

>The Fox Guarding the Chickens

>

>If GMOs are indeed responsible for massive sickness and death, then

>the individual who oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their

>introduction holds a uniquely infamous role in human history. That

>person is Michael Taylor. He had been Monsantos attorney before

>becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsantos

>Vice President and chief lobbyist.

>

>This month Michael Taylor became the senior advisor to the

>commissioner of the FDA. He is now Americas food safety czar. What

>have we done?

>

>The Milk Man Cometh

>

>While Taylor was at the FDA in the early 90s, he also oversaw the

>policy regarding Monsantos genetically engineered

><http://yourmilkondrugs.com/>bovine growth hormone

>(rbGH/rbST)-injected into cows to increase milk supply.

>

>The milk from injected cows has more pus, more antibiotics, more

>bovine growth hormone, and most importantly, more insulin-like

>growth factor 1 (IGF-1). IGF-1 is a huge risk factor for common

>cancers and its high levels in this drugged milk is why so many

><http://action.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Oregon_rBGHFactSheetsandDownloa\

ds>medical

>organizations and

><http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v & q=cache:063SblHxCSUJ:www.themilkweed.com/Feat\

ure_06_July.pdf+healthcare+without+harm+rbgh & hl=en & gl=us>hospitals

>have taken stands against rbGH. A former Monsanto scientist told me

>that when three of his Monsanto colleagues evaluated rbGH safety and

>discovered the elevated IGF-1 levels, even they refused to drink any

>more milk-unless it was organic and therefore untreated.

>

>Government scientists from Canada

><http://www.nfu.ca/gapsreport.html>evaluated the FDAs approval of

>rbGH and concluded that it was a dangerous facade. The drug was

>banned in Canada, as well as Europe, Japan, Australia and New

>Zealand. But it was approved in the US while Michael Taylor was in

>charge. His drugged milk might have caused a significant rise in US

>cancer rates. Additional

><http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/health/30twin.html>published

>evidence also implicates rbGH in the high rate of fraternal twins in the US.

>

>Taylor also determined that milk from injected cows did not require

>any special labeling. And as a gift to his future employer Monsanto,

>he wrote a white paper suggesting that if companies ever had the

>audacity to label their products as not using rbGH, they should also

>include a disclaimer stating that according to the FDA, there is no

>difference between milk from treated and untreated cows.

>

>Taylors disclaimer was also a lie. Monsantos own studies and FDA

>scientists officially acknowledged differences in the drugged milk.

>No matter. Monsanto used Taylors white paper as the basis to

>successfully sue dairies that labeled their products as rbGH-free.

>

>Will Monsantos Wolff Also Guard the Chickens?

>

>As consumers learned that rbGH was dangerous, they refused to buy

>the milk. To keep their customers, a tidal wave of companies has

>publicly committed to not use the drug and to label their products

>as such. Monsanto tried unsuccessfully to convince the FDA and FTC

>to make it illegal for dairies to make rbGH-free claims, so they

>went to their special friend in Pennsylvania-Dennis Wolff. As state

>Secretary of Agriculture, Wolff unilaterally declared that labeling

>products rbGH-free was illegal, and that all such labels must be

>removed from shelves statewide. This would, of course, eliminate the

>label from all national brands, as they couldnt afford to create

>separate packaging for just one state.

>

>Fortunately, consumer demand forced Pennsylvanias Governor Ed

>Rendell to step in and stop Wolffs madness. But Rendell allowed

>Wolff to take a compromised position that now requires rbGH-free

>claims to also be accompanied by Taylors FDA disclaimer on the package.

>

>President Obama is considering Dennis Wolff for the top food safety

>post at the USDA. Yikes!

>

><http://www.grist.org/article/usda-may-get-dennis-wolff-for-food-safety-post-be\

cause-ed-rendell-doesnt-wa/>Rumor

>has it that the reason why Pennsylvanias governor is supporting

>Wolffs appointment is to get him out of the state-after he screwed

>up so badly with the rbGH decision. Oh great, governor. Thanks.

>

>Ohio Governor Gets Taylor-itus

>

>Ohio not only followed Pennsylvanias lead by requiring Taylors FDA

>disclaimer on packaging, they went a step further. They declared

>that dairies must place that disclaimer on the same panel where

>rbGH-free claims are made, and even dictated the font size. This

>would force national brands to re-design their labels and may

>ultimately dissuade them from making rbGH-free claims at all. The

>Organic Trade Association and the International Dairy Foods

>Association filed a lawsuit against Ohio. Although they lost the

>first court battle, upon appeal, the judge ordered a mediation

>session that takes place today (July 23, 2009). Thousands of Ohio

>citizens have flooded Governor Stricklands office with urgent

>requests to withdraw the states anti-consumer labeling requirements.

>

>Perhaps the governor has an ulterior motive for pushing his new

>rules. If he goes ahead with his labeling plans, he might end up

>with a top appointment in the Obama administration.

>

>

>

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>Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, which

>presents 65 risks in easy-to-read two-page spreads. His first book,

>Seeds of Deception, is the top rated and #1 selling book on GM foods

>in the world. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for

>Responsible Technology www.responsibletechnology.org, which is

>spearheading the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America. Go to

>www.responsibletechnology.org to learn more about how to avoid GM foods.

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