Special purpose acquisition company
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Aspartames sweet dreams who are we to disagree
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Aspartame's Sweet Dreams; Who Are We to Disagree?
Written by Jeanne Roberts
Thursday, 14 February 2008 11:38
Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal, NatraTaste and Canderel, was discovered in 1965 by G.D. Searle Co., and originally used to treat ulcers.
It is now found in almost every dietetic or low-calorie food and beverage on the market. Used by such companies as Bayer, Con Agra Foods, Dannon, Smucker, Kellogg, Wrigley, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods (Crystal Light), Conopco (Slim-Fast), Coke, Pfizer, Wal-Mart and Wyeth, aspartame can even be found in children's vitamins.
Monsanto (MON - $116.68 ), which bought Searle in 1985, continues to support Searle’s original claims that aspartame is harmless. In 1999, Monsanto stated:
It is physiologically impossible for aspartame to cause brain tumors because it never enters the bloodstream and thus cannot travel to essential organs, including the brain.
Aspartame is made by the NutraSweet Company – a former division of Monsanto’s Life Sciences department. NutraSweet was sold to J.W. Childs Equity Partners II L.P. on May 25, 2000, an arrangement presumably designed to keep lawsuits out of the courts and away from Monsanto’s doors.
JW Childs jumps on SPAC bandwagon (JW owned by Monsanto)
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Buyout Firm J.W. Childs Jumps on SPAC Bandwagon
March 25, 2008, 7:08 am
A few private-equity managers are giving the public investing world a second thought thanks to SPACs.
SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, are shell entities with a sole purpose in life: Finding a business to acquire. They have become wildly popular in the last year or so, accounting for a big portion of the initial public offerings in the United States. Big investors such as Ronald Perelman, Thomas Hicks and Nelson Peltz have sponsored SPACs that went public or are planning to do so.
One of the latest: A $200 million I.P.O. proposed by the Boston private-equity firm J.W. Childs Associates.
Aspartame.Mercola.com
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Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.
Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. It was discovered by accident in 1965 when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer drug.
Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 26, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr John W. Olney and Consumer attorney James Turner in August 1974 as well as investigations of G.D. Searle's research practices caused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put approval of aspartame on hold (December 5, 1974). In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.
The Truth About Aspartame Toxicity & Nancy Markle
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Aspartame (NutraSweet) Toxicity Information Center
A "World Environmental Conference" email has been working its way around the Internet. The World Environmental Conference did occur with an EPA representative speaking and the discussion turning to aspartame toxicity. However, the summary was not written by Nancy Markle. Because there are a few scientific inaccuracies in the email, Monsanto/NutraSweet may attempt to create the image that aspartame poisoning is a hoax and that the email is a hoax. As independent researchers know, this is definately not the case.
Norma A. Vera
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Norma A. Vera
P.O. Box 660801
Miami Springs, FL 33266
Thursday, May 8, 1997
Mrs. Betty Martini
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Email: bettym19@mindspring.com
Betty,
During 1984 I was had a Medical Secretarial Office. In order
to supplement my income and acquire new business contacts I
was working temporary placements for Advantage Personnel
Services located at that time at 7861 Bird Road, Miami, Florida
33155 with telephone (305) 261-4561. That same year I was
placed for at least four months at the offices of G. D. Searle
International at approximately 2500-2700 Douglas Rd. (SW 37th
Avenue) in Coral Gables. After a couple of weeks doing general
secretarial work I was asked to assist a Dr. Ortega with some
urological translations that needed to be reviewed. We (Dr.
Ortega and I) worked together correcting these translations for
a while. When these were completed, he told me they were
expecting another set of translations and he wanted me to
assist with these as well.
I recall we waited for a few weeks because the translations
were coming from Argentina and Mexico. When the aspartame
translations arrived, Dr. Ortega and I worked constantly for hours
in his office trying to make sense of what had been translated.
He finally decided to send for the finally "double blind" studies
and translate them directly from the Spanish originals. To my
best recollection, these studies had been conducted in
depressed sections of Mexico, Argentina and a third country
which I believe to have been Guatemala.
Norma A. Vera
Sworn to and subscribed before me Jean Oliver, Notary Public of the State
of Florida, County of Dade this 8th day of May, l997
Official Notary Seal, Jean Oliver, Notary Public State of Florida My
Commission expires May 23, l997
Aspartame netreach.net
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ASPARTAME???
A Tasty Killer?
An alarming letter on Aspartame (Nutrisweet(tm), Equal(tm), etc.)
These files from DORway website.
gross.txt Memo ('76), two letters ('87) to Senator Metzenbaum on aspartame testing/results that zero in on the brain-tumor issue written by FDA Dr. Gross.
bressler.txt The entire 76 page "Bressler" report that verifies the brain-tumor aspect, and adds uterine, mammary and ovarian tumors (along with shrunken testes) by FDA's Dr. Jerome Bressler.
badnews.txt The list of most of the 92 FDA acknowledged symptoms of aspartame poisoning, with notes and comments by researcher Mark Gold.
nveraltr.txt Sworn letter by a translator on Searle's South American test results on HUMANS!
97recall.txt Text of aspartame recall letter to FDA Dr. Friedman April 1997 (never answered)
fullrep.txt Full text of standard Email response for more information on aspartame
pamphlet.txt Text for aspartame information pamphlet (tri-fold)
asprref.txt Text for references pamphlet companion to the forgoing
referenc.txt References laid out for a tri-fold pamphlet
jcohen.txt Full text of Jennifer Cohen science report on diet coke
offaspr.txt Mark Gold (researcher) excellent rebuff of IFIC aspartame disinformation
fdaman.txt Former FDA Investigator A. M. Evangelisia letter to "Creative Loafing Magazine" (1995)
newfda.txt Mission Possible protest over selecting Monsanto employee to head the FDA
sweet.txt The list of not-good sweeteners!
damage.txt Short text file on aspartame damage and attitudes.
autores.txt Full list of Mission Possible auto-responder files, and how to request them.
possible.txt Mission Possible files on DORway (some names changed/new files)
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dorway.com
Note: This is in three parts:
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Dr. Gross 1976 DHHS/FDA memo to Dr. Sharp on irregular proposal
Dr. Gross 1987 Oct. Letter (reply) to Senator Metzenbaum
Dr. Gross 1987 Nov. Letter (follow-up) to Senator Metzenbaum
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(Note: This memo is on DHHS stationary)
To : Mr. Carl Sharp Date: Nov. the 4th, 1976
From : M. Adrian Gross
Subject : Draft Agreement for Validation of Searle Aspartame Studies
The following are some comments which you requested on the document
under reference as well as on the cover memorandum Wylie/Gardner dated
November 1, 1976.
I must confess that I became deeply disturbed on reading this effort -
last July 14th in a telephone conversation I had with Commissioner
Schmidt during which I stated my reservations about this entire plan, he
assured me that whatever is being contemplated in this area will be
undertaken in full knowledge of and consultation with some of us who
were intimately involved with the Searle investigations and that whatever
is finally accepted will be of such nature as not to jeopardize or
undermine all of our previous work. Given this kind of background I
suffered a rude shock by the proposed plan in front of us at this time.
M. Adrian Gross
HFD-108
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(Note: This letter is on EPA Stationary)
Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, (Dated 30 October, 1987)
United States Senate,
140 Russell Senate Office Building,
Washington, DC, 20510
Dear Senator Metzenbaum,
The following is in response to a request for comments addressed to
me by Mr. James C. Wagoner of your Office in reference to the safety of
the artificial sweetener aspartame, known commercially as Nutrasweet.
As you may know, during my service with the FDA from 1964 to 1979 I
participated along with others in the extensive investigation of the
quality of experimental studies carried out by or for the G.D. Searle &
Co. of Skokie, Ill. Inasmuch as I had participated both in the "on-site"
investigations as G.D. Searle & Co., as well as in the evaluation of the
findings that emerged, my signature along with those of others appears on
the final report of that FDA investigations (known also as the Searle Task
Force Report) which was dated March the 24th, 1976.
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Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, (Dated 3 November, 1987)
United States Senate,
140 Russell Senate Office Building,
Washington, DC, 20510
Dear Senator Metzenbaum,
The following represents a continuation of my letter to you of last
week, October the 30th, 1987. In that letter I discussed the many serious
problems with the quality or reliability of the experimental studies with
aspartame carried out by or for G.D. Searle & Co.; I noted there that in
1976, the FDA Commissioner at that time, Dr. Alexander Schmidt, speaking
for the FDA as an agency, publicly stated that he agreed with a set of
conclusions, the first of which was that the FDA had no basis for reliance
on the quality of studies generated by or for that firm.
Once such a determination is made at the highest level of the FDA, it
seems bizarre, to say the least, that essentially the same set of studies
could provide a foundation for the subsequent decision that those studies in
fact had demonstrated the safety of aspartame with "reasonable certainty"
as required the Food Additive Amendment of the Federal Food, Drugs, and
Cosmetics Act. As the television commercials for Weyerheauser, the
"tree-growing company", keep telling us:- "once the eagles are gone, they
are gone."
Aspartame the FDA NutraSweet
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(NaturalNews) In December of 1965, while James Schlatter, a chemist for G.D. Searle & Company, was working on an anti-ulcer drug candidate he accidentally discovered aspartame. He was recrystallizing aspartame from ethanol when the mixture spilled onto the outside of the flask he was using. Some of the powder landed on his fingers. Schlatter discovered the sweet taste of aspartame when he absent-mindedly licked his finger later. He realized that the sweet taste must have been the aspartame.
G.D. Searle approached Dr. Harry Waisman (Biochemist, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the University of Wisconsin's Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Laboratory of Mental Retardation Research, and a well-known expert in phenylalanine toxicity) in 1970 to research the effects of aspartame on primates. The study began on January 15, 1970 and ended in late April, 1971. Dr. Waisman died unexpectedly in March, of 1971.
Diet Coke sweetener called dangerous poison
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Diet Coke Sweetener Called Dangerous Poison
Feb 18th, 2010 | By Carol Guilford | Category: Featured Articles
This article is reprinted from the September, 1999 edition of Your Jerusalem.
Aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke as well as in a large variety of other products, has been called “a dangerous poison” by Mission Possible, a grassroots organization based out of Los Angeles, California, dedicated to getting the word out on the synthetic sugar substitute. Aspartame, which is marketed in the United States under the brand names NutraSweet and Equal, has the dubious distinction of generating the longest list ever of U.S. FDA complaints against a product. The list of complaints includes headaches, dizziness, mood swings, nausea, abdominal pains, change in vision, diarrhea, seizures and convulsions, memory loss, chronic fatigue, sleep problems, changes in heart rate, numbness, local swelling, difficulty in breathing, disruption of menstrual patterns, joint and bone pain, and approximately 75 other symptoms including, in some rare cases, grand mal seizures, difficulty with pregnancy and even death. At the very least, most people will report headaches or dizziness after drinking soft drinks containing aspartame. Besides symptoms reported by ordinary citizens, studies dating as far back as 1971 have shown the link between aspartame (NutraSweet) and breast tumors as well as grand mal seizures.
