PLANET OF THE CHIMPS #2

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

How Killer Aspartame Became Legal - The Timeline

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They even changed the legal name of "killer" Aspartame to AMINO SWEET to confuse the consumers






In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it "might induce brain tumors."

The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (currently the Secretary of Defense) vow to "call in his markers," to get it approved.

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Chimp at 8:42 AM
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