Dear Ajinomoto:

You say your goal is to provide objective information about aspartame
and that from time to time it has been the focus of unfounded criticism.
Let's get this straight from the beginning, aspartame has been the focus
of criticism for the 20 years it has been on the market as well as for
the 16 years that the FDA was able to prevent its approval.

You say its your intention to let science speak for itself, so let's do
just that.  First of all, the FDA not only said it wasn't safe from the
beginning but they also wanted Searle indicted.  We all understand the
power of the pharmaceutical company, even to the point that both U.S.
Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon hired on with the defense
team, Sidley and Austin, and the statute of limitations expired.

If a product is safe you don't have to use psychomanipulation to get it
approved.  An internal G. D. Searle memo layed out the strategy.
(Helling 1970):  We have this on http://www.dorway.com/secrets.html
labeled as Secret Trade Info, and it was released during Congressional
Hearings.  Here is an excerpt:

"At this meeting (with FDA officials), the basic philosophy of our
approach to food and drugs should be to try to get them to say "yes," to
rank the things that we are going to ask for so we are putting first
those questions we would like to get a "yes" to, even if we have to
throw some in that have no significance to us, other than putting them
in a yes saying habit.

We must create affirmative atmosphere in our dealing with them.  It
would help if we can get them to get their people involved to do us any
such favors.  This would also help bring them into subconscious spirit
of participation."

Just in case you're interested, Ajinomoto, you don't have to do this to
get safe products approved.  You simply have to submit honest studies.
I was particularly interested in the last paragraph discussing DKP
(diketopiperazine).  Dr. John Olney, a world famous neuroscientist, who
founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity noticed that
DKP, when nitrosated in the gut, produced a compound which was similar
to N-nitrosourea, a powerful brain tumor causing chemical.
Diketopiperazine is literally a cyclization of the entire aspartame
molecule.  And it arises from one of the carboxyl groups of the aspartic
acid molecule reacting with the amine group of the phenylalanine
molecule which is the way the amino acids always react with each other .
Peptide bonds.  Here is what Herbert Helling of Searle said:

"With the spoon-for-spoon, we have no way of estimating maximum likely
abuse and hence need to utilize data based on almost complete conversion
to DKP.  If we include this use in the original FAP, we stand a good
chance of ending up with nothing in the short run and nothing in the
long run whereas the other approach would give us something in the short
run and, quite likely as much as we would ever get in the long run.  I
think it becomes very important for us to start to get our sweetener
into commercial channels as soon as possible to minimize the incentive
that people now have to work on other sweeteners.  Actions in the U.S.
will tend to influence the actions in other countries as well."

So here is Searle admitting they have to consider almost complete
conversion to a brain tumor agent and they don't want the FDA to know
because they won't approve it.   They could care less that humans would
develop brain tumors just like the rats.  And they did everything they
could to cover up the brain tumor issue.  Even in the FDA audit, the
Bressler Report  (on DORway) it is discussed how they would excise the
brain tumors from the rats and then put them back in the study, and when
the rats died they just resurrected them on paper.  From the FDA Task
Force Report here are just a few of the relevant findings:

a.  "Excising masses (tumors) from live animals, in some cases without
histologic examination of the masses, in others without reporting them
to the FDA."  (Schmidt l976c, page 4 of US Senate l976b).  Searle's
representatives, when caught and questioned about these actions, stated
that "these masses were in the head and neck areas and prevented the
animals from feeding."  (Buzzard 1976a)

(Martini:  Frankly, a burglar could think of a better alibi!  And just
how many brain tumors were excised that weren't caught?)

"Failure to report to the FDA all internal tumors present in the
experimental rats, e.g. polyps in the uterus, ovary neoplasms as well as
other lesions."  (Gross l987a, page 8)

b.  G. D. Searle "stored animal tissues in formaldehyde for so long that
they deteriorated."  (Gordon l987, page 496 of US Senate l987; US
Schmidt l976c, page 25, 27 of US Senate l976b)

c.  "Instead of performing autopsies on rhesus monkeys that suffered
seizures after being fed aspartame, the company had financed a new
monkey seizure study with a different methodology that showed no
problems."  (Gordon l987, page 496 of US Senate l987)

d.  "Reporting animals as unavailable for necropsy when, in fact,
records indicate that the animals were available, but Searle choose not
to purchase them."  (Schmidt l976c, page 5 of U.S. Senate l976b)

e.  "Animals which had died were sometimes recorded as being alive and
vice versa.  "These include approximately 20 instances of animals
reported as dead and then reported as having vital signs normal again at
subsequent observation periods."  (Gross l985, page S10835)

f.  "Selecting statistical procedures which used a total number of
animals as the denominator when only a portion of the animals were
examined, thus reducing the significance of adverse effects."  (Schmidt
l976c, page 4 of US Senate l976b)

g.  G. D. Searle told the FDA that 12 lots of DKP were manufactured and
tested in one study, yet only seven batches were actually made.  (Gross
l985, page S10835).

h.  "Significant deviations from the protocols of several studies were
noted which may have compromised the value of these studies .... In at
least one study, the Aspartame 52 week monkey study, the protocol was
written after the study had been initiated."  (Gross l985, page S10835)

i.  "It is significant to note that the Searle employee responsible for
reviewing most of the reproduction studies had only one year of prior
experience, working on population dynamics of cotton tail rabbits while
employed by Illinois Wildlife Service.  In order to prepare him for this
title of 'Senior Research Assistant in Teratology' (fetal damage) Searle
bought him books to read on the subject and also sent him to a meeting
of the Teratology Society.  This qualified him to submit 18 of the
initial tests to the FDA, in addition to training an assistant and 2
technicians.  He certainly must have kept them busy because Searle
claimed that 329 teratology examinations were conducted in just 2 days.
He estimated that he himself examined about 30 fetuses a day, but
officials for the Center for Food and Applied Nutrition could never
determine how that was possible."  Graves l984, page S5500,
Congressional Record l985a)

j.  "In each study investigated, poor practices, inaccuracies, and
discrepancies were noted in the antemortem phases which could compromise
the study."  (Gross l985, page S10836 of Congressional Record l985b)

k. "Presenting information to FDA in a manner likely to obscure
problems, such as editing the report of a consulting pathologist ...
Reporting one pathology report while failing to submit, or make
reference to another  usually more adverse pathology report on the same
slide."  (Schmidt l976c, page 4 - 5 of US Senate l976b)

l.  Animals were not removed from the room during the twice per month
exterminator sprayings.  (Gross l985, page S10836 of Congressional
Record l985b)

m. Often the substance being tested which was given to the animals was
not analyzed or tested for homogeneity.  "No records were found to
indicate that any treatment mixtures used in the studies were ever
tested or assayed for pesticide content ...  Running inventory records
for either treatment mixtures or the test compounds used in treatment
mixtures are not maintained."  (Gross l985, page S10836 of Congressional
Record  l985b)

n.  In the aspartame (DKP) 115 week rat study the written observations
of the pathology report was changed by the supervising pathologist, Dr.
Rudolph Stejskal even though he was not physicially present during the
autopsies and could not have verified the observations of the
pathologist who did perform the autopsies.  The pathologist who did
perform some of the autopsies had no formal training for such
procedures.  (Gross l985, page S10837 of Congressional Record l985b).

o.  "Contrary to protocol, slides were not prepared of this (unusual
lesions from the aspartame (DKP) study tissue for microscopic
examinations ..."  (Gross l985, page S10837 of Congressional Record
1985b)

p.  "In the aspartame 46 weeks hamster study, blood samples reported in
the submission to FDA as 26 week values (for certain specified animals)
were found by our investigators as being, in fact, values for different
animals which were bled at the 38th week.  Many of the animals for which
these values were reported (to the FDA) were dead at the 38th week."
(Gross l985, page S10838 of Congressional Record l985b).

"It is apparent from the report, that the Appendix portion contains all
the individual (animal) values of clinical lab data available from the
raw data file.  A selected portion of these values appears to have been
used in computing group means (which were reported to the FDA).  It is
not clear what criteria may have been used for selecting a portion of
the data or for deleting the others in computing the means (reported to
the FDA)."  (Gross l985, page S10838 of Congressional Record l985b)

r.  (There were) "clerical or arithmetic errors which resulted in
reports of fewer tumors." (Schmidt l976c, page 27 of US Senate l976b).

s.  (G. D. Searle) "delayed the reporting of alarming findings."
(Schmidt l976c, page 27 of US Senate l976b).

So you say it it your intention "to let the science speak for itself"!
Here it is Ajinomoto, all a matter of public record!!!  If you want the
science to speak for itself, how come you don't have these records on
your site?

FDA Toxicologist and Task Force member, Dr. Andrian Gross really summed
it up (Wilson l985):

"They (G. D. Searle) lied and they didn't submit the real nature of
their observations because had they done that it is more than likely
that a great number of these studies would have been rejected simply for
adequacy.  What Searle did, they took great pains to camouflage these
shortcoming of the study.  As I say filter and just present to the FDA
what they wished the FDA to know and they did other terrible things for
instance animals would develop tumors while they were under study.  Well
they would remove these tumors from the animals."

This is the kind of science that approved aspartame
(NutraSweet/Canderal/Benevia/Equal, etc.)  And there is no way to hide
it because its in the public domain.  How come you don't have the FDA
audit, the Bressler Report on your web site.  You're welcome to take it
off http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt   After all, you want the science
to speak for itself, don't you?

FDA Lead Investigator and Task Force Team Leader, Phillip Brodsky
described the l976 FDA ATask Force members as some of the most
experienced drug investigators.  He went on to state  that he had never
seen anything as bad as G. D. SEarle's studies (Graves l984; page S5499
of congressional Record l985a).

The report quoted a letter written to G. D. Searle on July 15, l975 from
its consultant in reproduction and teratology, Dr. Gregory Palmer, in
regards to a review of some of G. D. Searle's reproductive studies
submitted to the FDA (Gross l985, page S10838 of Congressional Record
l985b):

"Even following the track you did, it seems to me you have only
confounded the issue by a series of deficiencies or obvious lack of
expertise in animal management.  Because of these twin factors, all the
careful and detailed examination of fetuses, all the writing,
summarization and resummarization is of little avail because of the
shaky foundation."

This reminds me of what Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, a former FDA
toxicologist, and also member of the Task Force that investigated the
authenticity of research done by Searle to establish the safety of
aspartame, said, and that was that she believes the original aspartame
studies were "built on a foundation of sand."  (Testimony of Dr.
Jacqueline Verrett, FDA Toxicologist, before the U.S. Senate committee
on Labor and Human Resources, regarding "NutraSweet Health and Safety
Concerns,"  (November 3, l987).   She testified that flawed tests
conducted by Searle - used as the basis of FDA approval - were a
"disaster" and should have been "thrown out."  She said she believed the
studies left many unanswered questions about possible birth defects and
the safety of aspartame.  And she let it be known that the team was
instructed not to be concerned with, or comment upon, the overall
validity of the study.  She said a subsequent review discarded or
ignored the problems and deficiencies outlined by her team's original
report.  She said, "serious departures from acceptable toxicological
protocols" that her investigative team noted in the reevaluation of
these studies were also discounted.  She warned that any of the improper
practices would compromise and negate a safety study of a food additive.
Verrett concluded the data in the study was worthless, and the safety of
aspartame and its breakdown products have therefore not been determined.

She emphasized that aspartame exists in the marketplace without basic
toxicity information.  She said there are no data to assess the
interactions with DKP, excess phenylalanine, other aspartame
metabolites, additives, drugs or other chemicals.  In her testimony,
Verrett elaborated on DKP problems, including significant increases of
uterine polyps and changes in blood cholesterol.  DKP is formed when
liquids in particular are pre-sweetened with aspartame.  The production
of DKP is vulnerable to increase in temperature, and higher temperatures
produce increasing amounts of DKP.  She reminded members of the
Congressional Committee "that is why initially, aspartame was not
intended or not planned to be used in liquids because of this
decomposition ... it was decided it was too unstable to be used in hot
preparations, hot liquids and also in diet drinks."

And since you're so interested in letting science speak for itself, I
would suggest that you also put on your web site the 30 page protest by
the National Soft Drink Association which goes into detail about
decomposition of aspartame even mentioning the law that forbids putting
anything into drinks that decompose or adulterates it.  It was made part
of the Congressional Record for this reason and can be accessed on the
DORway web site.

You mention a GAO Report which, incidentally, can be accessed from the
GAO web site in full.  It speaks of holding a Public Board of Inquiry to
discuss safety issues surrounding aspartame's approval and forming a
panel to advise the Commissioner.  How come your web site doesn't
discuss the fact that this Board of Inquiry not only advised the
Commissioner not to approve aspartame but stated it had not been proven
safe and the petition is revoked.  You will find the summation of that
report on www.dorway.com and soon we will have the ENTIRE report
scanned in for the world to read.

It should be noted at this point that the FDA steadfastly refused to
approve aspartame. No Commissioner would do it.  But Searle had built a
$19 million dollar NutraSweet factory and had $9 million dollars worth
of inventory.  So they hired now Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld,
a veteran political operative, who was adept at the vulgar art of public
relations.  A house politician was precisely what Searle needed to
compensate for the damage done by independent researchers concerned
about the toxic effects of aspartame.  Rumsfeld said he would call in
his markers and get aspartame approved.  This is documented in the 8
month investigation by United Press International and in the
congressional record.

The day after President Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull
Hayes as FDA Commissioner.  Hayes was intent on getting aspartame
approved but the Board of Inquiry told him he couldn't do it because
aspartame had not been proven safe and had produced brain tumors.  So
Ajinomoto came to the rescue by telling Hayes they had done a  study and
he didn't have to worry about the brain tumor issue.  But your study
showed brain tumors as well.  Hayes acknowledged in his l981 decision
that he had only consulted a preliminary report of the Japanese
evaluation, and only skimmed it.  More serious, Hayes violated federal
law by basing approval on the test, as it had not been reviewed by the
FDA board.  He has refused to talk to the press ever since.

So Ajinomoto, why don't you really tell the world the facts, that the
FDA said not to approve aspartame, that it was not proven safe, and had
you not interfered it would not be on the market today.

As to this statement:  "Furthermore, when questions were raised about
the Searle studies, FDA had an outside group of pathologists review
crucial aspartame studies.  GAO found that throughout aspartame's
approval history, the FDA addressed safety issues raised internally and
by outside scientists and by concerned citizens."

In reality the failure to challenge the MANUFACTURER'S contract with
Universities Associated for Research and Education in Pathology (UAREP)
was a great shortcoming.  This private group was engaged to determine
the factual accuracy of prior aspartame studies - BUT with the
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!  Dr. M.
Adrian Gross also challenged the credentials of UAREP relative to its
ability to assess prior aspartame studies.

And how did it happen?  On August 4, l976, G. D. Searle representatives
met with the FDA and CONVINCED them to allow G. D. Searle to hire this
private agency, UAREP, and pay them $500,000 to "validate" 12 studies.
(Gordon l987 page 498 of US Senate l987).  A half a million dollars to
be sworn to silence!!

Also, since you tell people that aspartame does not get into the blood
we have just scanned one of the original studies used as pivotal in the
approval of this toxin on http://www.dorway.com/raoreport.pdf  This is
the 52 week oral toxicity study where 7 infant monkeys were fed
aspartame.  Five had grand mal seizures and one died.  I fail to see how
this study shows safety.  It does say that the grand mal seizures were
caused by the HIGH SERUM PHENYLALANINE LEVELS.    That's in the blood.
And if that's not significant for you, one of the pivotal studies, use a
pro-industry book, Aspartame, Physiology and Biochemistry, Marcel
Dekker, Inc., New York, L.D. Stegink and L. J. Filer, Jr. l984.  This is
significantly corporate sponsored.

Page 161:  TISSUE DISTRIBUTION OF ORALLY ADMINISTERED ISOTOPICALLY
LABELED ASPARTAME IN THE RAT Yoshimasa Matsuzawa and Yuichi O'Hara, Life
Science Laboratory, Central Research Laboratories, Ajinomoto Company,
Inc. Yokohama, Japan    As you notice, this is YOUR OWN WORK!!!

Page 162:  RESULTS:  Phenylalanine Moiety:  "The pattern of distribution
of (U-14CPhe) aspartame following its oral administration was very
similar to that of (U-14C) phenylalanine after 0.5, 2.6 and 24 hr and 7
days.  Thirty minutes after administration of these compounds, very high
levels of radioactivity were observed in the lumen of the stomach and
upper small bowel.  Significant uptake of radioactivity was observed in
the pancreas, gastrointestinal mucosa, hair follicles, salivary gland
and liver.  Radioactivity was observed in the kidney, adrenal gland,
bone marrow, spleen and eye.  Some radiolabel was localized to the
BRAIN, SPINAL CORD (emphasis added) heart, thymus, lung and testes.

As you see, its all a matter of public record.  You talk about unfounded
controversy, when in fact, there is good reason for the outrage of the
public.  Aspartame should never have been approved, it is indeed, a
chemical poison madeup of three neurotoxins.  As soon as aspartame was
put on the market consumers over-flowed the FDA with complaints.  So
many complaints that it was admitted in congressional hearings that the
FDA was actually referring people to the AIDS Hotline to get rid of
them.  Senator Orrin Hatch who was paid by Monsanto after they bought
Searle in l985 did all he could to prevent congressional hearings and
even when he couldn't stop them any longer did a hatchet job so that a
bill written by Senator Metzenbaum for the National Institutes for
Health to do independent studies on the problems being seen in the
population never got out of committee.  They had to prevent independent
studies because they would have no control over them.  And we have
documented the flawed industry research.

In l996 when Dr. John Olney made world news over the aspartame/brain
tumor issue, it was Dr. Ralph Walton who accompanied him on 60 Minutes
with peer reviewed research.  He showed that 92% of independent research
not controlled or financed by the manufacturer, peer reviewed, showed
the problems with aspartame.  And if you removed one pro-industry review
and 6 studies the FDA had something to do with, it was actually 100%.

Since aspartame was approved there have been organizations warning all
consumers off this neurotoxin.  Today Mission Possible operations exist
in 50 states and 22 countries of the world.  It's a hands around the
world humanitarian effort to alert the public of the deadly effects of
this toxin.  Nobody is paid and there is no motive except to save the
human race.

There is an Aspartame Toxicity Center and even Aspartame Detoxification
Centers to detoxify those who have consumed aspartame.  The Trocho Study
has shown without a shadow of a doubt that the formaldehyde converted
from the wood alcohol accumulates in the cells and damages DNA.  When
you damage DNA you can destroy the human race.   As Dr. James Bowen's
papers on web show, aspartame also damages the mitochondria of the cell.
Medical reports by Doctors H. J. Roberts and neurosurgeon Russell
Blaylock discuss the damage to the cardiac conduction system which can
result in sudden death.  A new medical text Aspartame Disease: An
Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.aspartameispoison.com  or
www.sunsentpress.com  has 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered
by this neurotoxin including a chapter on drug interactions.  To think
that we have a deadly chemical poison, a neurotoxic drug, a chemical
hypersensitization product marketed in food and drug in 100 countries of
the world is a crime against humanity.  The chapter on drug interactions
shows that aspartame interacts with just about every drug used to treat
the problems it triggers.

In the meantime, Monsanto in its flawed research has tried to show that
aspartame does not trigger the problems being reported such as seizures.
For instance, take their Rowen Study in l995.  16 of the 18 subjects
were taking anti-seizure medication.  The study consisted of only a
single dose of aspartame ingestion, one capsule.!!!!  Also capsule
administration of aspartame slows the absorption of methanol and may
reduce its toxicity somewhat similar to the way ingestion of food with
methanol may slightly reduce its toxicity (Posner l975).  Capsule
administration of aspartame also eliminates the quick absorption of the
excitotoxin, aspartic acid (Stegink l987).  When aspartic acid is
absorbed quickly, it can be excitotoxic (Blaylock l994, Olney l980)
especially in conjunction with formaldehyde derived from methanol.

This is sort of tantamount to giving someone a sip of Diet Coke and
saying "see, no seizure".  This is on Medline as if its was some big
deal and now Monsanto can say they have proven aspartame doesn't trigger
seizures.  In reality all it proves is this study can only apply to
people who ingest a single dose of encapsuled aspartame while taking
anti-seizure medication.  Not only is this study worthless, but key
information was not put in the abstract, namely, the fact that the
subjects were on anti-seizure medication and that the aspartame was
given in capsules.

Yet, when you have 20 years of reactions over and over again from
victims using aspartame, recorded in clinical observation by eminent
physicians the manufacturer calls the drug reactions - anecdotes.

The modus operandi of NutraSweet has always been to lie and deny and
call names.  I report these findings and you call me fear mongering.
When I lectured for the World Environmental Conference and an email made
world news, you heard such words as toxic terrorists!
http://www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html tells the whole story.

Physicians reports and books  on  the dangers of aspartame are rebutted
as they are attacked because they have the courage to alert the public
of the true facts.  These physicians are men of integrity, heros of the
world, who refuse to sell out to industry, and care more about the
health of consumers than checks from industry.  It is well known in a
court of law that for every true scientist or physician who will give
the real facts, industry can come up with a physician or scientist to
defend them and say just the opposite.

Industry funds the professional organizations and push their propaganda.
You mention the MS Foundation and Dr. David Squillacote's notice.  This
again had to do with when I lectured for the World Environmental
Conference, and if this doctor had anything to say he believed in, he
would have answered my letters.  But he couldn't rebut the facts so he
ignored them.  It took 6 years from the time I first lectured for the
WEC for anyone to ever even contact me.  My answers to this woman which
included many medical reports is now on
http://www.dorway.com/mssocknows.txt for the world to read the truth.

If you call my exposing the records as scare mongering and a disservice,
what should we call Ajinomoto and all aspartame manufacturers for
poisoning the world, and what kind of service to the world do you call
pushing propaganda instead of facts?   James Bowen, M.D. wrote the FDA
many years ago (on web) and said that aspartame is mass poisoning of the
American public and more than 70+ countries of the world (now 100).  He
said:  "..the only responsible action would be to immediately take
aspartame off the market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full
compensation to the injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who
participated in the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the
marketplace.  That includes those who work so diligently to keep it on
the market as well."  Dr. Bowen is a victim himself suffering with Lou
Gehrigs symptoms just like many of the servicemen who served in the
Persian Gulf and drank the diet drinks cooking in the 120 degree Arabian
sun.  A new study has shown Desert Storm Syndrome to be Lou Gehrigs.
Aspartame destroys the central nervous system and mimics MS as well as
causing Lou Gehrig's symptoms.  And a very serious issue is the fact
that it is a chemical hypersensitization agent and interacts with
vaccines and other toxins and additives.  Many on the support groups
even react to GM foods which consumers never asked for, Frankenfoods!

Obviously, the issue of the approval of aspartame for market has
violated every principle of responsible science and responsible
government.  First of all, in this country an additive must be inert or
non- reactive and here we are with a neurotoxic drug that interacts with
just about every drug used to treat the problems it causes.  Aspartame
interacts with Premarin, Dilantin and like anti-seizure medication,
insulin, Dilaudid, L-dopa, antidepressants, Coumadin and cardiac
medication for starters.  Now at least we have a medical text for
physicians and consumers to untie the hands of doctors who were kept
from getting the real data that would allow them to diagnose accurately.

And your little PR campaign to try and prevent the press from writing
articles won't help you.  I give more credit to the press who have
excellent investigative reporters and have the ability to distinguish
fact from fiction.

I look forward to the day when we get this toxin off the planet and no
longer have to worry about babies (as well as adults) suffering
seizures, people dropping dead, going blind, getting brain tumors, and
suffering from more than the 92 documented symptoms on the FDA list and
the many diseases as documented in the new medical text.

Aspartame has destroyed families.  As Dr. Bowen said in Aspartame
Murders Infants, "At every point in the fertility process aspartame
destroys, beginning with the gleam in Mom and Pop's eyes.  It ruins
female sexual response and induces male sexual dysfunction.  Beyond this
aspartame disrupts fetal development by aborting it or inducing defects.
And if a live child is born aspartame may have heinously damaged the DNA
of the baby, cursing future generations. "  You didn't even have the
decency to put a warning for pregnant women.  And you push this toxin on
diabetics when you know it can precipitate diabetes, keeps blood sugar
out of control, interacts with insulin, destroys the optic nerve and can
even cause diabetics to go into convulsions.  You market a drug that has
wood alcohol  or methanol in it which is classified as a narcotic and
converts to formaldehyde and formic acid even in the retina of the eye
and blinds.

And I'm sure you know about the studies done in South America by Searle
and never published where humans developed brain tumors and had grand
mal seizures.  Some even died.  These studies showed aspartame destroys
the central nervous system and the brain and even hardens the synovial
fluids which accounts for the agonizing joint pain aspartame victims
suffer.

Today 100,000 web sites are warning consumers off aspartame and there is
no way for you to win.  I leave you with a challenge.  If you really
want the people to have the facts, then put the government records on
your web site, the secret trade information
(http://www.dorway.com/secrets.html), the protest of the National Soft
Drink Association (http://www.dorway.com/nsda.html), part of the
Congressional Record, the Bressler Report (FDA audit)
(http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt), the entire investigation by the
Center for Disease Control, all 146 pages
(http://www.dorway.com/cdctext.txt), the summation of the Board of
Inquiry telling the FDA not to approve aspartame
(http://www.dorway.com/pboi.txt), FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross'
letters to Senator Metzenbaum outlining what was found on studies
(http://www.dorway.com/gross.txt), testimony before Congress by various
physicians including Dr. Louis Elsas, the FDA report of 92 symptoms
(http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html), the pivotal 52 week oral toxicity
study showing aspartame to be a seizure triggering drug
(http://www.dorway.com/raoreport.pdf), Dr. Ralph Walton's peer reviewed
research (http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html), etc.  And stay tuned
because we are adding even more government records including the entire
congressional record.  But if you're afraid of the facts and you don't
want the public to know the truth, you won't.  In that case, we'll just
send this letter around the world.

  I know one day they will pin metals on the physicians who have had the
courage to alert the public, write the books that have exposed the
dangers of aspartame and written the reports you have tried to attack.
The approval of aspartame will go down in history as one of the greatest
scandals  in this country,  the mass poisoning of the US and 100
countries of the world.  You can count on it.

Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
http://www.dorway.com