FDA Destroyed Incriminating Records on Aspartame

Thursday, January 17, 2008
FDA Destroyed Incriminating Records on Aspartame
FDA Destroyed Incriminating Records on Aspartame
By Betty Martini
Mission Possible

In 2002, I spoke with Jerome Bressler, author of the damning FDA audit that
exposed the corruption of the G. D. Searle Co., originator of aspartame.
Bressler reported that rats killed by the poison were resurrected on paper,
neoplasms filtered out and cancers caused by aspartame were ignored and
deleted from Searle's records.

Today this rat poison and cancer stimulator is sold as NutraSweet and Equal
and is in Diet Coke and thousands of other foods and drinks.

Bressler had retired and I wanted to thank him for being so honest. But his
reply was shocking. He said, "If you think that's bad, when the FDA retyped
my report they left out the worst 20%.They deleted my cover letter and there
are two mice studies you need to see. Get those reports, they're very
important." Doctors H. J. Roberts (Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
www.sunsentpress.com ) and Russell Blaylock (Excitotoxins: The Taste That
Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com ) also called Jerome Bressler and got the
same information.

This report is supposed to be a matter of public record, so Dr. Roberts
asked his Congressman to get the record from the FDA. They even refused his
congressman saying it was confidential. We were amazed that the FDA could
withhold public documents from United States Congressmen. It's incriminating
that a government agency like the FDA, which is suppose to be protecting the
health of the public, would sell its soul to drug and chemical companies.
[See the Bressler Report at http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt Note that
some tables are blacked out and parts of the text are omitted.]

FDA took the Fifth. But the fifth amendment to our Constitution doesn't
permit federal agencies to hide criminal collusion with firms it regulates.

So on November 13, 2007, I sent a certified request to FDA, exercising my
Freedom of Information rights to receive the 20% of the report they deleted.
They said it's confidential and denied my request. I wrote back and
explained that Jerome Bressler never gave permission for them to delete data
from his FDA audit, and since this audit is public information they must
release it.
http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_foia_fda.htm

FDA's response arrived on January 14, 2008 from Chicago, signed by George F.
Bailey, Freedom of Information Officer, stating: "Due to the amount of time
that has elapsed since the Bressler Report was written and based on the
FDA's Records Retention Schedule, records in our files of that age have been
destroyed." They were confidential in November, but when they realized there
was no legal excuse to withhold what they had doctored, they were simply
deleted.

Jerome Bressler blew the cover on G. D. Searle's perjuries. Some FDA
bureaucrat, to protect Searle, blue-penciled Bressler's report, then the
vital details of aspartame's toxicity were denied to a congressman, and now
its
destroyed. Balderdash. This watchdog for the health of a nation received
more complaints on aspartame than on any other additive. In 1995, they
published a list of 10,000 consumer complaints. Isn't it comforting to know
they destroy the evidence of corruption, of deaths, disabilities and
complications visited on the public from approved drugs that produce serious
or fatal injuries. With digital recording & storage technology that can
maintain an infinity of data, FDA plunders it. Call it criminal FDA-Gate.

Protecting industry is what the FDA does. Jerome Bressler is not the only
one who blew the whistle on the FDA. In 1987 Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, a
toxicologist and member of the Bressler Task Force, testified before a US
Senate hearing. She described the discrepancies found in the Searle tests of
aspartame as 'serious departures from acceptable toxicological protocols.'
"It is unthinkable," she said, 'that any reputable toxicologist giving a
complete, objective evaluation of the data resulting from such a study could
conclude anything other than that the study was uninterpretable and
worthless and should be repeated.'

"On the crucial question itself: 'It would appear that the safety of
aspartame and its breakdown products has still not been satisfactorily
determined, since many of the flaws cited in these three studies were also
present in all of the other studies submitted by Searle.' "

What is particularly important about FDA toxicologist Dr. Verrett's
testimony is she is saying that aspartame still had not been proven safe in
1987 and it had been on the market since 1981 which was due to the political
chicanery of Don Rumsfeld who was CEO of Searle. Here is a clip about it
from Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World:
http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

Dr. Verrett went even further on exposing the FDA. She wrote the book in
l973 "Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health: The Case Against Food
Additives". The Chicago Tribune said:" After spending 15 years as a research
scientist for the Food and Drug Administration, Verrett decided to bite the
hand that had been feeding her. The FDA, she says, is not performing its
duty; it has the legal authority to end food pollution, but it has not done
so and it appears that its aims are not in that direction. Privy to a lot of
inside information, Verrett (with the aid of writer Carper) makes a good
case for the necessity of consumer protest. Read it -- all you've got to
lose it your appetite."

Heroine, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett was not the only FDA toxicologist who was on
site and saw Searle's studies, and exposed FDA. On August 1, l985 FDA
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)

So the FDA allowed a product on the market that had been proven to cause
cancer and gave a carcinogen an allowable daily dose. Then when the
impeccable Ramazzini Study was released that proved aspartame to be a
multipotential carcinogen in 2005, which the FDA had always known, peer
reviewed by 7 world experts, they announced in a report aspartame doesn't
cause cancer and completely ignored it. To make matters worse they released
this notice on a Friday prior to Dr. M. Soffritti releasing a second study
the following day, April 23, 2007 at the Mount Sinai Medical School of New
York showing not only does aspartame trigger cancer but even in small
amounts. If a pregnant woman uses it and the baby survives since aspartame
is a teratogen causing birth defects and mental retardation, that child
can grow up and get cancer. By releasing their report during the same time
period they confused the public. They have yet to comment on this damning
second study. Dr. Soffritti received the Irving J. Selikoff Award for his
work, a reward only given three times in history. Barbara Metzler, Mission
Possible New Jersey and myself attended.

The coverup of dangerous products by FDA cast upon the public is notorious.
Another example is the MSG fiasco. Glutamate researchers used aspartame as a
placebo in studies so they could say MSG wouldn't react anymore than the
placebo. MSG is also an excitotoxin like the aspartic acid in aspartame as
discussed in Dr. Blaylock's book, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. In
1993 Jack Samuels, President of the Truth in Labeling Campaign, was
reviewing FDA docket files relating to an FDA study on the safety of amino
acids in supplements. In the files, he found a letter dated March 22, 1991,
from Andrew G. Ebert, PhD, Chairman, International Glutamate Technical
Committee - a glutamate industry organization - in which Ebert admitted that
aspartame had been used since at least 1978 in test and placebo materials
that his organization provided to scientists who study the safety of MSG.
www.truthinlabeling.org

A review of studies conducted with the above-referenced test material
clearly indicates that some subjects reacted to both MSG test material, and
placebo material. Scientists conducting such studies concluded that since
subjects reacted to both MSG and placebos, their reactions were not from
MSG. Even though such logic is highly questionable, we now know that
subjects reacted to placebos because of the presence of aspartame, an
additive that causes MSG-type responses in MSG responses in MSG-sensitive
people.

Because of the disclosure of the use of aspartame in placebo material by
Jack
Samuels, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in
its July 1995 report on the safety of MSG in food, concluded that the use of
aspartame in placebo materials was inappropriate. Why were these early
studies not destroyed too? Because the FDA was caught red-handed. They had
known all these years and done nothing. They did not even slap the hands of
the glutamate industry. Is aspartame still being used as their placebo?

In a Citizens Petition to ban six years ago I exposed the government
documents showing aspartame had never been proven safe and the FDA had been
lying to the public. The law requires that FDA answer in 180 days. They
refused to answer it showing they serve above the law. In October, 2007 I
sent an amendment based on an imminent health hazard which must be answered
immediately. Again, FDA has not answered.

FDA-GATE requires Congress to immediately investigate aspartame approval,
Don Rumsfeld's part in this, and FDA's collusion with the drug and chemical
companies they regulate. In July, 2007 I lectured in New Zealand and met
with their Food Standards who admitted they had done no studies on aspartame
and relied on FDA. New Zealand has their own petition to ban. So aspartame
which is in reality an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that
interacts with drugs and vaccines is being consumed in over 100 countries of
the world by an unwarned public, and has caused a global plague. While the
47 members of the UK Parliament have asked for a ban Food Standards there
also using FDA propaganda has basically ignored the
issue except to say they will do an anecdotal study. Aspartame was approved
in the UK by Paul Turner with their agency through a business deal with
Searle. When Parliament found out they had a blow-out, the story was in the
Guardian, but the poison was never rescinded. When New Mexico attempted to
ban aspartame from the state the capital was saturated with lobbyists lying
to the Senate and House again using FDA propaganda. Addressing the Senate
was difficult with a large proportion of Senators sipping on addictive
Diet Coke. Dr. Ken Stoller also testified and told these Senators he didn't
expect to get anywhere when they were using the product but at least
consider the children. The vote to table was actually by someone who doesn't
drink Diet Coke, the only physician in the legislature, Steve Komadina, MD
from Corrales, an obstetrician and gynecologist who strongly advises his own
patients not to use aspartame because of the formaldehyde neurotoxicity and
the abortifacient effects on the fetus. Which lobbyist got to this OB-GYN
physician senator who didn't care about the rest of the babies in New
Mexico?

It was impossible for Searle to prove their neurotoxin is safe. In one test
on seven monkeys five had grand mal seizures and one died; an 86% casualty
rate. Records were destroyed to protect the guilty FDA regulators and their
corporate sugar-daddies who provide more than half of FDA's funding. Who do
you think they work for: you or the chemical factories? How bad can it
get? How about a product that embalms living tissue and destroys DNA?
http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf I flew to Barcelona to
speak to the researcher who told me it could kill 200 million people. It
already has. Another study FDA has ignored.

Congress should immediately step in and investigate and Codex should ban
aspartame from use.

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 and www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center,
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com