You have a number one DUTY to inform the public.

I present more information on Aspartame (The sweetener used in diet coke etc and 5000+ more foods and medicines).

As a little taster:

Prior to the approval of aspartame, the FDA sent two specialized teams to G.D. Searle, and found a ghastly 95% level of mis-directed testing, concealed tests, collusion between corporate and their company-funded research, inappropriate antemortum issues, withholding of material facts, alteration of records, lying to investigators, lost records, no records, falsification of reports, bribery, poor test methodology or design.... et al.

Please note that a class action is being mounted against those who promote this product actively or by remaining silent when they are made aware of the facts.

This email is now on the records.

Should you require ANY further information, PLEASE visit www.dorway.com  and do not hesitate to contact myself or Mrs Betty Martini.

Regards, Soroush Ebrahimi
Tel: 01 245 328 167
From: "orwilly"
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:24:53 -0400

Written by: Arthur M. Evangelista, former FDA investigator April 26, 2002

To my neighbors of all nations:

As former FDA investigator, I was charged with overseeing two major projects for FDA. These concerned Pesticides and Chemicals in Foods, and Illegal Drug Tissue Residues in Animals (including milk related issues).

I worked closely with sister federal/state agencies, oversaw contracts, and was coordinator and lead investigator on projects involving EPA and USDA.

The FDA (back in the mid-70's to mid-90's) was not a large organization, having an annual budget no larger than a medium-sized hospital by 1995.

The problems with aspartame, includes not only the biochemical nature of this toxin, but also sheds light on the political nature of the players involved, and the changes in regulatory policies and regulations resulting from corporate-government ties and the politicians closely associated with these ties.

What I can tell you, regarding toxicology, histology, and biochemistry, is that aspartame IS neurotoxic. It's components easily transcend the blood-brain barrier, interfering with normal nerve cell function. This affects the glutathione and calcium mechanisms in place, destroying nerve cell integrity.

The methanol, then breaks down into formaldehyde-formic acid components, which denaturizes/mutates the DNA, a known scientific fact. The subsequent result from this interaction, and from isolates of genetically modified amino acids and the methanol, is nerve cell necrosis, and subsequent, organ system degradation.

The hypothalamus alone, the major controller for much of the endocrine system, is at especially high risk to these effects...thereby, affecting many other organ systems.

I have seen first-hand the effects on symptoms when individuals have abstained from ingesting the artificial sweetener, aspartame. Make no bones about it, aspartame is a major factor in many symptomologies due to its effects upon brain chemistry.

Coming from a family (and relatives) of physicians, if there was even a chance that something was wrong with a patient, a truly committed physician would thoroughly investigate any etiology (or cause) regarding an illness (both chronic and subchronic), rather than retain a close-minded approach to available data.

This just boggles my mind when those who are supposed know better, choose to adhere to the organized rhetoric of industry-backed misinformation, without giving the true scientific facts an opportunity to sink in. At the least, consider the possibilities. I guarantee, the truth will then become self-evident !!!

The biggest lie told, is one of self-deceit; not to mention all the people made ill or killed in the process of "ignorant medicine", or a doctor who has sold his skills and M.D. diploma to industrial chemical manufacturers or pharmaceutical firms, or even the National Soft Drink Association !! Money is money...right, Doc ?

Prior to the approval of aspartame, the FDA sent two specialized teams to G.D. Searle, and found an ghastly 95% level of mis-directed testing, concealed tests, collusion between corporate and their company-funded research, inappropriate antemortum issues, withholding of material facts, alteration of records, lying to investigators, lost records, no records, falsification of reports, bribery, poor test methodology or design....et al.

FDA investigators Brodsky and Bressler, both seasoned federal investigators, each led investigative teams to review Searle's lab practices. These practices at Searle were despicable, and should have been thrown out. This is a fact. The actual reports are displayed on http://www.dorway.com .

Unfortunately, many ethics laws were also violated during this time period, by DHHS/PHS/FDA. This was further corrupted by politicians involved with corporate constituents; who in turn affected the regulatory process in favor of these constituents. Another name for it, of course, is bribery.

This was nothing less than full-blown collusion. The "revolving door" at FDA, is very much a reality. Former corporate officials, who began working for the Food and Drug Administration (and vice versa), were very cavalier about issues uncovered at Searle regarding their drug processing, and about aspartame.

Some, with a hidden agenda of promised secret money or better industry jobs, actively hindered the investigation into G.D. Searle's laboratory practices. It is obvious when you see the records and numbers, and WHERE those jobs were.

These are a matter of public and Congressional record.

Subsequently, many former FDA officials, due to their "favorable influences" with regulatory enforcement and rulings, were in fact, rewarded with corporate positions and lucrative incomes, including former FDA commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, who was about to be brought up on ethics and misconduct charges !

The whole process was (is still) rotten throughout. The various independent research completed on aspartame proves this (in part, a chem-warfare agent) is a neurotoxin. It is unlike any other compound on the market. Each of its three components are toxic.

The only people I have met or communicated with, who have steadfastly refused to look at this picture for what it is, have been found to have other agendas, other than the truth. Not even a skeptic, like my brother (a chief microbiologist) could ignore the factual evidence of aspartame's neurotoxicity when presented with the evidence.

Being a skeptic is one thing, but to deny the evidence, the motives, and the pieces of a rather complex and sordid puzzle with common denominators is ludicrous; you'd have to be brain-dead.

To still adhere to the narrow focus of the corporate spin-doctors and corporate-backed rhetoric from federal regulators, means that you have clearly chosen to purposefully close your mind to the evidence, and/or you are operating with a pro-industry (hidden) agenda.

There is rampant corruption in these processes, and it behooves all educated, law enforcement, and scientific-minded individuals to look at the entire picture to piece together one of the biggest travesties in public health history. The common thread which ties this together is the strong political influences and the monumental amounts of money used to purchase the souls of those who have placed greed above common sense, publ health, and the trust of public office.

As an investigator, I found this hard to believe at first, that so many factors have come together to collude in such a way, to allow aspartame into our food supply.

Regardless of how I initially felt about it, the evidence is factual.... it happened. Now we have to do something about it, because its nothing less than mass murder.

Additionally and historically, many recalled products, including FDA regulated products, were once thought safe. DDT was once thought safe, remember ?

History of regulatory problems, fraud, deceit, and scientific corruption with various drug products would serve you well to remember here; Regulatory problems and corruption resulting in mass-illness or deaths with: Prozac; Tomoxifen; the pesticide, sulfonylurea; Halcion; Rezulin; Redux; Dow Chemical; drug-tissue residues in foods (antibiotics) which was known by FDA since the mid-80's , perpetuating further our problem with antibiotic resistant germs.

Remember Agent Orange ? How long did it take for the U.S. government to even acknowledge that there was a problem with spraying a dioxin compound all over the Asian forests during Vietnam ? Monsanto never said a word during this period; no chemical manufacturer did. It was years before the veterans who gave their lives, or who's lives were ruined, were even given the acknowledgement that there was a problem. The Gulf War vets were in the same boat for a while.

Maybe someone will pay attention to their plight.

Many policies, I came to find out, was not to protect the public health, but rather, to provide leverage at appropriations time before Congress, and to protect the industry and their political connections, as to not upset those at the White House. This is especially true when they were paid for their "services" by the pharmaceutical or chemical industries. This is what I call "social cancer".

Many systems for protecting the public health are (were) less than effective... making very little difference on public health issues. Much of it was for "show", and as I said, for funding. Its was the folks in Rockville and Washington which made the final decisions on how to play most of these issues out. Unfortunately for us, it was not to favor the public health processes.

The entire process reeks of political and corporate influences. Many mainstream media newscasts, and reports have exposed this problem.

The FDA (USDA, EPA, and other regulatory or enforcement agencies) have questionably close ties with industry, aside from an unethical revolving door. These ties are even illegal in some aspects and compromise an agency's ability to regulate. It compromises, not only the integrity of the agency, but the information being disseminated, as well. Everything becomes suspect. Then the spin-doctors are called into action.

So, tell me then, why do government agencies support and make policy around industrial concerns, like pharmaceutical or chemical manufacturing firms? The answer is easy: Money and/or power !! Why aren't the government agencies remaining impartial? Somebody has a little influence, that's why... and this influence is not in the public's best interest. Follow the money trail.

The truth has been difficult to come by, yet many, many investigators, lay people, teachers, educators, regulators, and whistle-blowers have, piece by piece, put this highly complex puzzle together, and now see this issue for what it is. The evidence is there.

Unfortunately, I have found that many physicians, including those who can make substantial incomes from treating the effects of the neurotoxin, aspartame, (and other medically 'healable' issues) would rather people not find out about its effects on brain chemistry.

Giving doctors the benefit of the doubt, if he does not consider aspartame poisoning as a cause for concern or instigator of symptoms, he is, simply, not a very good investigator. Then maybe the doctor should try carpentry, or other non-patient related work.

In truth, doctors have a business. This is sub-set of business treatment practices that is making money based on the introduction of a poisonous product.

I also found out that the AMA, and many other so-called health groups, have received substantial monies, contributions, or stipends from Monsanto regarding their products. This includes the very people who are supposed to be helping the public... like the Diabetic Association, Dietetic Association, and many others who diabolically support aspartame and the money it has made them. They are businesses.... and business before public health. Look at their list of contributors, and tell me what you see ?

Regarding aspartame, I wrote articles about this substance. These were about the processes allowing aspartame into the marketplace, through various reports and information uncovered while with the agency, and afterwards, with the help of other investigators and agency data. Much of this information is available for review...you can draw your own conclusions.

Open your mind. Know that the government-corporate issues have shocked us before, to our collective dismay. I urge you to consider all the factors; ...the political, physiological, and regulatory processes, which created the mistaken and unfortunate acceptance of this toxin into our food supply.

This information is not "what I think", nor how I feel........ It is a fact, that aspartame should not have been approved based on the information submitted to the FDA, including the information that wasn't. It is a fact that politics and those with "hidden agendas" illegally affected the regulatory processes, misused and abused their authority, to bring to market this toxic food additive.

If you drink aspartame, and have experienced health problems, then cease your consumption of aspartame (and its cousin, MSG), and see if your symptoms disappear. You have nothing to lose. If you do not take this simple experiment for 60 days, you could lose your life.

Additionally, educate yourselves. Its your body, your health, your life.