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I worked for J. Walter
Thompson Company (advertising) in the mid-70's and aspartame was even then known
to be damaging.
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Subject: [CTRL] Secret Report from early
80's: evidence that Coke/Pepsi were aware of aspartame dangers
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With malice
aforethought...
Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/27/stinwenws03032.html?999
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sweetener condemned by secret report
Jonathan Leake, Science
Editor
BRITAIN'S bestselling sweetener was condemned as
dangerous and potentially
toxic in a report compiled by some of the world's
biggest soft drinks
manufacturers - who now buy tons of it to add to diet
drinks.
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other manufacturers produced the report in the
early
1980s before the sweetener, aspartame, had been approved for use in
America.
It warns that it can affect the workings of the brain, change
behaviour and
even en-courage users to eat extra carbohydrate, so
destroying the point of
using diet drinks.
The documents were
un-earthed last week under freedom of information
legislation. It follows a
decision by re-searchers at King's College in
London to study suspected
links between aspartame intake and brain tumours.
Britons drink more
than 9 billion cans or bottles of pop a year, of which
about half contain
artificial sweeteners. Aspartame, made by Monsanto and
also marketed under
the name NutraSweet, is 200 times sweeter than normal
sugar and is used in
many popular low-calorie foods and drinks. It has been
declared safe in a
number of studies and has been approved for use in both
America and
Europe.
There has, however, always been concern at its tendency to
break down,
producing methanol, which is both toxic in its own right and
which breaks
down further to produce formic acid and formaldehyde.
Phenylalanine, another
breakdown product of aspartame, is also dangerous to
people with
phenylketonuria, a common enzyme deficiency.
The 30-page
aspartame report was drawn up under the auspices of America's
National Soft
Drinks Association (NSDA), whose governing body at the time
included senior
Coca-Cola and Pepsi executives. It says: "We object to the
approval of
aspartame for unrestricted use in soft drinks." It then lists
ways in which
aspartame was believed directly to affect brain chemistry,
including the
synthesis of vital neurotransmitters such as serotonin.
Other papers
obtained with the NSDA documents show the Food and Drug
Administration also
had misgivings. Despite this, it approved aspartame.
Dick Adamson, of
the NSDA, said that, in l983, it evaluated the data on
aspartame and posed
a number of questions. Once they were answered, it no
longer had concerns
about the safety of aspartame in carbonated drinks.
Ben Deutsch, a
spokesman for Coca-Cola, referred questions to the NSDA.
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