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If you use Nutra Sweet or any 'Lite' sodas think
about this one . . .
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http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/27/stinwenws03032.html?99
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Top 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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