Rat droppings are an incidental ingedient, not an "added" ingredient, so,
goes on the list of allowable impurities at a given maximum...not the
ingredients. 
Question...is aspertame cheaper than corn syrup or sugar?
 If not, and there really is any aspertame in regular soda, it's probably
an incidental ingrediant from running batches through the same bottler
pipes and only the first few bottles will have more than a small trace.
 If you drink beer etc, your body converts some of the alchohol to
formaldehyde, some into methonal and most of it goes to sugars.  The
proportions vary person to person. It's the formaldehyde and methonal that
makes you stink and have that hangover the morning after.
Ken

At 11:22 PM 11/21/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Rite-o.  Otherwise you would see "rat dropping" listed in the back of a hot
>dog package.  Which the FDA allows a certain percentage of rat droppings to
>be in hot dogs.  Whee.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Osbourne, Holmes" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:10 PM
>Subject: RE: CS>aspartame
>
>
>> Somewhere once during a night of addictive surfing I recall reading that
>> they changed the rules so you do not have to list it below a certain
>amount.
>>
>> James-Osbourne: Holmes
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: f.capezzuto [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:52 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: CS>aspartame
>>
>>
>> Exactly.  They add it in regular Coke as well, and they don't tell people
>> about it.  Of couse, it's not as much as diet Coke, but it's still enough
>to
>> not be good for you.  Just cause it's not listed, does not mean it's not
>> there.  Did you ever hear of hidden ingredients?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lona" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:41 PM
>> Subject: CS>aspartame
>>
>>
>> >   Well, you forgot to add, aspartame is also added in regular Coke...
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>> > It is?  Where is it on the label?
>> >
>> > Lona
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