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  NutraSweet - News Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As executives at NutraSweet in the early 1980s, both Healy and Rosa were instrumental in successfully launching NutraSweet, which has become the global market leader in the $1.1 billion worldwide high-intensity sweetener market.
Members of the new management team are also investors with J.W. Childs in the purchase of NutraSweet, and have a significant ownership stake in the business.
NutraSweet® brand aspartame is sold in more than 100 countries and used in approximately 5,000 products by 250 million people on a regular basis today.
www.nutrasweet.com /media/index.asp   (695 words)

  
 NutraSweet does not cause cancer/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
You can be extremely confident when you choose NutraSweet because it's made of the same components found in the foods we eat everyday such as meat, milk, fruits and vegetables.
The amount of NutraSweet in the studies ranged from 3,000 to 8,000 mg/kg of body weight (thousands of times human consumption) on a daily basis for up to 2 years.
NutraSweet has gone above and beyond FDA established standards, and has been proven safe by the general population, including children and pregnant women.
www.encolombia.com /aspartamo6-17.htm   (288 words)

  
 The Straight Dope: Did aspartame (NutraSweet) cause "gulf war syndrome"?
The paper goes on to suggest this may be the cause of Gulf War Syndrome, since the troops all drank diet drinks that had sat in the desert sun for several days.
The NutraSweet company says too few people participated in the Walton study to permit any conclusions to be drawn.
NutraSweet's point about small numbers is well taken, and it may be that the eye problems were a coincidence.
www.straightdope.com /classics/a961129.html   (1067 words)

  
 $350 Million Plus Lawsuit Filed Against Nutrasweet Monsanto Aspartame Sweetener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Among other businesses, NutraSweet was engaged in the advertising of and for, purchase and sale of Aspartame and Aspartame infused products, construction and ownership of facilities used in the additive process infusing Aspartame into foods, beverages and/or drug related products for the consumption of the general public in various countries, including the United States.
NutraSweet stated that one of their options for increasing sales in the carbonated soft drink market is to prepare "higher-concentration formulations that use more Aspartame" (Monsanto 1992).
NutraSweet said that outside reviewers had found omissions and distortions in the study, so, "in the interest of scientific accuracy and fairness" it asked to publish an article in the same issue on brain-tumor trends.
www.dldewey.com /columns/ricof2.htm   (15681 words)

  
 Information on NutraSweet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
NutraSweet is The NutraSweet Company's brand name for the sweetening ingredient aspartame.
You can be extremely confident when your child consumes NutraSweet brand sweetener because NutraSweet is made of the same components found in the foods we eat everyday such as meat, milk, fruits and vegetables.
When NutraSweet was evaluated as safe, studies in young children verified that they metabolize NutraSweet the same way as adults.
www.aspartaam.nl /artikelen_eng/lib_info.html   (583 words)

  
 The Boycott-Board : NutraSweet.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
NutraSweet, and Equal (aspartame) are products of Monsanto : A nightmare litany of adverse effects have been reported for aspartame, and the research is so flawed that it prompted government investigations.
Among the symptoms listed are blindness seizures, memory loss, loss of limb control, slurred speech, skin lesions, extremity numbness, depression, mood swings, anxiety attacks, coma and death.
I personally question the reliability and validity of any studies funded by the NutraSweet Company." A dozen airplane magazines, including Flying Safety, published by the U.S. Air Force, have issued warnings about seizures and vertigo among pilots ingesting aspartame.
boycot.port5.com /foodendrug/fooddoc/NutraSweet.htm   (314 words)

  
 The NutraSweet Company - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
Aspartame was discovered in 1965 (and soon given the NutraSweet brand name) by chemical company Searle (later bought by Monsanto).
NutraSweet also won FDA approval in 2002 for neotame, which is 8,000 times sweeter than sugar.
There are 15 competitors for NutraSweet; see more.
www.hoovers.com /nutrasweet/--ID__101064--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (306 words)

  
 Racketeering Charges filed Against NutraSweet (Trying to nail Rumsfeld!!)
Defendant Moser, past CEO of NutraSweet, is cited for misrepresenting facts to public and commercial users with full knowledge of the deceptions.
No Nutrasweet and the company is owned by Mike Savage's son so I know a trained herbalist had some input.
NutraSweet is the nastiest substance I've ever had that claimed to be a sweetner.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1218067/posts   (1499 words)

  
 Indymedia UK - NutraSweet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The FDA is ever mindful to refer to aspartame, widely known as NutraSweet, as a "food additive"-never a "drug." A "drug" on the label of a Diet Coke might discourage the consumer.
At the May, 1985 hearings on NutraSweet, Louisiana Senator Russell Long related a bizarre anecdote: SENATOR LONG: I have received a letter recently from a person who is well known to me and whose word is impeccable, as far as I am concerned.
In July, 1984 a broad investigation of NutraSweet's adverse effects was conducted by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/07/273656.html   (7413 words)

  
 business@ugusta: 'Misinterpretation' leaves Nutrasweet Corp. with bad taste 11/19/96
NutraSweet is getting a bitter taste of a researcher's ``misinterpretation'' of data, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The debate surrounding a study that questions the safety of the artificial sweetener puts Augusta front and center: The only plant that produces NutraSweet in the United States is here, and it produces all the NutraSweet in the world, except in Europe.
Olney acknowledged Monday that he lacks proof NutraSweet is dangerous, but he joined consumer advocates to demand the FDA and Congress order new, large studies of NutraSweet.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/112096/nutra.html   (610 words)

  
 WARNING! NutraSweet is A Neurotoxin!
NutraSweet is in 5,000 foods (0ver 9000 by 1997) and on every restaurant table for the same reasons tobacco is everywhere: Greed, Addiction and Profit!
The NutraSweet Company and sister Searle whose chemists discovered aspartame while testing an ulcer drug are owned by Monsanto.
The best way to understand NutraSweet is to think of it as a minute dose of nerve gas that eradicates brain and nerve functions.
www.tetrahedron.org /articles/health_risks/Aspartame_Modern_Thalidomide.html   (1347 words)

  
 What is NutraSweet®?
is the NutraSweet Company's brand name for the low-calorie artificial sweetener aspartame.
It is used to sweeten a variety of foods and beverages and is about 200 times sweeter than sugar.
However, alleged side effects of aspartame fuel debates on artificial sweeteners such as NutraSweet.
www.greenfacts.org /aspartame/nutrasweet.htm   (169 words)

  
 NutraSweet is linked to increased reports of multiple sclerosis and lupus-Disputed!
While there are good people who disagree about NutraSweet, this particular email is regarded as incorrect and irresponsible by a large number of credible critics.
There is also a version of this eRumor that begins with a long story about a person whose sister became seriously ill over a period of time and prepared for death.
In the keynote address by the EPA, [it was] announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and [the EPA] did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States.
www.truthorfiction.com /rumors/n/nutrasweet.htm   (2032 words)

  
 Aspartame (NutraSweet): Is it Safe:
You may be surprised to learn that a number of medical problems are likely to be adverse reactions to products containing aspartame.
More commonly known by its brand name NutraSweet, aspartame is currently used in some 4,000 products and consumed by hundreds of millions of people.
Author H.J. Roberts, MD, a board-certified internist with impressive credentials, first became suspicious of aspartame when he encountered an increasing number of patients with a wide variety of symptoms that could not be attributed to specific medical problems.
www.charlespresspub.com /aspartame.html   (625 words)

  
 Nancy Markle
CNN has shown the world that the American media is paralyzed and has become the slave of industry-in bondage to the chemical and pharmaceutical companies and their advertising dollars.
For every molecule of NutraSweet, there is a molecule of methanol wrote Dr. Woodrow Monte, in "Methanol and the Public Health." Methanol (10% of NutraSweet) is wood alcohol, a known poison.
One of the most blatant and outrageous parts of the NutraSweet scandal was when two U.S. Prosecutors went to work for Searle's law firm and let the statute of limitations for calling a grand jury expire.
www.presidiotex.com /aspartame/Nancy_Markle/nancy_markle.html   (5490 words)

  
 The NutraSweet Syndrome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
G.D. Searle, the pharmaceutical firm that introduced NutraSweet, worked symbiotically with federal and congressional officials, bribed investigators when violations of law were exposed, "anything" to move aspartame to market.
Since the 1981 approval of NutraSweet, breast cancer has doubled from 90,000 to 180,000, and 300,000 cases of prostate cancer are expected in 1999.
However, in NutraSweet, the methanol is 'free', appearing without ethanol, the antidote for methanol toxicity always present in natural food such as tomato juice.
www.the-catbird-seat.net /NutraSweet.htm   (6801 words)

  
 NutraSweet: The NutraPoison
And because aspartame is classified a food additive, adverse reactions are not reported to a federal agency, nor is continued safety monitoring required by law.
It was "unlikely," said CDC officials, that "complainers" could establish a link between NutraSweet and their maladies-the same bromide once tossed to victims of radiation experiments.
Robert Shapiro, then president of Nutrasweet, used the occasion to enthuse that the survey "clearly established the safety" of the sugar substitute.
www.copi.com /articles/nutrasweet/nutrapoison.html   (8003 words)

  
 Nutrasweet - Sweet Poison
NutraSweet™ (aspartame) can be a significant cause of fatigue for many people.
I discontinued aspartame (NutraSweet™) and found that was the problem.
While Nutrasweet was often featured on the label of diet products, these other sweeteners are often hidden among the ingredients.
www.cfs-recovery.org /aspartam.htm   (918 words)

  
 HISTORY OF ASPARTAME
Wurtman accuses NutraSweet Co. officials of "misrepresenting" the nature of company-financed studies into links between the sweetener, generically known as aspartame, and epileptic seizures, of sidestepping key safety issues, and of threatening to veto his grant application to ILSI's aspartame committee.
Monte said he was convinced in 1983, when the FDA okayed use of NutraSweet in carbonated beverages, that the sweetener would break down into poisonous quantities of methyl alcohol in diet sodas left in the Southwest sun.
And even if NutraSweet were proved hazardous, the purchase agreement provided "no escrow, reserve or holdback for liability stemming from the potential health hazards attributed to the NutraSweet product line," says one lawsuit filed by Chicago lawyer Robert Holstein on behalf of a Monsanto stockholder.
www.wnho.net /history_of_aspartame.htm   (14799 words)

  
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NutraSweet has remained popular not due to its quality of product (or lack of quality, as the case may be), but because The NutraSweet Company designed one of the most brilliantly strategized corporate campaigns in history.
The NutraSweet Company became a trillion dollar industry because seven shrewd corporate and government leaders got away with executing marketing strategies that enabled them to covertly pocket the 'diet' market.
Liaisons were established between the NutraSweet Company and government officials, specifically the FDA and U.S. Department of Transportation.
www.mercola.com /2004/feb/11/nutrasweet.htm   (903 words)

  
 HealthAndCertainty.com -- The Bitter Truth about NutraSweet®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Since saccharine (the sugar substitute made from coal tar) was under fire because of cancer concerns, suddenly, the former ulcer drug became the new kid on the sweetener block.
The FDA continues to proclaim NutraSweet’s Safety with the reassurance of 74 industry-sponsored studies (no problems!), while a review of 90 non-industry studies found that 83 (92 percent) found one or more problems with aspartame.
We might mention that the organization received a check for $75,000 from NutraSweet, and NutraSweet is kind enough to write the ADA’s materials for them.
www.healthandcertainty.com /nutrasweet.asp   (1267 words)

  
 HEALTH ALERT: ASPARTAME / NUTRASWEET POISONING...
Pilots have experienced grand mal seizures in the cockpits of commercial airline flights and have lost their medical certification to fly, and three have died this year from aspartame.
NutraSweet is found in thousands of foods and on every restaurant table for the same reasons tobacco is everywhere: Greed, Addiction and Profit.
NutraSweet / Equal / Spoonful are the deadliest toxins in our society because of their ubiquitous presence in thousands of foods like children's vitamins, medicines, Kool Aid, Jell-O and on every restaurant table.
www.kauhawaii.com /healalasnutp.html   (1590 words)

  
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I then conducted one personal experiment with Nutrasweet and that was to eat a breathmint sweetened with it.
I won't say that Nutrasweet, Searle, and Monsanto ruined her life because she's made her life over with purpose and grace and courage.
My husband has not really found anything to replace it since Nutrasweet or sucralose are the main sweeteners in many commercial products for diabetics but he has changed his diet to reduce the amount of artificially sweeted items.
www.holisticmed.net /aspartame/adverse.txt   (22865 words)

  
 Betty Martini Blasts NutraSweet PR Article
NutraSweet (aspartame/Equal/Spoonful,etc.) is an adjuvant, it turns the body against itself, and destroys the immune system.
Back in l983, when NutraSweet was put on the market for (soda) pop, the allowable amount of formaldehyde in ambient air was 500 parts per billion.
While she has every right to believe NutraSweet's provably-inaccurate fairly tales, it is particularly troubling that she would claim the article is "not in defense of NutraSweet...." and then copy directly from their web page article written in defense of NutraSweet.
www.rense.com /general6/ntt.htm   (1783 words)

  
 ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER, ASPARTAME, (EQUAL, NUTRASWEET) LINKED TO BREAST CANCER AND GULF WAR SYNDROME
Breast cancer began to rise rapidly concurrent with the use of aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet), when it was approved in 1981 for use in dry foods and, in 1983, for use in sweetening carbonated beverages.
On July 26, 1974, aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) was approved for limited use as a free-flowing sugar substitute and as tablets for sweetening hot beverages, cereals, gum, and dry bases.
On September 30, 1980, the PBOI voted unanimously to reject the use of aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) until additional studies on aspartame's potential to cause brain tumors could be done.
www.aspartamekills.com /mpvalley   (7851 words)

  
 NutraSweet and Equal: Dangerous Excitotoxins - Boycott
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener produced by GD Searle, a subsidiary of Monsanto.
In California last week, lawsuits were filed in three separate courts against 12 companies that manufacture or use the chemical sweetener aspartame.
The lawsuits, filed on April 7, 2004, allege that the 12 food companies named in the suit committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing thousands of products to consumers containing aspartame, while being fully aware of the dangerous health effects.
www.soaringspiritwithtears.com /boycott/aspartame.html   (731 words)

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