Reply #66: Rumsfeld's conflict of interest and ASPARTAME [View All]

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

-if Rumsfeld got aspartame approved and was paid big bucks for doing it I want no part of it.
It gives me headaches--I know that Rumsfeld tried to sell us on WMD's, he's a lying sob at heart.


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Rumsfeld's conflict of interests and ASPARTAME: Rumsfeld was president of
Serle corporation in 1977, maker of aspartame, then, part of Reagan
transition team, and got aspartame 'legalized' by appointing a defense
department contractor (Hayes) as head of FDA!........



In October 1980 the Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) impaneled by the FDA to
evaluate aspartame safety found that the chemical caused an unacceptable
level of brain tumors in animal testing. Based on this fact, the PBOI ruled
that aspartame should not be added to the food supply.-------

http://csf.colorado.edu/envtecsoc/2002/msg00440.html