How Aspartame Became Legal

On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener, and Reagan's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry's decision. It soon became clear that the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision, but Hull then installed a sixth member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked. He then personally broke the tie in aspartame's favor. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about aspartame. The Aspartame/NutraSweet Timeline http://www.swankin-turner.com/aspartame.html http://www.swankin-turner.com/hist.html Aspartame/NutraSweet: The History of the Aspartame Controversy By James Turner, ESQ. Director of the National Institute of Science, Law, and Public Policy (NISLAPP) National Institute of Science, Law, and Public Policy Timeline December 1965-- While working on an ulcer drug, James Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle, accidentally discovers aspartame, a substance that is 180 times sweeter than sugar yet has no calories. Spring 1967-- Searle begins the safety tests on aspartame that are necessary for applying for FDA approval of food additives. Fall 1967-- Dr. Harold Waisman, a biochemist at the University of Wisconsin, conducts aspartame safety tests on infant monkeys on behalf of the Searle Company. Of the seven monkeys that were being fed aspartame mixed with milk, one dies and five others have grand mal seizures. Full Story: http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on December 3, 2005]

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