In 1986 Hayes shifted to executive positions in the pharmaceutical industry. Among other recognitions, Hayes served on the editorial boards of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Rational Drug Therapy, and the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, he served as president of both the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention. Other positions held by Hayes:

Founded and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of MediScience Associates, Inc., a consulting organization that works with pharmaceutical firms, biomedical companies and foreign governments (1991-2006)

 

Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (1981-2004)

 

President and CEO, E.M. Pharmaceuticals, a North American subsidiary of Germany's E. Merck AG (1986-1990)

 

Director of QuantRX Biomedical Corporation since September 1, 2006

 

Director, Celgene  

Remember the FDA tried to have G. D. Searle indicted for fraud but both US Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. http://www.mpwhi.com/drug_testing_falsified.htm Then the FDA revoked the petition for approval. The next day Searle filed suit against the FDA. Donald Rumsfeld, then CEO of Searle, said he would call in his markers and get aspartame on the market anyway. What were those markers. President Reagan had told Rumsfeld he would nominate him for Vice President but instead he nominated Bush. Rumsfeld was on Reagan's transition team and he felt Reagan owed him a favor. Reagan paid off to the detriment of the health of the world. First Reagan had Mary Francis Wright of the Reagan transition team call Dr. Jere Goyan, FDA Commissioner who would have signed the revoked Board of Inquiry Report of the FDA into law, at 3:00 AM and fire him. Here is the letter from his wife confirming those facts:

http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_about_jere_goyan.pdf The day after President Reagan took office he appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to over-rule the Board of Inquiry. However, he knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes there and it would be too late. So he wrote an Executive Order making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame until Hayes got there.

All this is confirmed by Attorney James Turner in the movie Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, http://www.soundandfury.tv Here is the clip "Meet Donald Rumsfeld": http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld.html The Executive Order, incidentally, is by law suppose to be on file and yet has been stricken. I wrote the FDA a FOIA request and they have refused to release it.

Once Hayes got to the FDA it changed. No longer was FDA the adversary of Big Pharma. Here's a newspaper article that discusses this in detail called "The New FDA: Good Medicine for Drug Companies" - http://www.mpwhi.com/the_new_fda.htm Hayes over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and got aspartame marketed. What was his reward? He went to work for Searle's PR Firm, for $1.000 a day. What a reward. One article said he was never there except for about 15 days. You know what an FDA Commissioner does at a PR firm? Send postcards home from Bermuda!

Now here Hayes writes about the FDA and discloses what we know and what he knew at the time of approval. For one thing he mentions that food adulteration is a federal crime. Yet he had seen the protest of the National Soft Drink Association which is now in the congressional record and knew aspartame is adulterated. http://www.mpwhi.com/open_letter_dick_adamson.htm He discusses in this article that the law on adulteration which is mentioned in the protest above banned from interstate commerce any traffic in adulterated or misbranded food or drugs and made it unlawful to manufacture such products in the United States. So Hayes has over-ruled a Board of Inquiry that revoked the petition for approval of aspartame with full knowledge that this poison is adulterated and also violates Interstate Commerce laws. What gall. How blatant can you be? Hayes had full knowledge that aspartame violated the law.

Hayes also knew that aspartame violates the Delaney Amendment. The late FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross exposed this later in congressional hearings and admitted FDA violated the law. It was violated by Arthur Hull Hayes!

On August 1, l985 the FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one of Searle's studies "has established beyond ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and that this predisposition of it is of extremely high significance. ... In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?"

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross asked, "Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe' level of it? Is that position in effect not equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public?" Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

Also note there is no safe dose of aspartame. Hayes discusses comprehensive legislation over the years. He mentions the addition of poisonous substances to foods was prohibited. What is aspartame but an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug - a deadly chemical poison. It was listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress. (NutraPoison on http://www.dorway.com and The Ecologist:

http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf) It is a chemical hypersensitization product and makes victims chemically hypersensitive for life.

Hayes knew aspartame was poison, that the FDA had tried to have the company indicted for fraud. They simply couldn't get this poison to show safety and they got caught. FDA Audit, Bressler Report: http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt Later on 60 Minutes when Dr. John Olney made world news on the aspartame brain tumor issue, Dr. Ralph Walton exposed research on scientific peer reviewed studies and funding. Seems 92% of independent studies show the problems and if you eliminate 6 studies the FDA had something to do with since their conversion to Big Pharma's Washington Branch Office, betraying the public trust, and one pro-industry summary, 100% of independent studies show the problems.

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame goes over industry severely "flawed" studies and explains how its done. For instance, here is scientific abuse in seizure research on aspartame: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html An epileptic organization has told us they did a study and it showed that aspartame not only triggers seizure but epilepsy and no anti-seizure medication will work. We always knew this and its in Dr. Roberts medical text but now there is a study to prove it. No wonder Searle's Vice President threatened Dr. Richard Wurtman if he did studies on aspartame and seizures his research funds would be denied. They were. Dr. Wurtman no longer speaks out on aspartame.

Arthur Hayes goes over Postmarketing Surveillance. He says if experience demonstrates a lack of safety the FDA is able to take steps to remove it from the market. When the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington DC petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame because of the seizures and blindness FDA refused. In fact, in l985 it was admitted in Congressional hearings the FDA was getting so many complaints on aspartame they were referring them to the AIDS Hotline. Yes, the new FDA, responsible to solve the problem BECAME THE PROBLEM.

Hayes ends by saying that the FDA and the medical profession, from differing but overlapping perspectives, share a direct interest in making sure that technology yields the greatest benefit to society at the least possible risk. Yet, Hayes two months earlier had approved a deadly poison with full knowledge creating an ignored epidemic in now over 100 countries of the world. Aspartic acid, 40% of aspartame is an excitotoxin (Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, Russell Blaylock, M.D.,

http://www.russellblaylockmd.com), the free methyl alcohol is a neurotoxin, 10% by weight, and the phenylalanine, 50%, as an isolate a neurotoxin. The molecule breaks down into diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent. The Ramazzini Studies in Italy show aspartame to be what the FDA has always known, a deadly multipotential carcinogen, even in small amounts. The Trocho Study in Barcelona shows the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA. When you damage DNA you can destroy humanity. Hayes even discusses as a public health agency, the FDA has a continuing responsibility to provide the public with accurate and timely information about the health implications of the products it regulates.

Read this article written by Arthur Hull Hayes who knew the truth about aspartame and how poisonous it is, over-ruled the Board of Inquiry of the FDA and released it on the market, then had the brazenness to write this article as if he believed in safety. Then read the article below my signature by Cynthia Drasler, "A Crisis in Confidence: What Happened To the Old FDA?" The newspaper article above answers her question, Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed FDA Commissioner. Today the FDA are nothing but puppets for Big Pharma and they serve above the law. The Citizens Petition for Ban of aspartame I wrote 6 years ago has never been answered even though the law requires it do so in 180 days. Mitchell Cheeseman who heads the Additives Division refuses to even answer my phone call. The amendment regarding an imminent health hazard has also been ignored that must be answered in a week or ten days and was sent in October.

The heros of the old FDA were Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA toxicologist who asked for the indictment of Searle, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett who told Congress all studies on aspartame were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out and aspartame has never been proven safe, and Jerome Bressler who wrote the FDA audit. The worst 20%, two mice studies were stricken when FDA retyped it. A FOIA request said the records were confidential and later said they had been destroyed.

Dr. Gross and Dr. Verrett are now deceased but their records will go down in history. They made a difference. Dr. Verrett left behind the book, "Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health: The Case Against Food Additives." Her summary says it all:

"Obviously, the final question is: What can be done to restore the consumers their right to safe food regardless of economic and political interests? Anyone who has sen the FDA organized an reorganized and scrutinized by Congress knows this is a tough one. Probably the best solution, as some members of Congress have suggested, is to abolish the FDA and start over with a completely new agency free of some of the political pressures."

She also said, "Ralph Nader has another excellent idea to keep administrators and policy-makers from being corrupted. He would write into law a provision that officials who display gross dereliction of their duties could be sued by citizens and would be subject to fines, dismissal and criminal penalties. This provision obviously would be a constant reminder to food protection officials of precisely who their constituency is." Dr. Verrett wrote this book years ago. Finally, Dr. Verrett said: "When science and the public interest win out, it is invariably only after the government has been pushed to the wall by consumer advocates and other public pressure."

May Dr. Adrian Gross and Dr. Jacqueline Verrett rest in peace as we forge on and ask Congress to put an end to this FDA that lies and endangers the lives of the public, serves above the law, and refuses to remove a deadly poison, aspartame, that has caused a global plague. As Dr. James Bowen told the FDA over 20 years ago, "..the only responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame off the market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the marketplace.

That includes those who work so diligently to keep it on the market as well."

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Founder, Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com
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Aspartame Toxicity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Monsanto Company Part I (Full article)

 

For 16 years, the Food and Drug Administration denied approval of aspartame because of compelling evidence of its contributing to brain tumours and other serious disabilities. Donald Rumsfeld left President Ford's administration as Chief of Staff to become the CEO of aspartame-producer GD Searle Co. in 1981. Shortly after, Rumsfeld became the CEO, and the day after President Reagan took office, aspartame was quickly approved by FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes over the objections of the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry.

 

Searle officials sought to suppress the FDA findings and obstruct justice. They turned to Nixon and Ford administration operative Donald Rumsfeld and elected him "chairman of the Searle organization." In 1977, the Wall Street Journal detailed the fact that Rumsfeld made efforts to "mend fences" by asking "what Searle could do" in the face of the changes. Also in 1977, Dr. Adrian Gross, a pathologist working for the FDA, uncovered evidence that G.D.Searle might have committed criminal fraud in withholding adverse data on aspartame. 

 

The FDA requested that U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner be hired to investigate Searle’s aspartame testing procedures in January 1977. Samuel Skinner was the federal prosecutor responsible for convincing the Grand Jury to investigate whether Searle willfully and criminally withheld data that cast doubt on the safety of aspartame. In February 1977, Skinner met with Searle attorneys at the Chicago law firm of Sidney & Austin. Suddenly, newly elected President Carter announced that Skinner would not remain in office, and Skinner thereafter announced that he would be hired by Sidney & Austin. Obviously, Skinner then had to recuse himself from the Searle prosecution. The case was taken over by U.S. Attorney William Conlon, who essentially sat on the case, despite complaints from the Justice Department, which was urging that a grand jury be convened to prosecute Searle Company for falsifying Nutra-Sweet test data. Failing to preform his duty, Conlon also joined Searle’s law firm in January 1979.

 

Skinner’s defection from the FDA might have been prompted by the results of the review of the Searle studies. David Hattan, deputy director of the FDA Division of Toxicological Review and Evaluation, concedes that anyone reading the orginal FDA investigation reports is likely to be "shocked" by what they reveal. He says that the ensuing review of the Searle studies, in which he was involved from the time of his arrival in 1978, was one of the most thorough in the agency’s history. It included an unprecedented hearing before a public board of inquiry composed of experts from outside the agency. Arthur Hayes, Jr., then Commissioner of the FDA appointed by Reagan, agreed with Searle and the FDA’s Bureau of Foods (now the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition) that "an appropriate analysis of the data showed no significant increases in tumor incidence in rats exposed to aspartame or DKP, one of the breakdown products of aspartame. The board of inquiry rejected concerns that aspartame’s components could cause neurological damage

 

In January 1977, the FDA wrote a 33-page letter to US Justice Department Attorney Sam Skinner: "We request that your office convene a Grand Jury investigation into apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act." Skinner allowed the Statute of Limitations to run. Three FDA Commissioners and eight other officers and Skinner took jobs in the aspartame industry shortly after it was approved.

 

The FDA once listed 92 adverse reactions from 10,000 consumer complaints and would send the list to all inquirers. In 1996 the FDA stopped taking complaints and now denies the existence of the report. Seizures, blindness, sexual dysfunction, obesity, testicular, mammary and brain tumours and death, plus dozens of other dread diseases named in the suit, arise from the consumption of this neurotoxin.

 

Defendant Moser, past CEO of NutraSweet, is cited for misrepresenting facts to public and commercial users with full knowledge of the deceptions. Aspartame/Nutrasweet is sold to Bayer, Con Agra Foods, Dannon, Smucker, Kellogg, Wrigley, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods (Crystal Light), Conopco (Slim-Fast), Coke, Pfizer, Wal-Mart and Wyeth (to name a few), who use it in some of their products, including children's vitamins. These entities are named in other suits now in Californian courts.

 

Defendant American Diabetes Association is meant to care for diabetics. A 35-year ADA member, diabetic specialist HJ Roberts, MD, FACP, discovered aspartame can precipitate or aggravate diabetes and its complications, or simulate the complications (especially neuropathy and retinopathy). His report, intended for the Annual Scientific Meeting of the ADA, was rejected for presentation - and even publication of the abstract - but was later published in another medical journal.

 

After leaving the CIA in 1977, Bush was made director of Eli Lily to none other than Dan Quayle's father and family, who owned controlling interest in the Lilly company and the Indianapolis Star.

 

Bush actively lobbied both within and without the administration as Vice President in 1981 to permit drug companies to dump more unwanted, obsolete or especially domestically-banned substances on unsuspecting Third World countries.

 

While Vice President, Bush continued to illegally act on behalf of pharmaceutical companies by personally going to the IRS for special tax breaks for certain drug companies (e.g. Lilly) manufacturing in Puerto Rico.

 

 

 

 

Rummy, Aspartame  And Swine Flu

 

 

By Anthony Wile

FreeMarketNews.com

11-16-5

 

POMPANO BEACH and MONTREAL -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is not only a force in launching the controversial flu remedy Tamiflu, he is also behind the release of the increasingly criticized sweetener aspartame. In fact, he?s mentioned in a $350 million class action lawsuit filed by US consumer group the National Justice League. According to a September 2005 Ecologist Magazine cover story, ?Aspartame - the shocking story of the world's bestselling sweetener? by health writer Pat Thomas, The Ramizzini Institute in Bologna, a non- profit, private research institution, recently released ?the results of a very large, long-term animal study into aspartame ingestion. Its study shows that aspartame causes lymphomas and leukaemia in female animals fed aspartame at doses around 20 milligrams per kilogram of body weight, or around half the accepted daily intake for humans.? Health problems linked to aspartame reportedly include arthritis, brain cancer, memory loss, hearing loss, hypertension, abdominal pain, headache and migraines.

 

How did Rumsfeld, better known these days for the windfall he has reaped from the sudden popularity of the antiviral Tamiflu, get mixed up with aspartame? It happened when he became the chief executive officer of a worldwide pharmaceutical G.D. Searle & Company in 1977, some 12 years after aspartame?s discovery by G.D. Searle chemist James Schlatter. A story by Rishi Mehta, associate commentary editor for the University of Connecticut Daily Campus newspaper, points out the following: ?In 1981, after over 15 years of FDA disapproval of aspartame, Rumsfeld said in a Searle sales meeting that he would use ?political rather than scientific means? to finally get FDA approval. Only 20 days later, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as 40th President of the United States, appointing Rumfeld as Special Envoy to the Middle East and Arthur Hayes Hull Jr. - a friend of Rumsfeld's - to FDA commissioner."

 

The article adds, ?Within one day, Rumsfeld and Searle reapplied to Hull's FDA for approval of aspartame. A few months later Hayes appointed a five- member committee to review whether or not aspartame should be approved. When it became apparent there would be a 3-2 decision against approval of the substance, Hull appointed a sixth person. Once the vote became deadlocked, Hayes took it upon himself to make the tie-breaking vote, allowing aspartame to receive FDA approval. Only three months later, Hayes resigned under controversy only to shortly thereafter take a senior position with Burston- Marsteller - a company which was the public relations firm for Rumsfeld's Searle.?

 

One of the many problems with such apparent cronyism is that it taints any government proposal having to do with health care or emergency health powers. This is no hypothetical concern either. Late in October 2005 the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873) was introduced in the Senate to ?prepare and strengthen the biodefenses of the United States against deliberate, accidental, and natural outbreaks of illness, and for other purposes.? It establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the focal point of a secret effort to develop vaccines and other medical countermeasures, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has called "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." According to Canadian- based Global Research, ?The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency."

 

While Rumsfeld is not directly involved in the legislation, it contains many of the defects associated with Rumsfeld?s conflation of private and public spheres as regards health care. This iteration, perhaps the most radical yet, allows large pharmaceutical to operate in secret with government researchers using ?biodefense? research funds to develop what may be questionable treatments for which they will not be liable. Left alone, the private sector would develop branding and testing agencies ? and these entities would be on guard against corruption which could sink their businesses. But by commingling private health care initiatives with secret, emergency biodefense developments, the government is making it impossible to apply the competitive benefits of the marketplace or scientific transparency. It is a recipe for the development of flawed treatment regimes that may offer tragic consequences.

 

For precedent, ironically, it is not necessary to look any further than Rumsfeld himself and his role in the little remembered 1970?s medical debacle of Swine Flu. According to Lisa Parsons in a review of "Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health," by William Sargent, 2002, University Press of New England: ?The Rumsfeld [connection to Swine Flu] starts in 1976, when a military recruit in New Jersey died from a flu that experts speculated might be the ?swine flu? virus of 1918 pandemic fame. As Sargent tells it, Rumsfeld, who was then and is again the nation's secretary of defense, made the imminent ?swine flu? a political issue to add some spark to the campaign of President Ford, an interim leader without a cause. At Rumsfeld's urging, the administration would ensure that "every man, woman and child" was vaccinated. Huge amounts of vaccine were produced and distributed quickly."

 

Parsons adds, ?Some batches were contaminated. This was in the days before lysate. Six hundred people sickened and 52 died. The program was stopped a month after the election. And nobody got swine flu. ?It was,? writes Sargent, ?modern medicine's most flagrant miscalculation.? Parsons also mentions Sargent?s linkage between the '76 swine flu scare and the more current discussion about a smallpox vaccine. ??How will the United States protect itself against bioterrorism?? [Sargent] asks. ?The Department of Defense proposes ? 40 million new doses of smallpox vaccine.? Sargent is concerned about the possibility of bacterial contamination in vaccines that are rushed to market, and suggests that such contamination might have been behind adverse reactions to the vaccine in the past. ?[Rumsfeld] is one of the architects of the present campaign.??

 

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola at the Alliance for Human Research Protection, observers of the Swine Flu debacle had far stronger comments than Sargent's, as follows: ?Ida Honorof [called it], ?the most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy? ever ? proposed by the President 'and his coterie of scientific hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political capital, rammed through without consideration of people's health and lives and approved by a band-wagon Congress? eager to make the nation's ?health? a bipartisan concern.?

 

 

 

The FDA's Stevia-controversy

Why was Stevia banned by the FDA?

Perhaps for the same reason that Aspartame (NutraSweet) was unbanned? The non-patentable, natural Stevia is the main competitor for a multi-billion dollar sweetener industry. If this sounds far-fetched, watch this excerpt from the documentary "Sweet Misery" on how the FDA initially banned Aspartame for 16 years, but Donald Rumsfeld - President of Searle and member of Reagan's transition team - fired the FDA chief and put a puppet in his place who overturned Aspartame's ban during his first day in office. Aspartame-patentholder Searle was sold to Monsanto - a major Aspartame producer.

During the FDA's 16-year ban on Aspartame, G.D. Searle Company continued to spend millions of dollars in their effort to bring it to market, trying to persuade the FDA that their studies 'proving' the safety of Aspartame were sound. An investigation into Searle’s testing procedures subsequently came into question.

During the investigation into Searle’s testing procedures, it was discovered that much of the data was inaccurate, manipulated, and downright false. The investigators reported "Never to have seen anything as bad as Searle’s testing". What followed was a first in the history of the FDA: They requested a criminal investigation of a manufacturer for knowingly misrepresenting data, concealing material facts and falsifying tests.

The U.S. Attorney’s office was asked to begin grand jury proceedings to investigate whether indictments should be filed against Searle. The U.S. Attorney in charge of the investigation was Samuel Skinner and Sidley & Austin was the law firm representing Searle. Sidley & Austin negotiated a job deal with Samuel Skinner and in July 1977, Mr. Samuel Skinner left his U.S. Attorney’s position and joined the Sidley & Austin law firm working for Searle. His resignation stalled the grand jury investigation long enough for the statute of limitations on the Aspartame charges to expire. Therefore the grand jury investigation was cancelled.

The Public Board of Inquiry, FDA scientists and investigators, the National Soft Drink Association and many others made their objections of any Aspartame approval clear. But then Searle hired Donald Rumsfeld in March 1977 as their CEO. As former Member of Congress and Secretary of Defense in the Ford Administration, Donald Rumsfeld soon hired several of his Washington friends as top management. Rumsfeld, then CEO of Searle, stated in a January 1981 sales meeting that he would push for Aspartame's approval using his political clout in Washington, rather than proper scientific means.

When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President of the United States, Reagan’s transition team, (incl. Rumsfeld), picked Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to be the new FDA Commissioner. In one of his first official acts as the new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hayes approved Aspartame. Dr. Hayes resigned two years later and took a job with Burson-Marsteller, Searle’s public relations firm, as a senior scientific consultant. Burson-Marsteller also represented several of Aspartame's major corporate users.

 

And then in 1998, two FDA officers forced Oscar Rodes of the Stevita company to burn, yes, burn, thousands of copies of their "Stevia Cookbook", because the literature suggested that "Stevia could be used as anything else than a dietary supplement" (namely as a sweetener). And that's a criminal offence.

 

Stevia as a sweetener for human consumption is still forbidden in many countries besides the US. In Norway for example, the maximum punishment for importing it is a - never enforced - three months in jail. If you want to know more about the countries that allow and disallow Stevia as a sweetener, read about Codex Alimentarius.

 

 

 

 

 

Em Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Incorporated by Hayes, Arthur Hull, Jr., Niederehe, Hans Guenter, Haasen, Adolf, Stephens, Thomas J., Haeusler, Guenter, Pernick, Alan S., Em Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is located at 5 Skyline Dr Hawthorne, NY 10532. Em Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated on Monday, June 08, 1987 in the State of FL and is currently not active.

 

 

MediScience Associates , Inc.

 

90 Elk Avenue
New Rochelle, New York 10

 

Tapestry Pharmaceuticals/Inc · 10-K/A · For 12/31/99

Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., M.D., 66, was appointed a director of NaPro in March 1996. He is currently President and Chief Operating Officer of MediScience Associates, Inc., a pharmaceutical consulting company, and is a Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. From 1981 to 1983, Dr. Hayes served as the Commissioner of the FDA. From 1986 to 1991, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of EM Pharmaceuticals, as    well as a member of the board of directors.

Dr. Hayes served as Provost & Dean at New York Medical College from 1983 to 1986, and served as the Director of the Institute of Human Values in Medical  Ethics, International Health and Biomedical Sciences, the latter of which he also served as Chairman. Dr. Hayes has held several posts with Pennsylvania State University which included Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology from 1977
to 1981, Dean of Admissions from 1976 to 1979 and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology from 1972 to 1977. Dr. Hayes currently serves on the board of directors of Myriad Genetics, Inc. (a genomic research and pharmaceutical company), Celgene Corporation (a pharmaceutical company), and Premier Research Worldwide. Dr. Hayes' received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and also attended Cornell's Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology. He undertook premedical studies, and attended medical school at Georgetown University. Dr. Hayes received his M.S. (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his A.B.(Philosophy) from Santa Clara University in 1955.

INVESTIGATEMAGAZINE.TV

November 27, 2007

Aspartame: Sweet Little Lies, Sept 07 issue

SIDEBAR:

Of course the main reason aspartame is approved in New Zealand is because aspartame is approved in the United States. Aspartame is a heavily politicised issue because it is a major American corporate profit base worth billions of dollars and, as every New Zealand adult should know by now, we usually bend over backwards to please Uncle Sam.

We may pretend to be anti-nuclear, but even George Bush knows that’s a snow job kept in circulation to fox the natives. The USA maintains a major US National Security Agency spy base down at Black Birch Stream near Blenheim and US Central Intelligence Agency planes involved in “renditioning” suspected “terrorists” to torture chambers in North Africa and Afghanistan have been spotted flying in and out of the US Deep Freeze programme’s Harewood, Christchurch air base.

Sucking up to the USA is good politics. Monsanto and the corporate chemical industry have helped put every American president in power since the 2nd World War and good relations with the USA means keeping American corporates happy and ensuring their products pass through our regulatory process virtually automatically providing they have the FDA stamp of approval. In that respect NZFSA’s present acting CEO, Sandra Daly is kept completely in the dark. FSANZ is in the same position.

The immediate former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, is a central player in the aspartame approval drama, funnily enough, and the full story of what happened is like an episode out of The Sopranos, but I’ll try to keep it brief.

The scene opens on January 10, l977. FDA Chief legal Counsel Richard Merrill has been considering the huge list of violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, committed by G. D. Searle under the administration of former Ford White House Chief of Staff, Donald Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld has been trying to get his pet project, the super-sweet chemical aspartame, through the FDA’s approval process for a new food product.

Approval of the product is worth billions of dollars to Searle and a huge bonus for Rumsfeld. The problem is, the FDA’s scientific team consider the sweetener is a dangerous poison with the potential to kill. Not only this, but they have amassed a pile of evidence that Searle, with Rumsfeld’s obvious approval, have gone through vital laboratory test reports on aspartame safety, eliminating evidence that the product maimed, disabled and killed test animals.

All the evidence for Searle malpractice has been assembled by the FDA’s Jerome Bressler into an important document – now known as the Bressler Report – that anyone can read (it’s on the official Federal record and available on www.dorway.com). As a consequence, a Richard Merrill writes a 33-page letter, recommending to U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury investigate Searle for “apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.331(e), Act 18 USC 1001, for “their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act 21, U.S.C. 355 (i) and for concealing material facts and making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of (aspartame).” The legal machinery creaks into action, but the whole process is hampered by the fact that the corporate chemical industry pretty effectively controls Washington.

In the meantime it’s suddenly January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan, a former B-grade Hollywood actor takes office as U.S. President.

He’s sailed into the White House on a huge raft of election funding from corporate America and G. D. Searle in particular and the word is out that he will not forget his friends. Donald Rumsfeld is still G.D. Searle’s president and a firm Reagan favourite. Rumsfeld has been greasing Republican palms all round Washington for the past few years and telling the Searle sales force “he would call in all his markers and that no matter what, he would see to it that aspartame would be approved that year.” (5)

That same day G.D. Searle reapplied to the FDA for the approval of aspartame despite the fact that up-to-date this approval has been denied pending the prosecution of the company. No problem.

Reagan and Rumsfeld already have a staunch Republican hack ready for the job as new FDA Commissioner – Arthur Hayes, who in short order overrules the FDA’s own board of inquiry who have refused to approve aspartame and gives the product the FDA’s stamp of approval.

It’s well-known in Washington circles, however, that aspartame is not just any old political FDA approval, but is, in fact, a general signal to corporate America that Reagan means business and Big Business at that. The signal in particular, tells Big Business that from now on all the brakes are off, tricky regulations about silly things like public health and safety are gone for good and “Let’s get together and make money, boys!”

Arthur Hayes is quickly bored by his job at the FDA, at any rate, and before too long goes off to work for notorious PR flack firm Burson-Marsteller, who just coincidentally, you understand, happen to be retained by G.D. Searle! At about the same time, Federal attorney Sam Skinner – remember, he’s the one who’s been assigned to prosecute Searle for fraudulent tests in their original aspartame application? – gets “an offer he can’t refuse” from – Guess who! – Searle’s lawyers! – and goes off to work for them for a reputed $US1,000 per day, effectively sabotaging the whole Federal case and, of course, effectively ending any litigation threat against Searle for its deliberately falsified aspartame data.

The whole debauched exercise is the start of a long-standing criticism of US federal authorities – and the FDA in particular – that they have a “revolving door” relationship with G.D. Searle, Monsanto and the chemical industry in general. And, of course, as far as NZFSA and FSANZ is concerned this whole shoddy exercise just never happened. But it did, and it’s recorded in US Senate records. (5)

References:
1. Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., “Excitotoxins; The Taste That Kills”,
Health Press, Santa Fe, N.M. 87504, 1994.
2. John W. Olney and others, “Increasing Brain Tumor Rates: Is There a Link to Aspartame?” Journal Of Neuropathology And Experimental Neurology Vol. 55, No. 11 (November 1996), pgs.
1115-1123. James Bowen, M.D. “Aspartame Murders Infants in violation of Title 18, Chapter 50A, Sec 1091-3 of the Domestic Genocide Code” see . Also Dr. H.J. Roberts, “Does Aspartame Cause Human Brain Cancer?” Journal Of Advancement In Medicine Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1991), pgs. 231-241, and his book, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, Sunshine Sentinel Press, Florida, USA, 2001, Website: www.sunsentpress.com
3. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County, California early in 2004. They allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone’s vitamins, yoghurt and children’s aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic. Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).
4. Morando Soffritti, Fiorella Belpoggi, Davide Degli Esposti, Luca Lambertini, Eva Tibaldi, and Anna Rigano, Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy, “First Experimental Demonstration of the Multipotential Carcinogenic Effects of Aspartame Administered in the Feed to Sprague-Dawley Rats,” Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 114, Number 3, March 2006;
5. Gordon, Gregory, 1987. “NutraSweet: Questions Swirl,” UPI Investigative Report, 10/12/87. Reprinted in US Senate report (1987, page 483-510).
6. Dr. Woodrow C. Monte, “Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health,”
Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36, 1984, No. 1, page 42-54.
7 See Dr James Bowen on www.dorway.com aspartame website.
8. “Aspartame – Not for the Dieting Pilot?” Aviation Safety Digest, Spring 1989; Hicks, M., “Nutrasweet … too good to be true?” General Aviation News, July 1989; “High on High”, Plane & Pilot, January 1990.
9. ASPARTAME AND PILOTS – Position paper by Russell Blaylock, M.D., neurosurgeon on www.dorway.com in section “Aviation Dr. Blaylock’s position paper on aspartame and pilots.” Also see http://www.russellblaylockmd.com.
10. Pat Thomas, “Aspartame – The Shocking Story of the World’s Bestselling Sweetener,” The Ecologist, Vol. 35, No.7, September 2005, pages 35 – 46.
11. Nisperos-Carriedo, Myrna O., Philip E. Shaw, 1990. “Comparison of Volatile Flavour Components in Fresh and Processed Orange Juices,” Journal of Agriculture & Food Chemistry, Volume 38, page 1048-1052.

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