FDA dismisses doctor’s dire warning about the true nature of aspartame

“Aspartame has a long, well-documented legacy showing it is both a neurotoxin and carcinogen that should never, ever have been approved to be fit for human consumption.”

That’s what a pediatrician in New Mexico is warning about the artificial sweetener.

But he’s not just telling that to the parents of his patients. He’s making his argument to the FDA.

Five years ago, Dr. Paul Stoller sent in a citizen’s petition to the agency. He asked that the FDA commissioner “withdraw approval” for aspartame as it’s been shown “and has always been known” to cause cancer.

Dr. Stoller included research telling how the artificial sweetener is a carcinogen. And he also detailed how GD Searle, the company that first put it on the market, did “fraudulent” research to get it there.

He also claimed that during the original aspartame studies, rats with brain tumors were not reported. Not only that, but their tumors were removed. And when the rats died, they were “resurrected” again on paper.

His petition also detailed lame Congressional hearings, botched FDA investigations and all of the other tricks that were played to get aspartame into our food supply.

Finally, at the beginning of November, more than five years after his petition was submitted, the FDA got back to him.

The agency said not to worry. That it’s right on top of all the information, studies and reports about aspartame. And it has not seen a thing that will make it change its mind about the “safety” of the artificial sweetener.

And…that Dr. Stoller should send in more data!

Dr. Stoller called it “all subterfuge.”

“They want me to spoon feed them everything so they can take five years to get back to me again…really?” he said.

But it looks like the toxic sweetener might be on the way out anyway — only this time through the back door.

Consumer demand — or lack of demand — is causing more and more companies to ditch it from their ingredient lists.

But until the day when it’s completely gone, you have to be your own watchdog.

Because there is no reason — not one — to ever touch a drop of aspartame.

Ever.

Sources:
“FDA rejects calls for aspartame ban: ‘No new credible scientific evidence has been presented'” Elaine Watson, November 5, 2014, Food Navigator, foodnavigator-usa.com