The answer is YES...
by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Neotame is but aspartame under a different name and Neotame has similar structure to aspartame with the exception that, from it's structure, it appears to be even more toxic than aspartame.
Like aspartame, some of the concerns include gradual neurotoxic and immunotoxic damage from the combination of the formaldehyde metabolite (which is toxic at extremely low doses) and the excitotoxic amino acid.
Given all of the suffering being caused by Monsanto's aspartame, the prudent course would be to start out with the assumption that it may cause toxic damage or cancer from long-term exposure and conduct many thorough, long-term, and independent human studies to see the effects.
Even Monsanto's own pre-approval studies of neotame revealed adverse reactions but, unfortunately, Monsanto only conducted a few one-day studies in humans rather than encouraging independent researchers to obtain NIH funding to conduct long-term human studies on the effects of neotame. But then, that should not surprise us with Monsanto; their only interest is in getting the products licensed and on the market to make big bucks.
Considering all of the problems with aspartame industry research and scientific abuse, it is clear that any neotame research that Monsanto, industry groups, or consultants or research friends of Monsanto have any part of should be rejected until such a time that more trustworthy, independent research can be conducted. Such experiments should include independent animals studies and especially long-term (e.g., 4-5 years+) human studies in various susceptible population groups.
What is likely to happen, however, is:
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Monsanto's subsidiary, the FDA, will accept Monsanto research as if it were legitimate.
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Monsanto will given money to their research consultants at various institutions (rather than NIH funding of truly independent researchers) to repeat poorly designed tests and "confirm" neotame safety. This is what they did with aspartame so that they could claim safety.
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The FDA and Monsanto will claim that "comprehensive" research [by Monsanto consultants] at various institutions proves that neotame is safe. There will be a lot of press releases, PR statements from their friends in the research community, and from organizations they fund (e.g., IFIC, ADA, etc.). This will be a time of a massive PR blitz. Please see "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You" for information on these techniques.
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The FDA will claim to track adverse reaction reports. But they made the same claim when they told people that had received only 16 aspartame toxicity reaction reports in 1996, but refused to tell people that they stopped taking such adverse reaction reports in early 1996.
It must be understood by now by most bar the totally ignorant ones that the FDA has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Monsanto Corp and thus should have nothing to do with licensing anything, whether from Monsanto or others, but should be disbanded forthwith.
Hopefully, by the time neotame has bee approved, a very large percentage of the population will have switched to healthy sweeteners, gotten off unhealthy or toxic sodas and made a unwavering decision not to become a guinea pig for another one of Monsanto's toxic sweeteners no matter what organizations or trade groups Monsanto can pay $$$ to get their approval. In the EU it has already been licensed, so it is understood, as E961.
The big question that has to be asked is why play about with this kind of artificial sweeteners anyway, I mean for you as individual. There are natural sugars, and one is cane sugar, the other one beet sugar and it is only the overuse of those that will give grief.
Then there is honey, the best source of natural sugar, and last but not least there is the plant sweetener, namely Stevia.
So, who needs Monsanto and its artificial sweeteners. Let's tell them where to get off, and as far as Monsanto and others are concerned, preferably tell them to get off the Planet.
Aspartame has come to be known as a poison and a neural pathway agent and it can but be assumed that, from structure and all, neotame is going to be doing much of the same if not worse. One can but ask what the powers-that-be, by allowing such stuff to be used, have in mind. A bit also like putting fluoride into the drinking water.
© 2011
