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Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Neotame, New Neurotoxic Sweetener: FDA Says No Label Needed, Not Even in Organics

Author:     HEIDI STEVENSON
Source:     Locals Supporting Locals
Publication Date:     2-Jan-11
 Link: Neotame, New Neurotoxic Sweetener: FDA Says No Label Needed, Not Even in Organics
Stephan:   Here we have yet another failure of the Obama Administration. It seems to me that almost every month we have some kind of failure in the food, pollution- control, or drug sectors arising from a lack of proper regulation. Increasingly, if one wishes to eat healthy food, one is going to have to grow it, or get it from a local supplier whose standards one can know and check.

A Monsanto-created chemical, Neotame is likely more toxic than Aspartame. The FDA has quietly decided that we don’t have the right to know if it’s adulterating our food, not even if the food is labeled USDA Organic.

Aspartame can step aside. There’s a new sweetener in town and it isn’t saddled with the inconvenience of having to be listed on labels, so it can be sneaked into any prepared food, even USDA so-called Organic. So sayeth the FDA. Neotame is a Monsanto-created chemical similar to Aspartame, including its neurotoxic properties.

Monsanto developed Neotame as their Aspartame patent was expiring, and had no trouble in gaining FDA approval in 2002. They added 3-dimethylbutyl, a chemical listed as hazardous by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to Aspartame, making it both sweeter and more toxic.

Toxicity

Both Aspartame and Neotame contain substances that are metabolized into formaldehyde, a highly toxic poison, and an excitotoxic amino acid that agitates, thereby damaging, nerves.

At the time Neotame was originally approved by the FDA, Feingold.org, which battles the addition of many dodgy food additives, stated:

We did a search of MedLine to find studies of adverse effects or side effects of Neotame. Only four studies appeared, two of […]

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