Marshall Dudley 9/4/03 9:15 AM Wrote: (in part ) > Interesting thing is that I contacted the epa about a year ago and asked if I > could sell aspertame as an ant poison. Apparently I cannot, I have to do > testing to determine that it is not too toxic for the environment. ********************** Really Marshall, when are you going to stop beating that dead horse? Aspartame is probably no more deadly than Vapor Trails, or do you subscribe to that urban legend also?
A quick check at: http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/nutrasweet.html supplies the following -- SYNOPSIS: The artificial sweetener aspartame, contained in products like Nutrasweet©, Equal© and many diet colas, causes a wide variety of ailments. See the email here. Is it true? No. Why? The Nutrasweet scaremail is so larded with claims that it is difficult sort fact from fiction from innuendo from the outrageous quackery. To refute every claim in the email would be tedious, we'll address just the central claims. Let's start with the 'facts' contained in the screed. When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to ... the rest is available,and more at the above listed URL. As you can probably see, I disagree with your position on aspartame. Jack -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
