Artificial Sweetener Companies Battle Each Other In Court

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healthstar — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:13:28 GMT

I am so glad that they will finally be tested! We have been decieved long enough! The public needs to know the truth about Splenda!

Mirdza
Helping People Lead Healthier Lives

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Jonathan B — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:47:23 GMT

" Splenda versus Equal" Sounds like a lawsuit between Dracula and the Wolf Man to determine who shall reign supreme.

If these substances were not so darn toxic, and being salted into every conceivable processed food, this lawsuit would almost be funny, but I suspect that this will ultimately result in some big settlement, and a push to sell product by both companies.

If I were a bit more paranoid, I would begin to wonder why big Corporations are so fixated on putting toxins in our food supply.

The fact is, I have not really heard any sane explanation as to why our water supply has a toxin like flouride in it, just to help teeth, or chlorine, a toxic gas, just to have a less expensive way of killing germs from the water supply. I guess filtering and distiling the water supply to get the beasties out is just too darn much hassle.

Of course, I am still scratching my head, after growing up on sci-fi about the dangers of genetic mutation, as to why Monsanto et. al. feel so comfy about puttng human genes in animals and plants to make cheaper medicine, or growing GM foods that NO ONE has done any long term studies as to safety.

These goobers clearly did not see the "Food of the Gods" series, in which altered foods grew animals, rats, and children to massive size.

I guess that those whom the Gods would destroy, they would first make greedy.

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Melissa Kelly — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:48:13 GMT

So, it takes a big artificial sweetener company getting jealous of the sales other the other "poison producing company" to actually get the truth out. Doctors and people in general can rattle off laundry lists of adverse health effects of these products and no one pays attention until another company with the same interests gets involved! Once again about the almighty dollar! I am glad that the information will finally be available to more of the general public. But, it is through a sad way... the way of competition with motive. Here's to stevia!!!!

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Spritelymhe — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:21:51 GMT

I read "Sweet Deception", an eye opening book on the dangers of Splenda along with all the other artificial sweeteners. I strongly recommend this to everyone and share this book with as many as I can.

Unfortunately, the general public is so duped into believing if it's on the shelves it's safe that convincing them otherwise is a challenge.

A word to the wise... Curves, the fitness center for women, with over 10,000 locations worldwide has just begun promoting Splenda. Actually, I believe Splenda in an effort to really gain more of a hedge into the family grocery buying market has duped the franchiser into some joint marketing strategies ... an arrangement that is sure to affect many womens decisions as they unknowingly purchase Splenda containing groceries for their families, thinking they're doing a "good thing". Many gyms are also adding Splenda to their Protein Shakes or sucrolose ... be certain to check the ingredients in those products.

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emm76 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:09:11 GMT

When I first saw this on the news, my first thought was, "Is this a publicity stunt to try and prove Splenda's safe"? I guess only time will tell how this one will turn out. It would be funny though if Equal proved Splenda unsafe and Splenda filed a counter suit and proved Equal unsafe. Unlikely, but it would be cool......

While on the subject of chemical sweeteners, I'm amazed at how many products are being laced with Acesulfame potassium. In the "healthy" products that contain it, on the list of ingredients it is usually intertwined with the vitamins and minerals that have been added. (So unknowing consumers think it is a potassium supplement?) But this stuff is everywhere! Wikipedia has a pretty good write up on it and lists a lot of products that contain it.

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Dr. David Spitz — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:52:40 GMT

The argument that something is made from natural ingredients, but "altered in a multi-step process" should make all who read it take a moment to think.

Nuclear weapons are made with things "found in nature" and via a multi-step process....whamo a bomb!

The anectodal evidence against these artificial sweeteners (their words, and I agree) is overwhelming. In addition, real evidence is mounting that they are not safe as the lies say.

I go back to what I always say....use common sense. Did our paleolithic ancestors use artificial sweeteners or did they drink, oh let me think, water?

Let's stop kidding ourselves. We want our cake and want to eat it too. We either WANT to be healthy, or we want to live the illusion and fool ourselves that diet coke and their friends are ok.

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proatc — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:41:01 GMT

5:2 Odds Splenda wins.

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Russ Bianchi — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:06:36 GMT

To borrow from Ralph Nader's title, 'Unsafe At Any Speed', perhaps the wise judge's ruling(s) with go down in the annuals of legal decisions as the 'Unsafe At Any Dosage' precedent?

Splenda/sucralose, as any regular reader of mercola.com can tell you, if you are new to this blog site, is a chemically synthesized POISON that is HIGHLY TOXIC!

If you have not read Dr. Mercola's definitive empirical treatise on the subject, entitled: SWEET DECEPTION, get it (to borrow my father-in-law's coined phrase: '"immediately, if not sooner") to protect your family, friends, and your own health!!!

Representations that Splenda can be used for home baking or cooking are FLAT OUT LIES, and it turns any baked good into ceramic material, WITH NO CALORIC SAVINGS, at much higher pricing than regular sugar, and much more CAUSTIC in metabolization to ANYONE!

Splenda is NOT safe for hypoglycemics or diabetics!!!

I find it amusing that a former Monsanto company (Nutrasweet/Equal) is suing McNeil over false representations, though this is the moral, legal, factual, and ethical equivalent of Joe Stalin saying Adolph Hitler is a bad man.

A brief explanation on the above assertion, aspartame is a proven neuro toxin, which is the high intensity sweeteners in Equal and Nutrasweet toxic brands.

The take away message here for EVERYONE is not to use ANY of these highly poisonous products, at any level, and such a result is already happening as Splenda retail sales are flat out imploding, and McNeil is no where near their projected sales numbers for use.

In all this litigation, the central issue of why these poisons are being approved for human use at FDA remains uncorrected, and I urge everyone to write their US Senators and Congresspersons, who are DIRECTLY responsible, for allowing the FDA to remain HIGHLY CORRUPT in such regulatory approval.