RE: DU vs. Aspartame

["Pickett, Bruce D" <Bruce.Pickett@PSS.Boeing.com>]

According to the Urban Legends web page at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blasp.htm , the aspartame warning is a hoax. 

Bruce Pickett
The Boeing Company
bruce.d.pickett@boeing.com
    "And if I claim to be a wise man, 
      it surely means that I don't know" - Kansas



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> From: 	Michael S Ford[SMTP:MFORD@pantex.com]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Monday, February 08, 1999 7:26 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	DU vs. Aspartame
> 
> I know this may sound a bit weird, but I read a piece by an
> epidemiologist that was claiming a link between GWS and
> Aspartame (sp?) (e.g., Nutrasweet).
> 
> Perhaps some of our Gulf War veterans could comment on the
> accuracy of my accounting of the statements made by this
> researcher.....
> 
> 'Seems that above 120 degrees F (49 C), the Aspartame converts to
> formaldehyde.  This formaldehyde has been found in the brains of
> many lab animals and other research subjects.... and is linked to a
> whole litany of ailments... including the ringing in my ears.
> 
> This researcher notes that it was common practice to store crates of
> sodas in the desert sun where they would exceed 120 F.  'Seems like
> 'hot sodas' would be a more common mode of exposure than DU.
> 
> Has anyone heard similar statements?
> v/r
> Michael
> mford@pantex.com
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