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Dr Rao et al

ASPARTAME 1972 May report:

Dr Rao et al fed animals for 4 weeks

with SC 18862 (ASPARTAME)

Remarkably like the E2 report and

showing that EFSA does have a bizarre system of numbering the

research papers.

This comes earlier in the research than

E2 but later in the EFSA catalogue of papers.

No matter.

This looks a little bit like the later

study, different animals but often the same worrying signs; that of

the heavy coating in the stomach appears again.

This time far from weight gain we have

a refusal to eat. This contradicts the later work and hence shows a

disequilibrium in the eating patterns with some eating more and

risking obesity while others risk starvation.

Again you wont find anything so blunt

in the paper.

Feeding SC 18862 causes NO biologically

meaningful alteration in body weight, food consumption or gross

postmortem findings.

So there you have it:

NO refusal to eat.

NO problems with the stomach

But remember the idea is to get this

TOXIN into the food chain not KEEP IT OUT.

ASPARTAME 1972 May report:

Dr Rao et al

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