Aspartame made with GM Bacteria

Anthony Gucciardi

The manufacturers of the most prevalent sweetener in the world have a secret, and it’s not a sweet one. Aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in thousands of products worldwide, has been found to be created using genetically modified (GM) bacteria. What`s even more shocking is how long this information has been known. A 1999 article by The Independent was the first to expose the abominable process in which aspartame was created. Ironically, the discovery was made around the same time as rich leaders around the globe met at the G8 Summit to discuss the safety of GM foods.

The 1999 investigation found that Monsanto, the largest biotech corporation in the world, often used GM bacteria to produce aspartame in their US production plants. The end result is a fusion between two of the largest health hazards to ever hit the food industry — artificial sweeteners and an array of genetically altered organisms. Both have led to large-scale debate, with aspartame being the subject of multiple congressional hearings and scientific criticism. Scientists and health advocates are not the only ones to speak out against aspartame, however. The FDA received a flurry of complaints from consumers using NutraSweet, a product containing aspartame. Since 1992, the FDA has stopped documenting reports on the subject.

The process in which aspartame is created involves combining an amino acid known as phenylalanine with aspartic acid. First synthesized in 1965, aspartame requires bacteria for the sole purpose of producing phenylalanine. Monsanto discovered that through genetically altering this bacteria, phenylalanine could be created much more quickly. In the report by The Independent, Monsanto openly admitted that their mutated bacteria is a staple in the creation process of aspartame.

“We have two strains of bacteria – one is traditionally modified and one is genetically modified,” said the source from Monsanto. “It’s got a modified enzyme. It has one amino acid different.”

Multiple studies have been conducted regarding genetic manipulation, with many grim conclusions. One study found that the more GM corn was fed to mice, the fewer babies they had. Another study, published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences, found that the organs that typically respond to chemical food poisoning were the first to encounter problems after subjects consumed GM foods. The same study also states that GM foods should not be commercialized.

“For the first time in the world, we’ve proven that GMO are neither sufficiently healthy nor proper to be commercialized. [...] Each time, for all three GMOs, the kidneys and liver, which are the main organs that react to a chemical food poisoning, had problems,” indicated Gilles-Eric Seralini, an expert member of the Commission for Biotechnology Reevaluation.

Consumer groups are now curious as to whether or not other products secretly contain genetically modified ingredients. Due to the fact that the finished product`s DNA does not change when using genetically modified bacteria, it is hard to know for sure. With the FDA ruling against the labeling of GM salmon, it is becoming more of a challenge to determine whether or not a product contains GM ingredients. Consumers are voicing their opposition for GM ingredients going incognito, with the largest growing retail brand being GMO-free products.

“The public wants to know and the public has a right to know,” said Marion Nestle, a professor in the Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health Department at New York University.

Unveiling the secret process in which aspartame is created acts as yet another reminder to stay away from artificial sweeteners, and one should choose natural alternatives such as palm sugar, xylitol, or stevia.

Sources:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w…
http://www.biosicherheit.de/pdf/akt… (PDF)
http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy…
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire…

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One Response to Aspartame made with GM Bacteria

  1. MadeleineT says:

    Aspertame is in almost everything you buy, in cookies candy , gum , soda and sometims they have it in there with sugar and High fructose corn syrup, I am allergic to it so I have to read all the labels , it effects my legs and my feet when I eat it. I see people buying sugar free yogurt and health foods and I wonder how healthy they could be with that stuff in it. You always know when Monsanto has been around a company, it suddenly adds aspertame to their product. Mexican soda was the best when it first came into this country, I bought it all the time, one day I noticed it tasted different and I looked at the label and sure enough, aspertame along with the sugar, why would you need both? When Monsanto started playing around wiht our food I noticed several items that i always used tasted different, bisquick, Thomases English Muffins, aunt Jemima pancake mix, a different taste and a differet texture, GM flour was the culprit there. There is a monsanto product in everything, did you ever read the label on a loaf of bread? I’ve never seen so mny ingredients in somehting that has 4 ingredients when it comes out of a foreign backery. I eat the foreign bread. If anyone is having trouble with their feet, pain in the heels and if your legs lock up and are painful or dizziness and vertigo , check your labels , it could be aspertame or any artificial sweetner, they all belong to Monsanto anyway. Kids can not tolerate this stuff for very long belfore they get irratable bowl syndrome or some other intenstinal problem , genetically engineered food lays in their intestines and even changes their DNA, it causes an awful lot of problems for kids. Read the labels, avoid anything with apspertame in it , if you can manage it , do the same with the high fructose corn syrup , believe it or not , both of those products are extremely fattening, this is something Michele
    Obama obviously doesn’t know. 1 spoonful of High fructose corn syrup is equivalent to 3 table spoons of sugar and aspertame is fattening and addictive. Press in key word and those two names and read up on all the problems with these two substances, not good. The FDA wants high fructose corn syrup removed form everything, so far I haven’t seen any changes.

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