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file fraud charges and let the statute of limitations run out on any fraud that had been committed
by Searle. Fifteen months later Conlon was hired by Searle's law firm as well.
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A month after Skinner left the Attorney General's office, the FDA released the scathing
Bressler Report which reported the finding of Bressler's FDA task force.
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The report made
many startling disclosures including:
1)
Slides from autopsy reports were examined in a sample of 42 percent of the animals and 18
percent were found to have inconsistencies with the autopsy reports. The report stated, “In
most cases the inconsistencies represent findings that were not diagnosed or reported by
Searle.” Three were found to have unreported ovarian tumors and at least two others had other
unreported growths.
2)
In several instances pathology sheets reported that organs were missing and therefore could
not be examined. Yet, in three of these instances a diagnosis was provided to the FDA.
3)
Records were altered before being submitted to the FDA. The report stated: “Records for
approximately 30 animals showed substantial differences between gross observations on
pathology sheets, when compared with the gross observations on pathology sheets submitted
to FDA.”
4)
One animal was reported to have died and then 16-weeks later it was reported to be alive and
then 4-weeks later it was reported dead again.
5)
In on study of 198 animals conducted by Searle, 98 of the animals died but autopsies were
delayed. Some were delayed for as much as a year or more. Many of the animal's organs were
liquefied which made autopsies incapable of finding tumors.
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6)
Searle scientist also removed aspartame-induced brain tumors from rats that had developed
the tumors during their studies and then placed them back into the study. If the rats later died,
they would be resurrected on paper according to Bressler.
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7)
Bressler admitted to Dr. Betty Martini, and Doctors H.J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock in a
personal interview that the FDA removed 20% of the most damaging data from his report.
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In 1979, nearly two years after the release of the Bressler Report, the FDA appointed a
Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) to make a ruling on the safety of aspartame. A little over a year
later the PBOI determined by a unanimous vote
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that aspartame should not be approved and
that further investigations should be conducted regarding brain tumors in animals. The board
officially concluded that it had “not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that
aspartame is safe for use as a food additive.” It further stated that aspartame “may contribute to
the development of brain tumors.” The PBOI “ordered that G.W. Searle Company's petition for
aspartame approval be withdrawn.”
After being elected President, Ronald Reagan appointed Searle CEO, Donald Rumsfeld
to his transition team.
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The day after President Reagan was sworn into office in 1981, he issued
an executive order suspending the FDA commissioners authority to take any action. That same
day Searle reapplied to the FDA to have aspartame approved as a food additive.
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President
Reagan then appointed Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr. as the new FDA commissioner. Dr. Hayes quickly
approved aspartame for use in all dry foods overruling the PBOI and his own scientists.
Under the previous FDA commissioner, a panel of five FDA scientists had been
assembled to review the issue of whether aspartame caused brain tumors. Based on the evidence,
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