SPLENDA MANUFACTURERS BEING SUED FOR FALSE FACTS

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We all know by now that Saccharin & Aspartame have had their fair share of links to negative health issues...but now the artificial sweetener the public felt most confident in...SPLENDA..is also coming under fire.

Many opponents of SPLENDA are trying to make the manufacturers...JOHNSON & JOHNSON...take responsibility for what they feel is false and misleading advertising tactics. They believe that calling SPLENDA a natural sugar product is as far from the truth as you can get.

Read on for more details about SPLENDA and about the legal actions under way to get to the truth about what makes SPLENDA so sweet!

TRUTH ABOUT SPLENDA Website - http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com/?src=overture


LATEST NEWS LINK: SPLENDA MANUFACTURERS BEING SUED OVER MISLEADING REPRESENTATION OF PRODUCT -
http://www.nbc4i.com/health/4194771/detail.html


EXCERPT FROM: FACT CHECKER / THE TRUTH ABOUT SPLENDA WEBSITE

Fiction: Splenda is natural sugar without calories.

Fact: Johnson & Johnson claims that "Splenda is made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar". Johnson & Johnson wants consumers to think that it is natural sugar without calories. The truth is that Splenda is not natural and does not taste like sugar. The sweetness of Splenda derives from a chlorocarbon chemical that contains three atoms of chlorine in every one of its molecules.

The manufacturer of this chlorinated compound named it sucralose. The improper use of “ose” in the name creates the illusion that sucralose is natural like sucrose which is the precise name for table sugar. Johnson & Johnson wants consumers to believe that the taste of Splenda is due solely to natural sugar, that is, due to sucrose. However, the manufacturer has patented several chemical processes for making the chlorinated chemical compound it calls sucralose.

The patent literature illustrates that sucralose can be chemically manufactured from starting materials that do not require natural sugar. In one patent, for example, the manufacturer constructs sucralose from raffinose by substituting atoms of chlorine for hydroxyl groups in raffinose. Raffinose is a molecule found naturally in beans, and onions and other plants, but unlike natural sucrose, it has very little taste.

In another patented process three atoms of chlorine are substituted for three hydroxyl groups in sucrose. The end product of both of these manufacturing processes is an entirely new chlorocarbon chemical called sucralose. Each molecule of sucralose contains three atoms of chlorine which makes it 600 times sweeter than a natural molecule of sugar which contains no chlorine. Splenda has it’s own artificial taste which is due to this chlorinated compound.




Read on for more interesting information from Dr. Jay Adlersberg of ABC News, New York for the latest on SPLENDA:

Are Advertisers Over-Selling Splenda?
By Dr. Jay Adlersberg
(New York-WABC, Feb. 14, 2005)


Today, the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest joined with some agricultural groups to say the manufactures are misinforming the public about the reality of the popular sweetener, Splenda. Splenda is a popular no-calorie sweetener and a very popular alternative for anyone who doesn't want to use sugar.

It was approved by the FDA 7 years ago and is widely marketed with the slogan "made from sugar so it tastes like sugar," and that slogan is upsetting to these consumer and agriculture groups, who were talking to the press in Washington this morning.

Michael Jacobson, Center for Science in the Public Interest: "Made from sugar certainly sounds better than say made from chlorinated hydro carbons or made in a laboratory or fresh from the factory."

Dick Weiss, National Grange: "The truth is that Splenda is made with chlorine and the truth is Splenda is in fact a chemical artificial sweetener."

The critics say their survey found half of all users polled - forty seven percent - believed Splenda was a natural product.

Dr. Paul Lachance is a leading food scientist at Rutgers University. He said Splenda is made by adding chlorine molecules to sugar molecules to make a manufactured product called sucralose.

But while no one has claimed Splenda is unsafe, critics say many people do prefer not to use artificial products or may worry that problems could show up later.

Dr. Lachance says that's unlikely.

Dr. Paul Lachance, Rutgers University: "I know that's worrisome for some people and it's a possibility. But but when we see excretion of it it's hard to conceive any kind of problem. Certainly sugar molecules and chlorine and we have both in our bodies."

Again, no one has made any claims that Splenda is unsafe, but artificial products are a concern for many.

McNeil Nutritionals, Splenda's maker responded by saying they would not comment on the charges made today, but emphasized that consumers were aware that Splenda is "a no calorie sweetener." The controversy is now in the courts.

sounds like a bunch of angry sugar producers....lol

Splenda isn't made from sugar?

Good, because that's exactly what I want......

A sweetener that is NOT sugar.

I don't really care about mis-representation because I do my own research before I buy something to find out the truth. Take a look at all the supplements on the market. 99% of them are mis-represented with wild claims. It's all about learning and researching for yourself. Stupid & lazy people always end up trying to find a way to pass the blame for their own ignorance.

well splenda isnt the only thing in splenda in the first place. Its packaged with maltodextrin as a filler to take up space and add weight and as we all know maltodextrin is a sugar.

hahaahahaha.......i just eat tree bark and bump to Zylo...thats the truth bro....i dont read shit on the front of a box label....just the back.....

"You can always tell if whats inside is good, if you flip it over!"

that goes for women and food!!!!

executive thread

its highly flammable too! try it..lol

It sounds like the symptoms of scarlet fever to me. FDA~CIA~FBI and many other good researching to be very thorough. We have to remember what all theses agency are here to represent. The constitution of the amercan people and their families to PROTECT them from what is wrong. When mistakes are made the process of learning is to admit them. If people would stick to the facts of things instead covering up can save other people for it not to happen again. These agencies have the tools to protect the american people. If you allow people the thought of no matter what the do they can.... your changing the standards. There are professionals that are in our country that have lot of pride in those standards. Are sworn in to follow those standards that when other people come into our country it is a privledge and an honor to be here. That our standards an procedures should be respected.
Or are those boundries just what we are led to to think. there not here . Abuse and neglect is allowed depending on whos doing it. When all the other profesionals around them are working very hard to maintain those standards.

I knew there was something about that stuff I didn't trust. How many test/studies have these guys conducted, I wonder? Something made with chlorine cannot possibly be 100% safe. We don't know the long term effects of what can happen or if the body does something with those chlorine atoms. (Chlorine is poisonous by itself.) I think I'll take my chances with minimal amounts of real sugar, thank you very much.

chlorine i was cleaning with chlorine and i used ammonia with it and i couldnt breath then i remembered reading some where that was bad and when i read the lable it said that it was very dangerous. Just cleaning your house can have reactions.
People have to be informed...

i was working at a resterant and they were serving cold soup and in the soup they put a alcohol and the manager wasnt telling the patrons there was any alcoholin it I said you can do that you have to tell them they could get a reaction if there on any kind of medication.

As Dr. Janet Hull writes in her July newsletter, eating sucralose--brand name Splenda--is like ingesting tiny amounts of chlorinated pesticides. If this sounds unappealing to you, it certainly doesn't to Splenda's marketing team, who say they've "done a great job of redefining sweetness."

Splenda, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1988 as a tabletop sweetener and sweetener for an array of other products, is a chlorocarbon. Chlorocarbons are known to cause organ, genetic and reproductive damage, which may explain why Splenda has been found to shrink the thymus gland--a foundation of the immune system--by 40 percent.

According to Dr. Hull, sucralose also causes:

Swelling of the liver and kidneys
Calcification of the kidney
Fertility issues in male rates
Gastrointestinal problems in pregnant rats
It is especially important to stop using Splenda immediately if you experience kidney pain, cramping, swelling, an irritated bladder, or blood in your urine, she says. It is also interesting to note the information taken directly from a statement from the manufacturer of Splenda:

'Sucralose is made from sugar, but is derived from sucrose (sugar) through a process that selectively substitutes three atoms of chlorine for three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sucrose molecule. No artificial sweetener made in the laboratory is going to be neither natural to the body nor safer than unprocessed sugar.'

Splenda is approximately 600 times sweeter than sugar, but the sweetness is forced, not like a natural sugar the body uses for fuel, says Dr. Hull. And although corporations say Splenda is safe, they have said the same thing about aspartame, which is now linked to disease and obesity. They also claim that the chlorine atoms in Splenda are altered and therefore safe, yet it's known that any animal that eats chlorine (especially on a regular basis) is at risk of cancer.

The corporate researchers go on further to say that sucralose is the most tested food additive in history. They stated, verbatim, the same thing about aspartame and, according to Dr. Hull, consumers are witnessing the same state of affairs in many ways.