We were flooding Dr. Friedman with case histories, but they were never reported in the FDA report of complaints. And even in congressional hearings, it was admitted the FDA was referring aspartame complaints to the AIDS Hotline to get rid of them. When he defended Monsanto, I couldn't help but think one day they would reward him. His reward came in June 1999 when they hired him.

In Atlanta, Georgia, in l998 I attended an International Conference on Unexplained Emerging Epidemics, attended by the Communicable Disease Center, physicians and scientists from 91 countries, and the global press. I couldn't help but remember the prophecy in Dr. Robert's book as I distributed his information declaring aspartame disease a world plague. I also distributed a paper exposing the CDC for their part in the cover-up. In l984 they investigated complaints and reported such symptoms as aggressive behavior, disorientation, hyperactivity, extreme numbness, excitability, memory loss, loss of depth-perception, liver impairment, cardiac arrest, seizures, suicidal tendencies, severe mood swings, and death! They recommended further investigations of the neurological and behavioral problems. Perhaps aspartame would not be on the market today if Frederick L. Trowbridge had not added an executive summary to the report which conflicted with the information in the report, stating: "Currently available information, based on data with limitations as described in the report, indicated a wide variety of complaints that are generally of a mild nature." As usual, only the summary was widely circulated. I told Dr. Satcher, who headed the CDC before he became Surgeon General, if he didn't remove the summary, I would put the entire document on the Web for the whole world to read. He didn't and I did, and it can now be read on Dorway.

It's hard to believe anyone associated with the approval of aspartame didn't know the gun was loaded. Glutamate researchers used aspartame as a placebo in studies so they could say MSG wouldn't react anymore than the placebo. MSG is also an excitotoxin, as discussed in Dr. Blaylock's book Excitotoxins. In l993 Jack Samuels, President of the Truth in Labeling Campaign, was reviewing FDA docket files relating to an FDA study on the safety of amino acids in supplements. In the files, he found a letter dated March 22, l991, from Andrew G. Ebert, PhD, Chairman, International Glutamate Technical Committee—a glutamate industry organization—in which Ebert admitted that aspartame had been used since at least l978 in test and placebo materials that his organization provided to scientists who study the safety of MSG.

A review of studies conducted with the above-referenced test material clearly indicates that some subjects reacted to both MSG test material and placebo material. Scientists conducting such studies concluded that since subjects reacted to both MSG and placebos, their reactions were not from MSG. Even though such logic is highly questionable, we now know that subjects reacted to placebos because of the presence of aspartame, an additive that causes MSG-type responses in MSG-sensitive people. Because of the disclosure of the use of aspartame in placebo material by Jack Samuels, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in its July l995 report on the safety of MSG in food, concluded that the use of aspartame in placebo materials was inappropriate.

All the articles, all the TV shows, and all the organizations warning the public could not bring Monsanto Chemical Company to its knees, although I believe getting out the warning has saved the lives of thousands of people. But at the end of l998 something happened that even Monsanto and the FDA could not contain—the email that made world news.

In l995 I had lectured for the World Environmental Conference sponsored by the Department of Environmental Justice of the EPA through a grant. Dr. Clarice Gaylord gave the keynote address and said: "We have an epidemic of MS and lupus and cannot identify the toxin." I answered: "I'm Betty Martini of Mission Possible International, and I'm here to lecture on MS and lupus and identify the toxin as NutraSweet." When I returned to Atlanta I wrote about this conference and the epidemic on a neurological list headed by a Dr. Rivner. I put on the list a position paper by Dr. Roberts titled Multiple Sclerosis or Aspartame Disease? and material on the subject by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, explaining that aspartame disease mimics multiple sclerosis. I also discussed many of the other problems it triggers. The post was put on the Web at Dorway, where it still remains today.

A person calling herself Nancy Markle published the article under her name, changing the title and some of the wording. John Smith saw it in the UK and sent it to a global networker in Clarkston, Georgia—Shoshanna Allison. Shoshanna's marriage had been shattered when her husband developed lupus and the usual mood swings from aspartame. She didn't want it to happen to anyone else, so with the help of Jean Hudon in Canada, she put the post in cyberspace, and it made world news. Today Shoshanna is dubbed Paula Revere for firing the shot heard around the world.

Who could have predicted what would happen as this post was sent to hospitals, clinics, doctors, media, corporations, and victims? It didn't take long for people to realize I was the author, as all you had to do was search the Web for "aspartame" to find Dorway and read the original article. My phone wouldn't stop ringing, and finally I had to remove call waiting because it was impossible to talk to two people at once all day long and do radio shows. Over a year and a half later, the phone still has not stopped ringing. Articles continue to be written, some exposing the truth, while others simply repeat industry-influenced lies. I believe thousands have been yanked from the jaws of death.