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Re: WARNING! Aspartame (Nutrasweet) in Kid's Vitamins.

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From: Bill Bixby
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00
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Betty Martini <betty@noel.pd.org> writes:

| Just thought you would like to know one child went blind in one eye and 
| they took Flintstone vitamins back to the store because they found out it 
| had aspartame in it.  Since the wood alcohol in aspartame does cause 
| blindness and cases are really piling up and the child was taking only 
| vitamins with aspartame pretty sure that was it.

| We're trying to get health food stores to ban products with NutraSweet 
| and I've already written to the NNFA - National Nutrition Food Alliance.

| Regards,
| Betty

| P.S.  They are now putting them in other products like Fresca and 
| Wintergum gum - you have to really watch out.  They know it never was a 
| diet food anyway, and now they putting it in all kinds of products - they 
| know also it is addicting.

	Kookoo for Coco Puffs. 
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Subject: Re: WARNING! Aspartame (Nutrasweet) in Kid's Vitamins.
Date: 1996/05/18
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