- It was like pulling teeth to try to get Coke to admit
in email that they use
- aspartame in their soft drinks...
-
- Below, you will see the lengthily BS they sent to me..
never
- answering my 1st question.
-
- Finally, after being persistent, I got my answer...
-
-
- From: svtbass@hotmail.com
- Sent: 3/11/2003 10:48:57 AM
- To: coca-cola.support@na.ko.com
- Subject: Coca-Cola Web Form
-
- Is the sweetener in your diet coke really aspartame?
-
- Isn't that a poison?
-
- I have been drinking it for years and I would love to
hear the spin.
-
-
-
- From: "Coca-Cola Support" <coca-cola.support@na.ko.com>
- To: <svtbass@hotmail.com>
- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:14 PM
- Subject: RE: Coca-Cola Web Form
-
- We appreciate your interest in The Coca-Cola Company
and will respond to your email as quickly as possible.
-
- Your Thread ID is 1-188RWJ. Please refer to this ID
for future assistance on your message.
-
- We thank you for your patience.
-
- Sincerely,
- The Coca-Cola Company
-
-
-
- From: svtbass@hotmail.com
- Sent: 3/13/2003 8:53:26 AM
- To: "Coca-Cola Support" <coca-cola.support@na.ko.com>
- Subject: Coca-Cola Web Form
-
- No word yet ... I have been waiting for a response for
days... who is
- running that customer no service dept of yours??
-
- thank you
-
-
-
- From: "Coca-Cola Support" <coca-cola.support@na.ko.com>
- To: <svtbass@hotmail.com>
- Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 3:48 PM
- Subject: RE: Coca-Cola Web Form
-
- Thank you for contacting The Coca-Cola Company, Mr. Powers.
We appreciate your loyalty to diet Coke.
-
- Aspartame is a low-Calorie sweetener made primarily of
two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine. Amino acids, including
the two amino acids in aspartame, are the building blocks for proteins
and are found widely in nature in both plants and animals. The components
of aspartame are found naturally in a number of foods. Milk (8 oz., 403
mg) and chicken (3 oz., 1,026 mg) contain more phenylalanine than a soft
drink sweetened with aspartame (8 oz., ranges from approximately 10 to
85 mg). Aspartame is 180 to 200 times sweeter than sugar.
-
- Prior to its approval, aspartame underwent one of the
most thorough scientific reviews ever conducted. Regulatory bodies consider
it one of the most widely tested ingredients in the food supply. The safety
of aspartame has been affirmed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
and leading independent health groups such as the American Medical Association.
-
- As you know, regular Internet users are all too familiar
with the various scams and rumors that spread across the World Wide Web.
These messages sometimes pass along incorrect information of a serious
nature and, unfortunately, recipients have no way of assessing the strength
and reality of that information.
-
- A current email being passed around the Web falsely associates
a host of health risks with aspartame, the sweetener used in diet Coke
and many other products from other companies. This email claims that aspartame
causes a number of diseases--claims that are false. It is unfortunate that
the Internet's remarkable capacity to transmit information is being so
abused.
-
- We want you to know that every reliable piece of scientific
information we have identified shows that aspartame is a safe and suitable
sweetener that is used in hundreds of foods and beverages in more than
90 countries around the world. Aspartame is made primarily of two amino
acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine. Amino acids, including the two
amino acids in aspartame, are the building blocks for proteins and are
found widely in nature in both plants and animals. The components of aspartame
are found naturally in a number of foods. Milk (8 oz., 403 mg) and chicken
(3 oz., 1,026 mg) contain more phenylalanine than a soft drink sweetened
with aspartame (8 oz., ranges from approximately 10 to 85 mg).
-
- Prior to its approval, aspartame underwent one of the
most thorough scientific reviews ever conducted. National and international
regulatory bodies consider it one of the most widely tested ingredients
in the food supply. The safety of aspartame has been affirmed by the U.
S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and virtually every major independent
health group in the United States. Leading health groups who have formally
recognized the safety of aspartame include the American Medical Association,
the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Diabetes Association,
the Epilepsy Institute, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives
(JECFA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the European Union's
Scientific Committee for Food, Health Canada,and the World Health Organization
of the United Nations.
-
- Despite the irresponsible and unfounded rumors that are
now appearing on the Internet, we want to assure you that there is no scientific
information linking aspartame to any specific set of symptoms or diseases.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation on the Internet, and even
sometimes in the media, concerning the safety of foods and beverages.
-
- If you would like to learn more about aspartame and/or
obtain facts that specifically refute this rumor, we encourage you to contact
the following organizations via the Internet:
-
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- www.fda.gov
- phone (888) INFO FDA [(800) 463-6332]
-
- International Food Information Council
- www.ific.org
- phone (202) 296-6540
-
- NutraSweet Company
- www.nutrasweet.com
- phone (800) 321-7254
-
- National Soft Drink Association
- www.nsda.org
- phone (202) 463-6732
-
- Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
- www.msfocus.org/aspart.htm
- phone (800) 441-7055
-
- American Diabetes Association
- www.diabetes.org/ada/aspartame.asp
- phone (800) 342-2383
-
- Grocery Manufacturers of America
- www.gmabrands.com
-
- Ajinomoto
- www.aspartame.net
- phone (800) 511-6445
-
- American Cancer Society
- www.cancer.org
- (800) ACS 2345
-
- We sincerely appreciate hearing from a consumer such
as yourself. By all
- means, if you have any additional comments or questions,
please visit our
- Web site again.
-
- Chris
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Industry and Consumer Affairs
-
-
-
- From: svtbass@hotmail.com
- Sent: 3/16/2003 11:54:10 AM
- To: "Coca-Cola Support" <coca-cola.support@na.ko.com>
- Subject: Coca-Cola Web Form
-
- Wow, thanks... Your email was so full of junk, I could
not believe it.
-
- And I cannot find the answer to my question in your email
to me.
- I asked if you used aspartame and you gave me the World
Book Encyclopedia
- according to Coca-Cola's aspartame definition.
-
- So, all I wanted to know was if you use it in your product,
not all that
- scientific junk.
-
- Please respond to what I asked.
-
- Thank you,
- Kirk
-
-
-
- From: "Coca-Cola Support" <coca-cola.support@na.ko.com>
- To: <svtbass@hotmail.com>
- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:28 PM
- Subject: RE: Coca-Cola Web Form
-
- Thank you for contacting The Coca-Cola Company, Mr. Powers.
We appreciate
- your loyalty to diet Coke.
-
- We apologize if our response was a little verbose. Yes
we use Aspartame as a
- sweetener for diet Coke.
-
- Chris
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Industry and Consumer Affairs
-
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