| by Jeffrey Caldwell (Redwood City, California) |
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| Technically, the correct chemical name for “sucralose” — a popular ‘sugar substitute’ – is “1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside” (!) Sucralose is a common ingredient in “light” calorie foods. “Sucralose” is a generic trade name for Splenda*, the artificial sweetener advertised as “made from sugar”. The “ose” ending is standard in chemistry for real sugars, such as sucrose, glucose, or dextrose. But sucralose is actually a sweet-tasting chlorinated hydrocarbon. Sucralose is an official nickname coined to sell the chlorinated hydrocarbon “1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside” as a sugar substitute. Splenda — “1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside” — is indeed made from sugar – by means of a complicated patented chemical engineering process that requires the use of many highly toxic chemicals. The patented process that transforms sugar into what is called sucralose involves: trityl chloride, dimethylformamide, 4-methylmorpholine, acetic anhydride, hydrogen chlorine, toluene, methyl isobutyl ketone, acetic acid, thionyl chloride, benzyltriethlyammonium chloride, methanol and sodium methoxide! The standard chemical term for sucralose is “1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside”! The nickname — “sucralose” — saves a lot of food ingredient label ink. “Sucralose” is the only chlorinated hydrocarbon expressly offered as food (many of the rest are pesticides) – huge profits can be had from artificial sweeteners! Trace amounts of contaminants from the “sucralose” manufacturing process inevitably come along with the “sucralose” and may be more dangerous to the body than the “sucralose” itself. Once manufactured and mixed in food, “sucralose” itself also inevitably degrades into other compounds not normally found in wholesome food. Making “sucralose” is not a “Green” process: the Tate & Lyle “sucralose” plant in McIntosh, Alabama releases about 200,000 pounds “suspected toxicants” into the water and air annually. Residents in the area do not consider it a safe neighbor, and hundreds gathered to protest plans to double the capacity of the plant in 2006! “Sucralose” – that is,1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside – as produced by Splenda International Patent A23L001 – has, of course, been cleared as safe to eat by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the government of the United States of America. I do not trust FDA assessments of the safety of chemical products with huge profit potential if declared “safe”. For a sane appraisal of how much confidence we can have specifically in current FDA approvals of highly profitable chemicals, consider the July 20, 2006, article on the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Web site: “FDA Scientists Pressured to Exclude, Alter Findings, Scientists Fear Retaliation for Voicing Safety Concerns” https://www.ucsusa.org/about/news Of the 997 scientists who responded to the survey, nearly one-fifth said that they “have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information or their conclusions in a FDA scientific document”! Furthermore: “The UCS survey, which was co-sponsored by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, was sent to 5,918 FDA scientists. Forty percent of respondents fear retaliation for voicing safety concerns in public. This fear, scientists say, combines with other pressures to compromise the agency’s ability to protect public health and safety. More than a third of the respondents did not feel they could express safety concerns even inside the agency”! A more recent press release by the UCS, 23 April 2008: “Survey Reveals Widespread Political Interference at the FDA” is no more comforting. There continue to be disquieting discrepancies between what FDA scientists discover and what the FDA decrees! I question the safety of man-made “food” items. The public was aggressively “sold” hydrogenated fats as a perfectly safe and fine food since 1911, and it was over 90 years before their considerable health dangers became front page news. Trans-fats made their producers over 100 billion dollars a year at the zenith of their popularity. I learned a lot about sucralose and aspartame from a well-documented muckraking book by Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Kendra Degen Pearsall: Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health (2006). The film Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World (2004) – a “riveting documentary” (Netflix) — probes the health problems — including fatalities — caused by aspartame (Nutrasweet) and the flawed process by which it was approved for use as an artificial sweetener. Getting its approval for industry was a landmark in Donald Rumsfeld’s rise to power! It will be a while before the dangers and disadvantages of today’s popular man-made “food products” become common knowledge. Suppressing the truth for profit is the standard operating procedure for the powers of this present evil world – well documented in a film I’d love everyone to see: The Corporation (2004). I found all of its DVD extras worthwhile. Watching the film and its special features helped me understand the world. As for me, I avoid ingesting 1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside! |
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