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A.  Overall Article Impression

1.  Article Bias

A person reading the article might believe that they
obtained a balanced picture aspartame issue. This is far
from the truth. What follows is a breakdown of the 11
scientific references cited by the author in the article:

   Category                              Reference #

   Research funded by NutraSweet Company 6 (Leon 1989)
                                         8 (Schiffman 1987)
   
   Researchers/Consultants
   for the NutraSweet Industry           1 (Stegink 1984a)
                                         8 (Schiffman 1987)
                                        10 (Moser 1994)
   
   Funded by Organizations connected with
   or given money by NutraSweet Company  4 (Roak-Foltz 1984)
                                         9 (Wolraich 1994)*
                                        11 (Garriga 1991)*
   
   AMA Council on Scientific Affairs     5 (AMA 1985)
   
   Unrelated to Aspartame                2 (Balon 1994)
   
   Independant Research on Aspartame     7 (Walton 1993)

     *The International Life Science Institute (ILSI)
     partially funded these studies. ILSI's connection
     to the NutraSweet Company is described later in
     this document).

The author of the article is well-aware of the importance of
keeping conflict-of-interest out of the field of Nutritional
Science as evidenced by his statements regarding "Vested
Interests" in his article entitled, "Nutrition: At the
Crossroads" (Liebovitz 1992). Yet, simply by looking at the
references cited in this article and the complete lack of
opposing viewpoints, one can conclude that the article
unintentionally become little more than an advertisement for
the NutraSweet Company.