Temas: Indice - Index by Area. Las Pleyades - The Pleiades. The Shocking Story of How Aspartame Became Legal. It all starts in the mid 1960′s with a company called G.D. Searle. One of their chemists accidentally creates aspartame while trying to create a cure for stomach ulcers. Searle decides to put aspartame through a testing process which eventually leads to its approval by the FDA. Not long after, serious health effects begin to arise and G.D. Searle comes under fire for their testing practices. It is revealed that the testing process of Aspartame was among the worst the investigators had ever seen and that in fact the product was unsafe for use.
Aspartame triggers the first criminal investigation of a manufacturer put into place by the FDA in 1977. Early in 1981 Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (who is a former Secretary of Defense.. surprise surprise) vowed to “call in his markers,” to get it approved. It is clear to this point that if anything the safety of aspartame is incredibly shaky. December 1965– While working on an ulcer drug, James Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Here’s why tech companies’ NSA ‘transparency reports’ are mostly a PR stunt. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. (Susan Walsh/AP) Technology companies will soon be able to disclose more details about the number of national security orders and requests they receive, according to a joint statement from Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Under the new rules, companies will be allowed to reveal summaries of the aggregate numbers of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court orders and National Security Letters and the number of customer accounts targeted under those orders. As a result, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and Microsoft are dropping their petition to the FISA Court requesting the ability to tell consumers more about this type of data.
But that's all transparency reports produced by tech companies are about: good PR. But five months since the announcement, that data still hasn't been released. Google+ Is Walking Dead. Today, Google’s Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question is where this leaves Google+, Gundotra’s baby and primary project for the past several of those years. What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform — essentially ending its competition with other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. A Google representative has vehemently denied these claims.
“Today’s news has no impact on our Google+ strategy — we have an incredibly talented team that will continue to build great user experiences across Google+, Hangouts and Photos.” According to two sources, Google has apparently been reshuffling the teams that used to form the core of Google+, a group numbering between 1,000 and 1,200 employees. We hear that there’s a new building on campus, so many of those people are getting moved physically, as well — not necessarily due to Gundotra’s departure. Is Monsanto Giving Up On GMOs? Is genetically modified seed giant Monsanto doing the unthinkable and moving away from genetically modified seeds?
It sounds crazy, but hear me out. Let’s start with Monsanto's vegetable division, Seminis, which boasts it is the "largest developer and grower of vegetable seeds in the world. " Monsanto acknowledges Seminis has no new GM vegetables in development. According to a recent Wired piece, Seminis has has reverted instead to "good old-fashioned crossbreeding, the same technology that farmers have been using to optimize crops for millennia. " Why? The article points to people's growing avoidance of genetically modified foods. But the Wired piece also suggests a factor that doesn't get nearly enough attention: GM technology doesn't seem to be very good at generating complex traits like better flavor or more nutrients, the very attributes Monsanto was hoping to engineer into veggies. Furthermore, genetically modifying consumer crops proved to be inefficient and expensive. ContreInfo :: Informations Analyses Commentaires.