Toxic L-tryptophan: Shedding Light on a Mysterious Epidemic—Addendum: Comments by Scientists and Other Professionals

by William E. Crist

Includes:

• “A different perspective on GM food,” by David Schubert, M.D., professor, Salk Institute of Biological Studies, published by, and reprinted with permission of, Nature Biotechnology, October 2002 (Volume 20)
• Section on L-tryptophan from “Dietary Supplements and Their Discontents: FDA Regulation and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994,” by Joshua H. Beisler, Rutgers Law Journal, Winter 2000 
• ‘Is GM Food Devoid of DNA Safe?’ by Dr. Michael Antoniou, Reader in Molecular Genetics, UK, published by Nutritional Therapy Today, 1996
• “EMS Lawsuits” by Frank Silvestri and John Massicot, published by the National EMS Network Newsletter, June 2001 (Vol. 11, Issue 2, p. 6) 
• “The FDA Ban of L-tryptophan: Politics, Profits and Prozac,” by Dean Wolfe Manders, Social Policy, Winter 1995 (Vol. 26, No. 2)  
• “Deaths and Crippling from Genetically Engineered L-tryptophan,” website article by Philip J. Regal, PhD, University of Minnesota 
• Richard Strohman, PhD, University of California at Berkeley, comment on genetic engineering 
• Author’s letter to Dr. William Rolleston, chairman, The Life Sciences Network, New Zealand, May 15, 2005 
• Emails from Dr. Hans Fisher, professor of nutritional biochemistry, Rutgers University, April 27 & 30, 2001  

 

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