It Wasn't Alzheimer's. It Was MSG.

Part memoire, part history, part exposé -- you will meet the men and women who manufacture and market toxic chemicals poured into food. Meet those who do research for pay, and learn how they rig their studies to conclude that they have not found MSG to be harmful, and how they get government, the media, and the medical community to do their bidding. Meet the man who supplied researchers with study designs and neurotoxic aspartame to use in placebos. And meet his friends at the FDA -- friends like Michael R. Taylor, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food and Tipper Gore’s cousin, who for years has moved through the revolving door between Monsanto, the USDA, the industry law firm of King and Spalding, and the FDA.

This is the story of one man’s battle to survive unlabeled poisons in food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and dietary supplements; poisons found even in infant formula. It’s a book for those who care about the toxic potential of MSG and/or aspartame, and those who have interest in the fine points of FDA/industry collusion.