Joyce Wilson, a real estate agent in Stockbridge, Georgia, said she began suffering from high blood pressure, dizziness and other ill effects in 1982 after using Equal in her coffee and eating NutraSweet-flavored puddings. She said that in 1984 and 1985, she lost some vision.
“I’m not blaming this all on NutraSweet,” Wilson said. “I’m just saying it’s a strange coincidence that when I started using it, I started falling apart.”
Dr. Morgan Raiford, an ophthalmologist at Emory University examined Wilson and believes her problems stem from consumption of the methyl alcohol in NutraSweet. Reported by Gregory Gordon, UPI Investigative Reporter