Dear Nancy Perry: I enjoyed your email (I have an herb garden too) and I was very interested to read about Nutrasweet. I have been using it for years. My neuro told me it was not a problem several years ago. What is Nutrasweet Poisoning? What were you told? ("We had been told that the nutrasweet/aspertane affected parkinson's too"). Did you have any side effects besides a bettering of your illnesses when you stopped? Best, Liz S.