childs associates predecessor g.d. searle founded 1985 as a division of monsanto company headquarters chicago illinois usa key people craig r. petray chief executive officer products aspartame and neotame website www.nutrasweet.com the nutrasweet company is an american nutrient company that produces and markets nutrasweet their trademarked brand name for the artificial sweeteners aspartame and neotame . the nutrasweet company states that its product is used in more than 5 000 products and consumed by some 250 million people worldwide . 1 aspartame was invented by chemists at g. d. searle & company in 1965 . 2 searle was bought by monsanto in 1985 . 3 in march 2000 monsanto which was then a subsidiary of the pharmacia corporation sold nutrasweet to the private equity firm j.w. childs . 2 see also edit aspartame aspartame controversy merisant a different company that also makes sugar substitutes including equal another aspartame based product sugar substitute sweet n low references edit nutrasweet.com a b the nutrasweet company . nutrasweet company company profile . retrieved 2009 05 18 . ny times report v t e e numbers 950 969 colours e100 199 preservatives e200 299 antioxidants & acidity regulators e300 399 thickeners stabilisers & emulsifiers e400 499 ph regulators & anticaking agents e500 599 flavour enhancers e600 699 antibiotics e700 799 miscellaneous e900 999 additional chemicals e1100 1599 waxes e900 909 synthetic glazes e910 919 improving agents e920 929 packaging gases e930 949 sweeteners e950 969 foaming agents e990 999 acesulfame k e950 aspartame e951 cyclamate e952 isomalt e953 saccharin e954 sucralose e955 alitame e956 thaumatin e957 neohesperidin dihydrochalcone e959 neotame e961 aspartame acesulfame salt e962 maltitol e965 lactitol e966 xylitol e967 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nutrasweet & oldid 724754800 categories food manufacturers of the united stateschemical companies of the united statessugar substitutescompanies established in 1985 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 11 june 2016 at 07 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view