[SecularHumanist] Aspartame & the FDA

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Aspartame Interacts With ALL Drugs Vaccines And Toxins

FDA Put On Notice

 

>From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

2-23-5

 

Who knows more about the toxicity of aspartame than the FDA. Their

toxicologists, Doctors Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett

strenuously objected to aspartame approval for 16 years. It wasn't

just that aspartame is not safe and in original studies triggered

brain tumors, seizures and all sorts of other tumors, it was that

the manufacturer filtered out what they didn't want FDA to see.

 

(January 10, l977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard

Merrill recommended to U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury

investigate Searle for " apparent violations of the Federal Food,

Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.331(e), Act 18 USC 1001, for " their

willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug

Administration required by the Act 21, U.S.C. 355 (i) and for

concealing material facts and making false statements in reports of

animal studies conducted to establish the safety of (aspartame), "

The FDA called special attention to studies investigating the effect

of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters. ) Both U.S. Prosecutors hired

on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired.

Still the FDA kept saying loudly no - no - no!

 

FDA's Jerome Bressler wrote the brilliant FDA audit, the Bressler

Report on http://www.dorway.com in regard to Searle's testing. In

speaking with Bressler he told me personally the studies were so bad

the worst 20% was removed by FDA when retyped. He also told this to

Doctors H. J. Roberts and Dr. Russell Blaylock. Dr. Roberts asked

his congressman to get the rest of the report from the FDA who

promptly refused.

 

In the incredible aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery, A Poisoned

World, from the very mouth of Attorney James Turner who assisted the

famed Dr. John Olney in trying to prevent approval came mind

boggling facts!

 

Don Rumsfeld, currently Secretary of Defense, was CEO of Searle and

said he would call in his markers and get aspartame approved. To

Rumsfeld the fact the FDA said " no " meant only he would have to use

politics instead of science to get this neurotoxin approved, knowing

full well it would poison the public, causing in humans the injuries

seen in lab animals, brain tumors and seizures. He was on Reagan's

transition team and the day after Reagan took office Arthur Hull

Hayes was appointed to approve this toxin, since no former FDA

Commissioner had been willing to do so.

 

ASPARTAME WAS APPROVED BY PRESIDENTIAL ORDER

 

President Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to FDA so

he wrote an executive order making the outgoing FDA Commissioner

powerless to oppose aspartame. From the congressional record,

Senate, page S5497, May 7, l985:

 

" Two FDA officials have told Common Cause Magazine that Hayes was

determined to push aspartame forward, in part as a signal that the

Reagan administration was ushering in a new regulatory era. One

official privy to some of the deliberations made at Hayes' level

says the " people at the top " were not receptive to important

concerns raised about the quality and validity of some of the key

tests submitted in support of aspartame. "

 

" There were real questions " about the reliability and interpretation

of the data " that were glossed over " at the commissioner's level,

this official says, adding that Hayes and his close associates

wanted FDA scientists to concentrate on providing rationales for

overturning the l980 Public Board of Inquiry instead of focusing on

the fact that there were unresolved issues about a number of key

tests. "

 

John Hoey, M.D. in reviewing Marcia Angell's book, " The Truth About

the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It "

(10/7/2004) says:

 

" By Angell's account, the current slide toward the commercialization

and corruption of clinical research coincided with the election of

President Ronald Reagan in l980 and the passage of the Bayh-Dole

Act, a new set of laws that permitted and encouraged universities

and small businesses to patent discoveries from research sponsored

by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research paid for by the

public to serve the public instantly became a private and salable,

good, one that is producing drug sales of more than $200 billion a

year. "

 

Further, Dr. Hoey in discussing research commercialization

said: " The broader effects are felt in the commercialization of

universities, medical faculties, and our profession. In 2000, in a

letter written in response to Angell's Journal editorial, Is

Academic Medicine for Sale? " a reader supplied the answer: No. The

current owner is very happy with it. The increasing intrusion of

industry into medical education and the almost complete domination

of continuing medical education (especially regarding drugs) by the

marketing departments of large pharmaceutical companies are a

scandal. "

 

When Arthur Hull Hayes got to the FDA a Board of Inquiry was set up

with the finest scientists FDA had. They declared: " ..the Board

concludes that approval of aspartame for use in foods should be

withheld at least until the question concerning its possible

carcinogenic potential has been resolved by further experiments. The

Board has not been presented with proof of a reasonable certainty

that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive under its intended

conditions of use. "

 

" ORDER: The foregoing constitutes the Board's findings of fact and

conclusions of law. Therefore, it is ORDERED that: (1) Approval of

the food additive petition for aspartame (FAP 3A2885) be and it is

hereby withdrawn. (2) The stay of the effectiveness of the

regulation for aspartame, 21 CFR 172.804, is hereby vacated and the

regulation revoked. "

 

--- This PBOI report on 9/3/80 was signed by Walle J. H. Nauta,

M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Peter W. Lampert, M.D., and Vernon R. Young,

Ph.D., Member

 

Dr. Hayes wouldn't take " no " because he was there to get aspartame

approved. As the Congressional Record continues, Senate, S5497, May

7, l985: " Hayes decisions to approve aspartame for use in dry foods

such as cereals in l981 and soft drinks in l983 does not square with

the role of the FDA is supposed to play.

 

The FDA is the government agency that reviews and approves all tests

submitted by companies before allowing food additives on the market.

The law requires a manufacturer - in this case Searle - to prove to

the satisfaction of the FDA that there is a " reasonable certainty "

that a food additive is safe. The government does not have to prove

that it is harmful - an important distinction. If tests are

inconclusive, an additive is not suppose to be approved by the FDA. "

 

When Hayes finished his job to get a neurotoxic drug on the market

he hired on with the public relations firm, Burston Marsteller, who

represented NutraSweet, for $1000.00 per day as a consultant. Hayes

refused to talk to the press since. He had no excuse for approving a

toxic drug whose petition was revoked by FDA scientists. Hayes had

full knowledge that its a carcinogen in violation of the Delaney

Amendment which forbid adding carcinogens to food and drugs.

 

WHEN FDA WAS PUSHED OFF ITS PEDESTAL: Imagine an intact FDA which

tried to do its job of protecting the public, having to proclaim

that a horrendous neurotoxic drug is safe.

 

Would could FDA say when asked if aspartame was safe? Could they

say " we approved it but its poison " ? Probably the only thing they

could say was " Ask us no questions and we will tell you no lies. "

 

Even today when journalists ask the FDA to comment on aspartame they

say: " No comment. See our web site. "

 

The web site is just lying industry propaganda.

 

Beginning with Reagan and Hayes the pharmaceutical cartel had the

power to get approved the worst drugs. FDA seemed to care not.

Their bulletin, the FDA Consumer continued to tout the safety of

aspartame and letters to victims whose lives were destroyed said

aspartame was the most tested additive in history. Even letters to

congressmen lied and lied.

 

Dr. John Olney knew what aspartame would do to the brains of our

children. and discussed it in his report to the Board of Inquiry. In

l999 Parents Magazine asked " What's Happening to our Children " ,

announcing that families all over America were experiencing so much

depression it was estimated that 1 out of 4 had contemplated suicide.

 

The 50% phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and

depletes serotonin,and can trigger bipolar or manic depression, mood

swings, paranoia, hallucination and suicidal tendencies. So our

children are medicated instead of educated. Seventy per cent of

consumers use aspartame and 40% of the children. Dr. Olney's

prophecy is fulfilled.

 

To get a copy of the congressional record, Board of Inquiry Report

and Dr. Olney's Report to the Board of Inquiry on CD you can contact

Bob Flint at bobflint. The web site would be

www.greatfallspro.com

 

Three congressional hearings were held by Senator Howard Metzenbaum

who wrote a bill to have independent studies done on the problems

from aspartame, effect on the fetus, behavioral problems in

children, seizures and drug interactions. The producers saw to it

that the bill never got out of committee. The last of the heros of

FDA toxicologists Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett testified to

no avail. Dr. Adrian Gross said without a shadow of a doubt

aspartame causes brain tumors and brain cancer, and violates the

Delaney Amendment.

 

His last words were : " And if the FDA violates its own laws who is

left to protect the public? "

 

We are now taking case histories on brain tumors and seizures

starting in New York and New Jersey. Dr. Verrett said: " All studies

were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out. "

 

Today's FDA is the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical/chemical cartel.

 

The revolving door is so busy they need a bridge for the traffic.

I told all this to Acting Commissioner Dr. Michael Friedman. He

defended Monsanto on 60 Minutes when Dr. Olney made world news about

the aspartame brain tumor association. Then Friedman hired as Vice

President of Searle for big bucks - crime pays well.

 

In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C.

petitioned FDA to ban aspartame because so many were having seizures

and going blind from the free methyl alcohol in the drug.

 

Aspartame is sold as an additive but it's a neurotoxic drug.

 

FDA law requires an additive be inert or non-reactive. The medical

text on aspartame disease lists countless diseases and symptoms and

drug interactions by the toxin.

 

ASPARTAME DISEASE RAGES, INTERACTS WITH ALL DRUGS, VACCINES AND

TOXINS.

 

When aspartame was news, Dr. H. J. Roberts in a press conference

foretold that in 5 or 10 years we would have a global plague.

 

And it was Dr. Roberts who declared Aspartame Disease to be a global

plague and published the medical text in 2001, Aspartame Disease: An

Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991.

His chapter on drug interaction goes into Coumadin, Dilantin,

antidepressants and other psychotropic agents, Inderal, Aldomet,

hormones and insulin. He says aspartame interacts with all cardiac

medication and even discusses drug reactions after the cessation of

aspartame.

 

In his general considerations he discusses that aspartame may either

reduce or potentiate drug action by various mechanisms. He lists a

few of the possibilities.

 

* Alteration of the blood proteins to which drugs attach.

* Alteration of drug receptors on cell membranes.

* Changes in the sites at which impulses are transmitted along

nerves and to muscle.

* Metabolic abnormalities in the elderly that are known to enhance

their vulnerability to drug reactions (Weber l986). This problem

increases in the case of persons taking multiple drugs

( " polypharmacy " ) prescribed by several physicians.

* Interference with drug action by amino acids and protein. An

example is the erratic therapeutic effects when patients with

parkinsonism who were controlled on levodopa began to use aspartame

products. The antagonism of levodopa by dietary protein presumably

reflects impaired transport from serum across the blood brain

barrier by neutral amino acids (Pincus l986).

 

Dr. Roberts also discusses Lidocaine (Xylocaine) which he says is an

important drug used for local anesthesia and the treatment of

ventricular arrhythmias in intensive care units. Alterations of its

pharmacology by aspartame require study. He says: " Kim et al (l987)

reported that the intraperitoneal administration of aspartame

significantly reduced the 50% convulsion dose of lidocaine. They

indicated that PKU patients and asymptomatic PKU heterozygotes may

be more sensitive to the toxic effects of this and related local

anesthetics. "

 

Today Dr. Roberts explained: " An interaction should be suspect with

virtually every drug if the patient is using aspartame. "

 

This goes along with conversations with Dr. James Bowen who says

because aspartame damages the mitocondria of the cell it will

interact with all drugs and as a chemical hypersensitization agent

will interact with vaccines, unsafe sweeteners like Splenda or

sucralose ( chlorinated hydrocarbon) and toxins.

 

Dr. Bowen wrote about the biochemical interactions between aspartame

and other poisons including many pharmaceuticals illustrated in Dr.

Roberts medical text and said Dr. Mercola's web site has them as

well.

 

Further he wrote: " Because aspartame in the processes of digestion

and metabolism, forms about ten other known severe poisonings, and

intermediate metabolites,[!!] it's potential for drug related

interactions is immeasurable.

 

To top that off, the aspartame molecule is so heinously poisonous in

different ways that it never passed a single FDA standard toxicity

test!

 

So Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of aspartame manufacturer Searle employed

political power to get it approved, after the FDA for 16 years

refused to allow it on the market because of aspartame toxicity.

Then Reagan took direct executive measures to paralyze FDA from

further action against aspartame.

 

Our FDA has never been the same since.

 

Deadly chemicals now being blessed by FDA are marketed as wholesome

pharmaceuticals, are just the tip of the iceberg, and result of

Rumsfeld's damage to FDA. If any concern whatsoever for human

welfare still existed, aspartame would be immediately pulled from

the market! The reasonable FDA lawful standard is that a chemical

must pass all toxicity tests at one hundred times the " maximum human

dose, " in order to pass as a food additive. What the original tests

showed is that at a dose of three cans of pop per day, scaled to the

weight of the animal, aspartame releases DKP, a recognized virulent

brain carcinogen. No other chemical causes the brain cancer rate to

jump as much. "

 

Dr. Bowen continues,

 

" Aspartame is a known destroyer of DNA.

 

The mitocondrial DNA (MtDNA) is especially damaged, yielding the

present epidemic of diseases aspartame consuming mothers pass on to

all future generations

 

.. Aspartame also directly damages the mitochondria, thus having a

" double whammy " effect on mitochondrial function!

 

The summation of these many known severe toxicities and its immune,

genetic, mitochondrial, and metabolic damages, make clear that

aspartame will not only cause many diseases, which the FDA and CDC

have already noted but it has pathways of approach to interact

adversely with every conceivable pharmaceutical.

 

My forth coming book: " Sweet Mystery in The Present Darkness:

Whatever Happened to We Scientists Who First Spoke Out Against

Aspartame? " will delve into all of this in greater detail and more

specificity. "

 

The Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste wrote in the spring

of l996 the article: " The Rising Rates of Health Problems - Is There

A Toxic Connection? Stephen Lester. It might as well have been

written about aspartame because the diseases it lists are all ones

that have been written about as triggered by aspartame, from birth

defects to chemical sensitives. Under the title Cancer Lester says:

 

" What has gone wrong with our way of thinking when it is considered

" normal " that 1 in 3 people get cancer? IT IS NOT NORMAL.. Cancer is

not a natural disease and even if it were, it wouldn't be " normal "

for cancer to claim the lives of 25% of the population. " Again, one

can only think of aspartame when in original studies it triggered

brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic

tumors and violated the Delaney Amendment. The Pharmaceutical and

Chemical cartel know aspartame violates the law, so one would ask is

that why the Delaney Amendment was repealed? When a law for the

safety of the public gets in their way of marking poison they simply

do away with the law.

 

In June it will be 3 years since I petitioned the FDA to ban

aspartame because I have the FDA records and they lie to the public.

The law states they have 180 days to answer. Their letter to me

states they have more important things to do. So the FDA continues

to recall drugs that interact and leave the poison aspartame on the

market.

 

** Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with

all cardiac Rx. It damages the cardiac conduction system and causes

sudden death. With people dropping dead so fast that defibrillators

are now sold over the counter, they took the opportunity to pull

ephedra (Chinese MaHaung )off the market when an athlete died who

was using Diet coke. Dr. John Olney reviewed the FDA records on

ephedra and found it to be safe. One attorney said, " it wasn't

Chinese Mahaung at all, but the drug that caused some problems. " So

what does the FDA do, leave the drug on the market causing the

problems and snatches a safe supplement in their continuing loyalty

to the pharmaceutical cartel.

 

MSG has an additive and synergistic effect with aspartame. Is that

why the glutamate industry used aspartame as their placebo, so they

could show that one excitotoxin does not react more than the placebo

when, in fact, the aspartic acid in aspartame is also an excitotoxin.

 

They started doing this before aspartame was approved, so it was

well known in the industry that aspartame would react. The records

found in the FDA files by Jack Samuels (www.truthinlabeling.org) who

filed suit against the FDA on labeling of MSG, showed the FDA had

known all along and the industry had been doing this for 25 years

against the law. While the FDA had to admit it was wrong they did

nothing, again giving their loyalty the glutamate industry.

 

One can only remember the words of Dr. James Bowen to the FDA over

18 years ago: " Aspartame is mass poisoning of the American public

and over 70+ countries of the world " . What does it take to save the

people from this poison when government lies?

 

Dr. John Hoey, writing about the book The Truth About the Drug

Companies says according to Angell, Pharmaceutical Research and

Manufacturers of America, the pharmaceutical industry's U.S. trade

association has " the largest lobby in Washington, " which in 2002

employed 675 lobbyists (including 26 former members of Congress)

at a cost of more than $91 million. The result has been above-

average growth in corporate profits during both Republican and

Democratic administrations.

 

The most recent and perplexing lobbying effort caused Congress

explicitly to prohibit Medicare from using its huge purchasing power

to get lower prices for drugs, thus opening up a dollar pipeline, in

the form of higher drug prices, directly from taxpayers to corporate

coffers.

 

These changes, along with the cave-in by the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) in l997 that permitted direct-to-consumer

advertising to bypass mention in their ads of all but the most

serious side effects, have further augmented profits. The overall

effect has been a corruption not only of science but also of

the dissemination of Science. " No wonder new books keep being

published like Dr. Carolyn Dean's " Death of Medicine " .

 

Dr. Betty Martini

Founder, Mission Possible Intl

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

 

http://www.wnho.net and http://www.dorway.com

 

New Aspartame Information List - click on banner on www.wnho.net

 

Books on aspartame, including medical text, Aspartame Disease: An

Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991 by H. J.

Roberts, M.D.

 

Books on aspartame by Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D.,

www.russellblaylockmd.com

 

Movie on aspartame - contact cori

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World