FDA BEING PUSHED TO BAN ASPARTAME!! JOIN THE FIGHT!!

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Umm, good, use more artificial sweeteners, yum, yes. Don't believe what

anybody tells you, artificial sweeteners are GOOD for you [This has been

a paid commercial announcement] . . .

 

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FDA BEING PUSHED TO BAN ASPARTAME!! JOIN THE FIGHT!!  

 

Posted by: " zebra77a " zebra77a zebra77a   Tue Jun 26,

2007 8:06 pm ((PDT))

People its just that simple, don't bother contacting the FDA, or your

senator, contact your favorite class action lawsuit lawyer!! Nothing

motivates greedy corporations like Monsanto (provider of Aspartame) like

a class action lawsuit.

 

Found at

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/260607Aspartame.htm

 

    FDA Should Reconsider Aspartame Cancer Risk, Say Experts

 

CSPI

Tuesday June 26, 2007

WASHINGTON—A new long-term animal test from an Italian cancer

institute raises serious safety questions about the artificial sweetener

aspartame, which is marketed generically as well as under the NutraSweet

and Equal brand names. A dozen toxicology and epidemiology experts and

the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest are calling on

the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately review the study,

which found increases in lymphomas, leukemias, and breast cancers in

rats. If FDA concludes that aspartame does cause cancer in animals, the

agency is required by law to revoke its approval for the controversial

sweetener, which is used in Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke, tabletop packets, and

countless other foods.

The new study, conducted by the respected Ramazzini Foundation and

published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found

statistically significant increases in lymphomas and leukemias in rats

that were fed as little as 20 milligrams of the sweetener per kilogram

of body weight—an amount that's in the ballpark of what some people

consume. The new study is superior to a similar one released in 2005 in

that it began exposing the rats to aspartame before their birth.

" Because aspartame is so widely consumed, it is urgent that the FDA

evaluate whether aspartame still poses a `reasonable certainty of no

harm,. "

Aspartame also enters the diet through sugar-free or reduced-sugar gums,

candies,yogurts, and hundreds of other products. Many

aspartame-containing products are likely to be consumed by kids,

including sugar-free Kool-Aid, Jell-O gelatin dessert and pudding mixes,

and some Popsicles.

Among those who today called on FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach

to review the new aspartame study are former Occupational Safety and

Health Administration officials John Froines (now at UCLA) and Peter F.

Infante (now at George Washington University); James Huff, current

Associate Director for Chemical Carcinogenesis at the National Institute

of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS); and Kamal M. Abdo, a

toxicologist formerly at the National Toxicology Program of the NIEHS.

" Switching to safer ingredients now could be a wise precautionary

action, " Jacobson wrote to Cal Dooley, president of the Food Products

Association/Grocery Manufactures Association.