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News and Announcements: Aspartame Ban Update:Vote Hinges on One Senator, Mary Kay

Papen In legislative concerns and functions, it is rare that one person can, by their informed vote, affect the entire course of Consumer Protection in New Mexico, in the USA, and in many nations. That is about to occur in the New Mexico Legislature with the bill to ban the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. This is Senate Bill 498; it is on the Legislature website, and is an outright straightforward ban, not about labeling, not about vending machines in the schools, but a total ban of a chemical that should never have been approved in the first place, but was rammed through the FDA approval process in 1981 by the CEO of

G.D. Searle, who, because of his connections in the Reagan White House, managed to get his own crony appointed as FDA Commissioner. We seek to ban this chemical: if you have questions, just google the physicians' names, Blaylock, Roberts, and the Report for Schools, Pediatricians, and Obstetricians on Aspartame, or Member of UK Parliament's Roger Williams Early Day Motion in January 2006 to ban it entirely in the UK, signed by 46 members of Parliament. Over the past year, Mary Jane Garcia, Vice Chair of Senate Public Affairs, has come to the realization that this bill is correct, and that aspartame is harmful for diabetics, the people that use it the most, since formaldehyde is bad for everyone's pancreas, brain, nervous system, etc. This New Mexico responsibility is all

going to fall on Senator Mary Kay Papen of Las Cruces (986-4270), also a member of that committee. If she votes against it, it is killed for 2007. If she votes for it, it proceeds to Corporations and thence to the Senate Floor. Some restaurateurs for reasons unclear to me oppose it, I suppose because they don't want to disappoint customers asking for Diet cokes, Equal, Sugarless gum and 6000 other products. Their lobbyist is Mary Kay Papen's daughter. Some of them have bragged that they have killed the bill thereby, but Papen made it clear to me recently that she doesn't tell her daughter how to vote and her daughter doesn't tell her how to vote. I

believe her. Having a clear and open mind is an absolute requirement for all New Mexico legislators, regardless of which lobbyists say what, and there are several from the Japanese manufacturer, Ajinomoto, the world's largest manufacturer of Aspartame and another neurotoxic food additive, Monosodium Glutamate. What Senator Papen does need is to hear from her constituents, which is always the strongest factor to Democrats and to most Republicans, as to how they want her to vote, for protecting public health in New Mexico from further damage from a chemical adulterant which should never have been approved in the first place, or for protecting multinational corporations that make it, like Ajinomoto, or use it, like Coca Cola, Wrigley's, Pepsi, 7up, and hundreds of others. There is so much at stake. If New Mexico moves ahead with this long

overdue bill, as a precaution if nothing else, since there is so much evidence about the harm done by aspartame, it protects hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans. This was much the same story with cyclamates, with Asbestos, PCB's, etc. Even when they were killing people left and right, lobbyists still maintained their products were harmless, until the lawsuits started building up and they had to change their tune and remove the product voluntarily or by FDA order. This is a large responsibility for Senator Papen, and I hope that she doesn't mind the scrutiny of an entire Nation and even other Nations, because either we will celebrate her good sense and earnest effort to protect Health, or we will wonder what the truth of her vote to kill the bill was, if that is to be the case. All New Mexico Senators have had plenty of evidence thus far. Dr. Blaylock's CD lecture, 48 page articles on how it causes abortions, cardiac arrhythmia, Multiple Sclerosis, Brain tumors, the FDA list of 92 symptoms which they stopped compiling in 1995-----the legislators in both Houses have heard it all. I pray that Mary Kay Papen makes the right decision about banning Aspartame, as Mary Jane Garcia has already decided to do so. Let Senator Papen know your thoughts at 986-4270. Truly, Thank you. Keep that award winning Legislature supplement going, and keep reading labels on food products and asking questions about the chemistry involved. Stephen Fox New

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I found out very early that using products with aspartame gave me

migraines. I forbid my children to consume any candy, gum etc. which

contains it. Problem; my wife is from South America where sweeteners

made of cane sugar are used copiously. Since moving to the US, with

her sweet tooth she has come to accept aspartame. It is almost

impossible to convince her or others that it is a poison, especially

since it is in so many products. The sooner it is banned, the better!

 

 

, Rocky Ward

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> Aspartame Ban Update:

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> Vote Hinges on One Senator, Mary Kay Papen

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> In legislative concerns and functions, it is rare that one person

can, by their informed vote, affect the entire course of Consumer

Protection in New Mexico, in the USA, and in many nations. That is

about to occur in the New Mexico Legislature with the bill to ban the

neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame.

> This is Senate Bill 498; it is on the Legislature website, and d