Food Standards Cover-up of Aspartame Toxicity

[Guest guest]

Dear Ms. Griffin Sackey:

 

You say you have read the letters and addressed the issues in earlier

correspondence. You simply ignored the evidence. Example: I asked why

your web site has only industry propaganda instead of facts. It is

the same "aspartame is safe" misinformation used by the manufacturer,

professional organizations funded by the manufacturer to defend them

and front groups to mislead the public. I sent you the rebuttal with

medical references so you would change this deception. Here is

again:.

< http://www.dorway.com/offasprt.html> http://www.dorway.com/offasprt.html

So please explain to me why you still have misinformation on your web

site after reading these medical references. If you can't accept

these references and accurate facts tell me why. Food Standards was

created to be independent from industry, not to be their

mouthpiece. Yet independent research uncontrolled/funded by

aspartame manufacturers prove its deadly. Where are those studies on

your web site? There has been at least 18 in the last 2 years..

 

There have been 3 studies in

Greece.

< http://www.wnho.net/new_greek_aspartame_studies.htm> http://www.wnho.net/new_greek_aspartame_studies.htm

 

New studies implicate aspartame with neurological problems, learning

and memory.

Dr. H. J. Roberts said: "The demonstration that large concentrations

of aspartame can influence acetylcholine metabolism in any model is

important, especially relative to brain function. It has profound

implications concerning the evolution of Alzheimer's disease, as

discussed in my text on this subject." Memory loss is #9 on the FDA

list of 92 symptoms. Roberts' book "Defense Against Alzheimer's

Disease" < http://www.sunsentpress.com/> www.sunsentpress.com explains

that aspartame is escalating Alzheimer's.

 

Where on your web site is a warning that the formaldehyde converted

from the methyl ester in aspartame embalms living tissue and damages

DNA as demonstrated by the Trocho Study. Rather than warning UK

citizens, you publish a fictional rebuttal by a known aspartame

flack. FSA is supposed to protect the people of the UK not prisoner's

profits. Reference the data on aspartame pre-embalming in Dr...H.

J. Roberts 1,000 page medical text: "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored

Epidemic"

< http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf> www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf

 

 

If you show independent studies, because they are particularly

damning and well known, it's so you can have an industry rebuttal to

try and allay concern. Industry will rebut any independent study

because they are trying to defend this poison. So instead of

accepting legitimate prestigious research like the three year

Ramazzini Study confirming FDA's records that aspartame is a

multipotential carcinogen and the Trocho Study, FSA accepts the

flacks misinformation to dissolve the truth. Since you've been sent

the facts and haven't even attempted to rebut them are you saying FSA

can't tell fact from fiction? If you really intend to protect

people in the UK we expect you to post studies by independent researchers.

 

Every new study showing aspartame toxicity is smothered by the ghouls

that make and sell it. They claim aspartame is "the most tested

additive in history." In one test on seven infant monkeys five had

grand mal seizures and one died. When will you publish that

one? Food Standards' Dame Deirde Hutton, CBE addressed the British

Soft Drink Association with these remarks:

 

"I personally don't see sweeteners as the panacea for calorie balance

not for any safety reasons, despite the Ramazzini study popping up

again briefly last week. Aspartame is one of the most tested food

additives there is. We have an Acceptable Daily Intake set and

that's the end of story unless or until any new, reliable evidence emerges."

 

Who is Deirdre Hutton who defends industry. Examine:

< http://www.food.gov.uk/aboutus/ourboard/boardmem/damedeirdrehutton> www.food.gov.uk/aboutus/ourboard/boardmem/damedeirdrehutton

 

Said she: "we have an Acceptable Daily Intake set and that's the end

of story unless or until any new, reliable evidence emerges", Hutton

did no homework. Aspartame was approved in England through a deal

with Paul Turner and no studies were done in the UK. There was a

blowout in Parliament and the story was in the Guardian. So Food

Standards relies on the FDA. Are you FDA's rubber stamp?

 

 

 

On August 1, l985 the FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told

Congress of Searle's studies "has established beyond ANY REASONABLE

DOUBT that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in

experimental animals and that this predisposition of it is of

extremely high significance. ... In view of these indications that

the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been

established WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT, one can ask: What is the

reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food

additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?"

 

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of

carcinogenic chemicals in food. In his concluding testimony Gross

asked, "Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would the

FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame

as constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe' level of it? Is

that position in effect not equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for

this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA

itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health

of the public?" Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

 

FDA outlawed an allowable dose of any additive causing cancer, and

declared aspartame a carcinogen and violating the Delaney Amendment.

Get facts before you defend a chemical poison. Dame Deirdre

Hutton's remarks about the most tested additive in history but didn't

disclose that

The studies were invalidated, and Dr. Adrian Gross explained that

deliberate misconduct and lies invalidated all their experiments for

these reasons:

 

* Many of the problems with the studies included horrendous

experimental designs, questions regarding dosage given, loss of

animal tissue and data, etc.. which invalidates entire experiments

and causes what they claim to be 4 million observations and

calculations per study (average) to become irrelevant.

 

* Only the key aspartame studies were looked at. It is almost a

certainty that the non-key aspartame studies were equally flawed.

Therefore, this would invalidate the "hundreds of millions" of

observations and calculations made during these studies.

 

* The difference between a study showing no statistical

difference and a significant statistical difference is often only a

few observations or calculations. Therefore, had the myriad of other

serious experimental errors not occurred, the observation and

calculation mistakes in each experiment investigated would, by

themselves, invalidate most of the key studies.

 

* It is highly unlikely that the FDA Investigative teams found

all of the problems with G. D. Searle's studies. G. D. Searle seemed

so intent on covering up their misconduct, that it is quite likely

that they were able to hide many of the problems from the FDA.

 

The public record shows aspartame was never proven safe! What was

proved was massive fraud, by aspartame CEO Don Rumsfeld's company,

and they got out of it by buying the U.S. Prosecutors who were never

investigated for not doing their job and switching to work for the

defense team.

So FDA revoked the petition for approval. Read their decision. You

owe it to the citizens of the UK to not poison

them!

< http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc> http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc

 

You assert: "Following reviews from independent experts at European

level and those who advise the UK Government, no evidence has come to

light which warrants the prohibition of aspartame from foods." I

repeatedly informed you about those "experts" and took the government

and medical evidence to the European Union, but they ignored it.

 

 

Here is the "Independent Analysis of the "Opinion of the European

Commission, Scientific Committee on Food: Update on the Safety of

Aspartame / E951"

< http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002.html> http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002.html

I sent this before. Please read it this time.

 

an investigation by OLAF revealed that only one person made the

decision. All this data is in the above report. Your "European

experts" decision was invalidated and their report is meaningless. No

real research was considered. This is why they ignored the damning

research I brought to Brussels. They just needed one flack to defend

aspartame manufacturers so were not concerned with the scientific

evidence. They didn't expect OLAF to expose their intent. So now we

have the European Food Safety Authority. Since you haven't addressed

this issue either, here again is my open letter to the

EFSA:

< http://www.wnho.net/letter_to_efsa.htm> http://www.wnho.net/letter_to_efsa.htm

Links to Ajinomoto were described in the UK press and Dr. Koeter of

the EFSA confessed they were battling attempts by industry to hijack

science. The aspartame manufacturers are known for their power and

influence in getting governments to defend them.

 

Dr. Koeter's confession was in Navigator:

< http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=70720-efsa-health-claims-antibiotics> http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=70720-efsa-health-claims-antibiotics

Notice they mention the Ramazzini Study which was peer reviewed by 7

world experts, showing aspartame a multipotential

carcinogen. Subsequently a new study by Dr. Soffritti of Ramazzini

has shown only a small amount of aspartame will cause cancer, and if

a pregnant woman uses it and the baby survives the child can grow up

to develop cancer. Dame Hutton is also a member of EFSA.

 

You ignore these issues,, that these organizations have been

exposed. You say, "The UK would need to prove that it was harmful to

human health. However, the FSA is of the view that the scientific

evidence shows that the consumption of aspartame is safe for

humans." The FSA knows that aspartame is toxic. You've had

complaints for years, and often I get copies of them.

 

The modus operandi of the aspartame industry has been to prevent

independent studies and even threaten researchers. Read how Dr.

Richard Wurtman of MIT was threatened in the United Press

International

investigation.

< http://www.wnho.net/upi_1987_aspartame1.htm> http://www.wnho.net/upi_1987_aspartame1.htm

If a study gets out that is damning on aspartame like the Trocho

Study they try to assassinate the character of the researcher. In

Barcelona I spoke with this scientist, and Dr. Alemany said

immediately research funds were reduced as well. Interestingly,

governments get upset when they find clothing from China has

formaldehyde. There is even an on-going investigation in the US

about the formaldehyde in Katrina trailers. Yet governments look

away when they find a product on the marketing is pre-embalming

humans with formaldehyde. The aspartame manufacturers can buy lots

of power and influence because they have a cash cow, an addictive

excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug. They might as well have cocaine

on the market because aspartame is said to be just as addictive and

we have an Aspartame Information List, which is also support to help

these victims get through withdrawal. The free methyl alcohol is

classified as a narcotic and causes chronic methanol poisoning. This

affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes addiction. Here

is Dr. Roberts paper on

it:

< http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html> http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html

Essence Center in North Carolina takes aspartame addicts who have

trouble kicking the habit.

 

The Ramazzini Study on 1,800 rats was impeccable, and the EFSA had no

valid rebuttal, so they made up a stupid excuse and got caught. They

said the dying rats had respiratory disease. Of course, respiratory

disease is part of the dying process! They were laughed at when Dr.

Soffritti answered their excuse.

 

Dr. Ralph Walton's presentation on 60 Minutes showed that 92% of all

independent, peer reviewed studies reveal aspartame problems, but

100% of industry funded studies say it's safe as rain. .

< http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html> http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html

 

After a quarter of a century of independent studies exposing this

poison, congressional hearings, documentaries baring the political

chicanery, medical texts by eminent physicians and organizations like

ours warning mankind of the plague of this poison, aspartame

detoxification centers, and an Aspartame Toxicity Center putting the

issue on record, enough is enough. The facts are incontrovertible so

stop lying, and get the propaganda off your web site, and ban

aspartame in the UK. The studies have been done, millions are

afflicted, and victims die daily.

 

In the end it's just a matter of character, Ms. Griffin-Sackey. Do

you have the character to stand up for the lives entrusted to FSA, or

are you blinded by the blandishments of criminals caring nothing for

the slain, disabled and bereaved in beautiful England? You need

another study? How many would you like us to send you? Studies are

constantly being done by independent researchers showing aspartame

toxicity, but are ignored by Food Standards. Every day that FSA

stalls and excuses is one more day people can die in the UK from

aspartame. You say FSA needs convincing evidence to ban this

toxin. If you would read the facts instead of covering them up you

would have the evidence. Do you think now you can address these issues?

 

 

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242 2599

< http://www.mpwhi.com/> www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and

< http://www.wnho.net/> www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center,

< http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame> www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

 

 

 

X-Env-Sender: Donna.Griffith-Sackey

1 May 2008 14:38:41 -0000

Re: To Food Standards: Food Additives Could Be As Damaging

as Lead in

Petrol - Independent - Our ref: ADB 33/265 L

"Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum." < bettym19

8025743C.00506E88

Donna.Griffith-Sackey

Thu, 1 May 2008 15:38:32 +0100

 

 

 

Dear Dr Martini Thank you for your email dated 8 April 2008 where you

refer to various issues regarding the safety of aspartame.

In response to your emails dated 7 and 14 January 2008, I believe

we have addressed these issues in earlier correspondence. To

re-iterate the Agencys view on aspartame and other additives,

approved additives can be

used in foods unless there is convincing evidence that they

will harm consumers. Following reviews from independent experts

at European level and those who advise the UK Government, no evidence

has come to light which warrants the prohibition of aspartame from

foods. For the UK to take action and ban the use of any food

additive, including aspartame, the UK would need to prove that it

was harmful to human health. However, the FSA is of the view that the

scientific evidence shows that the consumption of aspartame is safe

for humans. Aspartame research One of the FSAs core values is to put

the consumer first. In addition its policies must also be evidence

based. The Agency recognises a hierarchy of scientific evidence,

however it does not discount any evidence. Anecdotal

evidence can act as a concern-based trigger for studies to

provide extensive reproducible evidence. This has been the case

with anecdotal reports of adverse reactions to aspartame. You were

advised in our reply dated 9 January 2008 that the FSA has

recently proposed that EFSA should undertake further research on

aspartame. The proposal is to undertake a double-blind study of

people chosen because they allege ill-health effects from aspartame

consumption. Aspartame and pregnancy The European Commissions former

Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) looked

at reports on the use of aspartame during pregnancy and

concluded that those reports did not provide any evidence that any

adverse health effects would occur from consuming aspartame at

intakes within the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI). Southampton Study

The Government takes consumer concerns about additives very seriously

which is why the FSA commissioned Southampton University to

undertake the study on the possible effects of artificial food

colours on childrens behaviour. Our response to any research like

this is always based on the scientific evidence presented to us. As

such, the results of the study were referred to the Committee on

Toxicity, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT)

for their consideration. This Committee provides independent

scientific advice to the UK Government.

However, whilst this study was UK-led, any changes to legislation

would have to be carried out at European level as additives

legislation is harmonised throughout the European Union

(EU). Furthermore, on the basis

of the evidence in the Southampton study it was not possible

to take unilateral action and withdraw the authorised use for

these specific colours. We therefore forwarded the study for

consideration by EFSA as a

first step to initiating pan-EU risk management measures. The

EFSA published their review of the study on 13 March, and the Board

of the FSA discussed this issue on 10 April. This meeting saw the

agreement of the

Board to advise Ministers that there should be voluntary

action by manufacturers in the UK to remove the colours in the

study by 2009 and action to phase them out in food and drink in

the EU over a specified period. A number of major UK retailers have

started reformulating some of their own brand products in response

to likely consumer demand. The colours included in the recently

published study are amongst those that have been replaced.

This will enable consumers to have a wider choice of foods which

do not contain additives they wish to avoid. Use of additives in

medicines The use of additives in medicines is regulated by

the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and further

details can be found at < http://www.mhra.gov.uk/> www.mhra.gov.uk. MSG

and brain tumours With regard to monosodium glutamate (MSG), and

brain tumours, the COT has

published a statement on the neurotoxicity of a number of

additives including aspartame, MSG and the colours quinoline

yellow and brilliant blue. The COT concluded that a significant

number of studies have been carried out on aspartame and MSG

including many looking at indicators of neurotoxic effects and

there is no evidence to show that aspartame or MSG

is likely to cause neurotoxicity which may lead to seizures or

brain tumours at current levels of intake. This statement can be

found at the following address:

< http://cot.food.gov.uk/pdfs/cotstatementadditives.pdf> http://cot.food.gov.uk/pdfs/cotstatementadditives.pdf

I hope this information proves useful. Best wishes Donna

Griffith-Sackey Food Standards Agency Novel Foods, Additives and

Supplements Division |---------+---------------------------->

"Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum."

bettym19

08/04/2008 08:59 |

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To Food Standards: Food

Additives Could Be As Damaging as Lead in Petrol -

Independent |

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To Food Standards: Recently I sent you this letter:

< http://www.mpwhi.com/reply_to_food_standards_aspartame.htm> http://www.mpwhi.com/reply_to_food_standards_aspartame.htm

No answer. Then there was this letter:

< http://www.mpwhi.com/investigative_report_on_aspartame_misinformation.htm> http://www.mpwhi.com/investigative_report_on_aspartame_misinformation.htm

What has Food Standards done to remove aspartame from the

marketplace? Nothing but stall. For 17 years I have taken the case

histories of aspartame victims. I've spoken to them on the phone as

they describe their anguish, in the crowds giving out flyers,

listening to their anguish, received their emails and faxes and

letters. I have

 

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