To Food Standards: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, No Controversy on aspartame; it's a deadly poison

[Guest guest]

So you still haven't told me why you have people

working for you who are pro-industry and why you

have done nothing when you know aspartame is a

deadly, deadly addictive excitoneurotoxic

carcinogenic drug that interacts with virtually

all drugs and toxins. An article in the New York

Times recently said that more people die from

prescription drugs than illegal drugs, and that's

because if they are using aspartame whatever they

take is no doubt going to interact. I wonder how

many drugs this man was using for his heart and

Dr. H. J. Roberts who wrote the medical text said

aspartame interacts with all cardiac

medication. Aspartame Disease: An Ignored

Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com I would suggest you get a copy.

 

Here is the article on the latest

death: http://www.mpwhi.com/george_carlin_and_diet_coke.htm

 

What does it take Ms. Griffith-Sackey to get you

people to ban aspartame? All you have on your

web is industry propaganda. Even when damning

and prestigious studies are done on aspartame

showing so much toxicity that you can't question

the fact that the formaldehyde embalms living

tissue (Trocho Study) and aspartame is a

multipotential carcinogen (Ramazzini) you add

rebuttals by industry flacks. There are efforts

around the world to ban this deadly poison. 47

members of the UK Parliament have even asked for

a ban, and a member of the European Food Safety

Authority has confessed on their rebuttal on

Ramazzini that industry pressured them to high jack science.

 

Why does it take so long for you to answer. Food

Standards was set up to distance it from industry

and instead your web site shows their influence

and your refusal to publish the truth.

 

Read on.

 

Dr Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners

Aspartame documentary: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv

 

From Jack Samuels, www.truthinlabeling.org

 

>

>Humphries, Pretorius and Naude (from South

>Africa) did a nice review of " Direct and

>indirect cellular effects of aspartame on the

>brain " (European Journal of Clinical

>Nutrition. (2008) Vol 62, pages 451-462.) They

>talk about the toxic effects of aspartame,

>present their review, and conclude by saying

> " From all the adverse effects caused by this

>product, it is suggested that serious further

>testing and research be undertaken to eliminate

>any and all controversies surrounding this

>product. " I took that as an opportunity to

>write to the journal saying, " There really is no

>controversy. " It was published on-line last

>week, and will appear in the journal itself in

>the next couple of months. For those wanting to

>look up the Letter to the Editor, the Medline reference number is 18545263.

>

>

>

>Letter to the Editor

>

>

>

>European Journal of Clinical Nutrition advance

>online publication 11 June 2008; doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2008.38

>

>

>There really is no controversy

>

>

>

>A Samuels1

>1Solana Beach, CA, USA

>

>Correspondence: A Samuels, E-mail: <adieonlyadieonly

>It is noted in the excellent review by Humphries

>et al. (2008) that debate [over safety] still

>continues 20 years after the FDA had approved the use of aspartame.

>

>Regarding that debate, the following comments are in order.

>

>Aspartame has never been shown to be safe for human consumption.

>Aspartame was discovered in 1965. Required

>safety testing began in 1967. To date, no

>research outside of the aspartame industry has

>found aspartame to be safe for human consumption.

>

>In June 1979, the US Food and Drug

>Administration (FDA) established a Public Board

>of Inquiry (PBOI) to rule on aspartame safety

>issues. The PBOI concluded that

>NutraSweet/aspartame should not be approved

>pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals.

>

>In 1981, Ronald Reagan became President of the

>United States; Arthur Hull Hayes Jr was named

>FDA Commissioner; a Commissioner's panel was

>established to review issues raised by the PBOI;

>the panel advised against approval of aspartame;

>Hayes overruled the PBOI, ignored the

>recommendations of his own internal FDA team and

>approved aspartame for use in dry products.

>

>The so-called aspartame-industry 'science' is

>flawed to the point of being worthless.

>Controversy about the safety of aspartame is a

>device used by those who profit from production

>and sale of the product. Industry sponsored

>studies referring to brain damage draw

>conclusions without basis. Illustrating this

>practice is a 1980 study which reads, in part,

> " On the basis of blood absorption curves...[ it]

>is concluded that (aspartame)...does not result

>in hypothalamic damage in the newborn monkey (Reynolds et al., 1980) " .

>

>Using techniques similar to those of the

>glutamate industry (Samuels, 1999), the

>aspartame industry, in studies of adverse

>reactions, has manipulated subjects, procedures

>and statistics to enable researchers to draw the

>conclusion that there is no significant

>difference in reactions following ingestion of

>aspartame as opposed to ingestion of placebo.

>The study of Geha et al., 1993 illustrates the point .

>

>The FDA gives every appearance of cooperating

>with the aspartame industry in promoting the 'safety' of aspartame.

>Badly flawed industry sponsored studies have gone unchallenged.

>

>Following the unwarranted approval of aspartame,

>the FDA Adverse Reactions Monitoring System

>began receiving, and accepting, unsolicited

>reports of reactions to aspartame. A 26 June

>1997 Memorandum from Technical Information

>Specialist (HFS-728) to Health Hazard Evaluation

>Board reported that the FDA has received 7259

>complaints of adverse reactions attributed to the use of aspartame.

>

>The FDA has a history of minimizing the extent

>and severity of adverse reactions to food.

>Reports of debilitating or life-threatening

>reactions are not routinely investigated, and

>reports of 'death,' for example, are listed as 'other.'

>

>In the late 1990s, the FDA stopped accepting

>reports of adverse reactions to aspartame.

>

>In conclusion, Humphries et al., 2008 suggested

>that 'serious further testing and research be

>undertaken to eliminate any and all

>controversies surrounding this product'. It is

>suggested, rather, that with thoughtful analysis

>of the industry sponsored studies, it will

>become abundantly clear that no legitimate

>controversy about aspartame's toxic potential exists.

>

>

>References

>

>

>

> * Geha R, Buckley CE, Greenberger P,

> Patterson R, Polmar S, Saxon A et al. (1993).

> Aspartame is no more likely than placebo to

> cause urticaria/angioedema: results of a

> multicenter, randomized, double-blind,

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