NEW STUDY PROVES LOW DOSES OF ASPARTAME CAUSE CANCER

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My Comment: Aspartame is a sugar substitute that goes by several barnd

names - NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure.

 

NEW STUDY PROVES LOW DOSES OF ASPARTAME CAUSE CANCER

_http://www.mpwhi.com/new_soffritti_study_on_aspartame.htm_

(http://www.mpwhi.com/new_soffritti_study_on_aspartame.htm)

 

Dr. Betty Martini

Mission Possible World Health International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097 T

elephone: 770-242-2599

E-Mail: _BettyM19_ (BettyM19)

 

 

Posted: 15 June 2007

 

 

Environmental Health Perspectives, the Journal of the U.S. National

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ranks first among more than 200

environmental science and occupational health journals and is read in 190

countries.

 

 

At New York's Mt Sinai School of Medicine DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI was

honored in April with the Irving J Selikoff Award for Outstanding contributions

to the identification of environmental and industrial carcinogens, and his

promotion of independent scientific research.

 

 

The prestigious Selikoff Award is only granted for groundbreaking cancer

research. It was created 1993 by the Collegium Ramazzini, an academy of

180internationally renowned experts in occupational and environmental health

from over 30 nations. It has been awarded just twice before being presented

to Dr. Soffritti.

 

 

His research was conducted for 36 months using 1,800 rats. It forced the

conclusion that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. Cancers aspartame

produced included leukemia, lymphoma, kidney, and cranial peripheral nerves

among others. Only the rats fed aspartame got malignant brain tumors. This

prodigious work was peer reviewed by 7 world experts.

 

 

This work confirmed studies presented to the FDA 25 years ago that

documented a catalogue of brain, uterine, ovarian, testicular, mammary,

pancreatic

and thyroid tumors. Based on the evidence FDA denied approval of aspartame

for 16 years from the time it was discovered. Then Don Rumsfeld, who was

the CEO of NutraSweet's parent, the G. D. Searle Co., went to Washington to

be newly elected Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense. The existing FDA

Commissioner was asked to resign and aspartame was approved by Arthur Hull

Hayes appointed by President Reagan. He did this over the objections of the

FDA's scientific Board of Inquiry who had revoked the petition. President

Reagan had written an executive order making FDA powerless to do anything about

aspartame until Hayes could get to FDA. Now the floundering Searle became

profitable. The compromised FDA had full knowledge of aspartame's toxicity

and the approval of this deadly carcinogen sentenced millions to disability

and death.

 

 

An Atlanta Journal Constitution article dated 9/25/85 was titled " Reagan

Says He Quit Using Sweeteners " . It was in l985 there were two congressional

hearings over the outrage of the public being poisoned. In this article it

states: " President Reagan says he quit using artificial sweeteners because

" we don't know what is in them, " .. Unfortunately it was too late for the

public as the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled

in favor of NutraSweet, even though it was known that the FDA had asked

for the indictment for Searle, and revoked the petition for approval.

 

 

Soffritti's new study " Lifespan Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame

Beginning During Prenatal Life Increases Cancer Effects in Rats " focused on

damage

from low-dosage aspartame consumption over the long term and clearly

demonstrated a great danger to unborn babies and children. Newly identified is

risk of breast cancer as the aspartame using child matures.

 

 

Exposures were at low doses. A 20 kg (45 pounds) child drinking 2 cans of

diet soda a day brings into his body 400 mg. of aspartame. Food & Drink

Weekly reports that soda is the most commonly consumed beverage among children

and soft drink consumption is up 500% over the last 50 years. American

consumption has skyrocketed to over 600 12-ounce servings per person per year,

and climbing. Cokes goal is to jump sales 25% annually.

 

 

The aim of Soffritti's new study was to identify the cancer risk aspartame

presents, starting with the mother's ingestion before the fetus is born.

The study was conducted on groups of 70-95 male and female Sprague Dawley

rats, administered aspartame with feed at concentrations of 2000, 400, or 0

ppm from the 12th day of fetal life until natural death.

 

 

The results of this carcinogenicity bioassay confirm and reinforce the

earlier study's demonstration of aspartame's multipotential carcinogenicity.

Further, the study demonstrates that when lifespan exposure to aspartame

begins during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects magnify.

 

 

Dr. Philip Landrigan, Chairman of Community and Environmental Medicine at

Mt. Sinai Medical Center, says Dr. Soffritti's study on rats strongly

implies human risk. He advises parents of young children to think very very

carefully about giving drinks and other aspartame-contaminated foods to

children. He advocates federal action be taken to review regulation of aspartame

and that the chemical be submitted for precise critical investigation.

 

 

The abstract and link to the full text to be published on EHP online, is

on the homepage of the European Ramazzini Foundation:

_http://www.ramazzini.it_ (http://www.ramazzini.it/)

 

 

Il secondo studio Ramazzini sullaspartame in stampa sul giornale

scientifico Environmental Health Perspectives Un secondo studio sul

dolcificante

artificiale aspartame, della Fondazione Europea Ramazzini, dal titolo

LEsposizione ad Aspartame a Basse Dosi, dalla Vita Fetale e per Tutta la Vita,

Aumenta gli Effetti Cancerogeni sui Ratti, tato accettato per essere pubblicato

su Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Labstract e il pdf del testo

completo di EHP online, isponibile nella homepage della Fondazione Europea

Ramazzini: _http://www.ramazzini.it_ (http://www.ramazzini.it/)

 

 

Aspartame carcinogenicity has been known for decades. In 1985 Dr Adrian

Gross, FDA toxicologist, warned Congress that aspartame violates the Delaney

Amendment which prohibits from our foods any ingredient causing cancer in

animals.

 

 

See two letters Dr. Gross addressed to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, and the

memo that triggered a request for indictment of Searle for fraudulent

submissions: _http://www.dorway.com/gross.txt_ (http://www.dorway.com/gross.txt)

Both US Prosecutors hired on the defense team and the statute of

limitations expired.

 

 

Atty. James Turner, author of the Chemical Feast and the Nader Report on

Food Protection at FDA, explains: " Since l974 FDA and the Searle Drug

Company have known that aspartame causes brain tumors in animals. In 1980 the

public has known the Public Board of Inquiry affirmed the Searle studies showed

cancer in animals and ruled that it should not be used in the food supply.

It is past time that the FDA invoked the Delaney Clause and remove

NutraSweet from the market. In July of 2005 further studies (Ramazzini)

underscored the cancer causing capability of NutraSweet/aspartame in animals. "

 

 

See Mr. Turner in Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World explain how Rumsfeld's

aspartame got approved after FDA said no.

_http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html_

(http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html)

 

 

Ralph G. Walton, M.D. of Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, Erie, PA,

emphasizes: " Dr. Soffritti's two outstanding studies on the multipotential

carcinogenic effects of aspartame add significantly to the ever-growing body of

evidence on the hazards of this artificial sweetener. The FDA's stubborn

adherence to their original, and controversial, approval of aspartame is

unconscionable. The public must be informed that the approvals, both in this

country and Europe, are based on highly questionable industry-funded research,

or, in the case of recently issued statements on aspartame's supposed safety,

on a questionnaire which in no way represents legitimate research.

Independent research, such as the recent Soffritti studies invariably

demonstrates

the extremely hazardous nature of this product. "

_http://www.safeharborbh.org_ (http://www.safeharborbh.org/)

 

 

When the Ramazzini 2005 study was released the government and aspartame

manufacturers were responsible for a coverup. They found an old AARP survey

sent to a million American seniors: 16 pages with 56 questions. It asked:

How high did you go in school? Had a hysterectomy? Do you eat brownies?

Oatmeal? Margarine? Question #25 asked " Over the last 12 months when you drank

coffee or tea, what kind of sweetener did you regularly add? " There were 6

multi-choice selections, one of which was: Equal or aspartame.

 

 

The 10 year old 3-word item instantaneously converted the questionnaire

into the biggest aspartame study in history! It showed no problems at all!

(None were asked for!) Thru saturation news releases this propaganda spread

planetwide in major magazines and other media.

_http://www.wnho.net/halt_the_spin_on_bogus_studies.htm_

(http://www.wnho.net/halt_the_spin_on_bogus_studies.htm)

 

 

Dr. Soffritti's work was presented to the European Food Safety Authority

(EFSA). The EFSA risk assessment has been criticized from the beginning

because of conflicts of interest among the panel members, particularly the

chair Susan Barlow, who is an industry consultant. They rejected Dr.

Soffritti's study with the lame excuse that cancers were caused by lung

infections.

Eminent Researchers and scientists know that respiratory infection is a

factor in the dying process and never took their excuse as noteworthy.

 

 

Ramazzinis control rats had a much lower incidence of cancers than the

aspartame-fed rats. Critics of EFSA's risk assessment said that if the cancers

were caused by inflammatory lung disease than the control group would have

had as many cancers as the rats fed aspartame.

 

 

EFSA didn't apologize so they were reported to the Universal Court of

Justice. Then EFSA's Dr. Koeter admitted that industry pressured them to hijack

science. _http://www.wnho.net/letter_to_efsa.htm_

(http://www.wnho.net/letter_to_efsa.htm)

 

 

Dr. H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP, author of several texts on aspartame

disease commented: " The elegant studies by Dr. Morando Soffritti and his

colleagues, coupled with other recent related publications, reinforce my

longstanding opinion that aspartame products represent carcinogens -- or

co-carcinogens -- for several major tumors in humans, especially involving the

brain.

 

 

" The details appear in my text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

and in my article, Does Aspartame Cause Human Brain Cancer? The latter

indicated that aspartame or its metabolites " might activate one or more

oncogenes

that potentate or initiate cell mitosis, either by direct or indirect

effects

 

 

" The failure of the FDA to acknowledge and act on the ongoing revelations

over the last two decades about the hazards of aspartame products in a

number of realms, especially when taken by children and pregnant women, remains

a source of professional embarrassment. This chemical constitutes an

imminent public health hazard. I congratulate Dr. Soffritti for independently

underscoring this warning. "

 

 

Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock remarked on Dr. Soffritti's first study:

" The study released in the European Journal of oncology by Morando

Soffritti and co-workers should terrify mothers and all those consuming

aspartame

sweetened products. This was a carefully done study, which clearly

demonstrated a statistically significant increase in several types of lymphomas

and

leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have increased significantly

in this country since the widespread use of aspartame.

 

 

" The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with cancers. Along

with this most recent study, this means that drinking a single diet cola

sweetened with developing a lymphoma or leukemia.

 

 

" They also found an increased incidence of malignant brain tumors, even

though it was not statistically significant. This does not mean there is no

association to brain tumors, since only the animals exposed to aspartame

developed the tumors. With children and pregnant women drinking the largest

amount of diet colas, this puts their children at the greatest risk of

developing one of these horrible diseases. Their study found that even low doses

of aspartame could cause these malignancies; yet, the higher the dose, the

more cancers that were seen.

 

 

" Since aspartame can increase obesity and may even cause the metabolic

syndrome that affects 48 million Americans, there is no reason to ever consume

this product. At the least it should be immediately banned from all

schools. " Dr. Blaylock is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills about

aspartame. In order to save the children this Report For Schools is repeatedly

sent to schools and boards of education.

_http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm_

(http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm)

 

 

Will FDA finally admit aspartame approval was illegal, violating Delaney

and also adulteration statutes? Aspartame is sold as an additive, but it's a

deadly excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts with all drugs

and vaccines. Aspartame brain tumor cases from New York and New Jersey are

being taken at this time.

 

 

Just when you think the FDA can't sink lower, they do. They issued a

report the day before the release of the new study, denying its research,

without any excuse. This was about the 2005 study but releasing this negative

statement the day before the new one stands to confuse the public, as they

intend. _http://www.wnho.net/open_letter_to_laura_tarantino_fda.htm_

(http://www.wnho.net/open_letter_to_laura_tarantino_fda.htm)

 

 

After a study sponsored by Food Standards in the UK showed additives cause

behavioral problems in children, large food chains there began the removal

of aspartame from their products. But not the FDA in the US who have known

this for a quarter of a century.

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