Aspartame and New Zealand: Bernadene Magnuson continues to lie; My Reply

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Aspartame fears 'not well founded'

By Elspeth McLean

Created 29/09/2008 - 05:00

 

Controversial claims about dangers from the

artificial sweetener aspartame are not

well-founded, a visiting authority on the substance said in Dunedin yesterday.

 

Adjunct professor of nutritional sciences at the

University of Toronto and a consultant

toxicologist, Bernadene Magnuson, is in New

Zealand courtesy of Coca-Cola Oceania.

 

She is lead author of a major expert review of

the safety of aspartame published last year,

which came to the conclusion that it was safe, a

view backed by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.

 

Among the claims by those opposed to the

sweetener are links to nerve damage, epilepsy and brain tumours.

 

Prof Magnuson said although the review was funded

by a producer of the sweetener, researchers did

not know that at the time they were carrying out

the work, nor did the manufacturer know who was on the research panel.

 

Asked if the fact her trip was sponsored by

Coca-Cola might make people think she was here to

get people to drink more artificially sweetened

beverages, Prof Magnuson said it was a matter of

choice whether people used any products

containing aspartame, but they should not make

that choice based on misinformation.

 

Prof Magnuson said New Zealanders, even those at

the top aspartame consumption level, were still

well below the World Health Organisation

acceptable daily intake (ADI) used as the

standard here which is 40mg/kg of bodyweight. (In

2003, New Zealanders' intake was between 6% and

15% of the recommended limit, according to a

survey by Food Safety Australia New Zealand.)

 

To reach the ADI, a 70kg adult would have to

drink 16 cans of softdrink a day or 80 packets of

aspartame used to sweeten tea or coffee, Prof Magnuson said.

 

 

 

 

 

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not-well-founded039#comment-1187>Bernadene

Magnuson is not telling the truth

 

Submitted by DrBettyMartini on Wed, 01/10/2008 - 8:03pm.

 

Bernadene Magnuson won’t tell the truth about

aspartame. She was sent to NZ by Coke because of

lowered Diet Coke sales after an expose in 2007 on NutraSweet.

There is no safe dose of aspartame as it causes

cancer, something admitted by the FDA.

On 8/1/l985 the FDA's own toxicologist, Dr.

Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one 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 cancer causing chemicals in

foods. 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? "

Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

 

The review of the safety of aspartame, often

called the Burdock or Magnuson study, is

industry's defense and it’s rebutted by Mark Gold

of the Aspartame Toxicity Center.

 

I lectured in New Zealand in 2007, and brought

damning documents for the NZFSA to review. They

refused to allow me entrance to their meeting to

avoid having these on record. They side with

industry. The Trocho Study showed the

formaldehyde converted from the free methyl

alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA. Aspartame is poison.

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible Intl,

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia.

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

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

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