Hawaii House Concurrent Resolution 128 Against Aspartame

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http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?14640df9-6f45-484c-b677-6f572167798e22 Hawaii House of Representatives Members Sign Resolution asking FDA to Rescind Approval for Neurotoxic AspartameBy Stephen Fox, 3/19/2009 11:14:21 AMFor those of your readers who might sometimes be concerned about their own health and about Consumer Protection in general, the Hawaii House of Representatives has moved forward an extraordinary Resolution asking the FDA to rescind the approval for Aspartame.This Resolution is particularly auspicious and significant because both the Chair and the Vice Chair of the House Health Committee, as well as the Vice Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee, have signed on as cosponsors. This means the measure will receive a scheduled hearing in the House Health Committee, something that was denied last year by Senate Health Chairman David Ige for the Senate Resolution, as well as the Senate Bill to ban aspartame outright. It will go to House Finance Committee after the Health Committee referral.The text of HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 128 Resolution is available here: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/HCR128_.HTMand although perhaps tedious and precise to some, clearly indicates the reasons that such a recinding of aspartame's approval by the FDA is appropriate and long overdue, an approval which to its credit, the FDA rejected for many years before it was forced in 1981 by then President of G.D. Searle, Donald Rumsfeld.[You personally could write in support of this long overdue and obvious imperative to Margaret Hamburg, M.D., FDA Commissioner, 5400 Fisher's Lane, Rockville Md., or to commissioner, and to her Deputy, Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., as well as to the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius; you should also ask your US Senators and Representatives to also do this] =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.