Open Data to European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on Aspartame Review

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

Open data to European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on

Aspartame Review

 

 

To EFSA:

 

I have sent you, and UK's Food Standards, evidence that FDA hid

studies damning aspartame and then used them to approve the chemical

as pivotal studies:

http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_hid_research_that_damned_aspartame.htm I

know the aspartame review is next week and I want to make sure all

this data is included.

 

Below is the admission of Cynthia Descher who was at the National

Consumer Conference that an attorney for the FDA actually admitted

they knew aspartame triggered blindness and seizures and caused

cancer in 1986, and that they intended to ban it. Washington DC

Attorney James Turner had filed a Citizens Petition for ban based on

the fact it was causing seizures and people were going blind from

the free methyl alcohol.

 

" " Cynthia Descher "

 

And...MY piece of the puzzle was hearing an attorney for the FDA tell

the National Consumer Conference in February, 1986, (in the large

auditorium in Washington, DC) that: on THAT date, the FDA was

planning to pull aspartame from the market because THEN they KNEW IT

CAUSED BLINDNESS, SEIZURES AND WAS A MULTI-POTENTIAL

CARCINOGEN!!! We know they did NOT DO ANYTHING OF THE KIND and

WHY!!!! But, it surely stuck with me and I have spoken out since that

day knowing something financial and political had stopped it dead in

its tracks!!!...oh, yes, and stopped how many millions of humans, all

ages, all around the world...literally dead in their tracks!!!! THEY

and THOSE who HAVE known and DO know and STILL pass it into public

use will be held accountable if not here, in the hereafter. "

____________________

 

Aspartame was approved by politics instead of science in the first

place so why would we expect anything different in preventing the FDA

from pulling aspartame as they said they would? The defense team

hired both US Prosecutors to prevent indictment for fraud. So it was

worse than being unable to get aspartame to show safety, they used

fraud and got caught. The investigation of two studies exposed the

worthlessness of Searle's work so FDA hid them from the public. Then

they used them as pivotal in the approval. These are facts for which

there is no rebuttal. Anybody attempting to rebut this when its a

matter of public record is holding up a sign and saying " I'm an

industry shill " . Can you disagree?

 

Two FDA toxicologists were on site watching this: Dr. Adrian Gross

and Dr. Jacqueline Verrett. Dr. Gross told Congress aspartame

violated the Delaney Amendment because it caused cancer, therefore no

ADI should have been able to be set. He said FDA violated the law in

approving aspartame. Dr. Verrett told Congress Searle's studies

were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown

out. President Ronald Reagan wrote an Executive Order making the FDA

Commissioner Dr. Jere Goyan powerless to revoke the petition for approval.

 

Since it was admitted by toxicologist, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, that

all the studies were worthless, and she was there and saw them all,

there was no basis for aspartame to ever reach the American

market. It was all crooked political muscle. In November 1987, Dr.

Gross wrote Senator Howard Metzenbaum after aspartame was on the

market 6 years and said:

 

" It is impossible for anyone to appreciate just how a determination

by the FDA that the G. D. Searle & Company experimental studies with

aspartame were of an unacceptable quality in 1976 can be

metamorphosed several years later into a view by that same Agency

that essentially the same studies were sufficiently reliable for

anyone to assess that this food additive is " reasonably certain " to

be safe for consumption by humans. " These worthless and fraudulent

studies were used to approve aspartame. Can you get any closer to

the truth than from the investigators who were there and saw it all

and recorded it.?

 

Disgusting politics and influence has been the game ever since to

smother consumer activism to ban aspartame. When damning studies are

done like the Trocho in Barcelona showing the formaldehyde embalms

living tissue and damages DNA, the NutraSweet people try to

assassinate the character of the researcher, Dr Maria Alemany, who

told me in Barcelona that aspartame can kill 200

million. Considering aspartame is an abortifacient and teratogen,

interacts with drugs and vaccines, triggers neurodegenerative

diseases, precipitates diabetes and causes cancer it's quite possible

Dr. Alemany understated aspartame's devastation.

 

The National Soft Drink Assn announced that aspartame breaks down at

moderate temperatures. It breaks into methyl alcohol, formaldehyde

and the brain tumor agent, DKP. Dr. Woodrow Monte, a food chemist

at Arizona State University argued that aspartame in diet sodas

exposed to Arizona conditions degrades at an accelerated rate.

 

From the book " Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy " by

Andrew Cockburn, you can see where politics had to be used again. Page 69:

 

" Heading off Monte and associated Arizona consumer groups from their

effort to get aspartame banned in the state was clearly a matter of

urgency. Accordingly, election records, depict Searle family

checkbooks again pressed into service delivering campaign

contributions to relevant Arizona politicians. In no time at all a

law glided through the legislature forbidding any state restriction

of a federally approved food additive. " How did they do it? A bill

had been signed on toxic waste. They simply substituted the bill

for the food additive regulation. So its labeled: " Toxic Waste

Bill " . That's apropos for what aspartame really is as discussed by

Dr. Bill Deagle explaining how this poison is genetically engineered.

 

Wrote Dr. Bill Deagle:

" Most people when asked how Aspartame is made do not have the first

step of understanding. While an E.R. doctor and primary care

physician in Augusta, GA in 1987 and 1988, I was told a number of

interesting facts about the adjacent Aspartame factory. Bacteria with

genes inserted generate a sludge which is centrifuged to remove the

aspartame and many hundreds of contaminant organic and amino acids

are present. We were told not to report illness or worker's

compensation issues for fear of being fired by the hospital, now the

Augusta Regional Medical Center. Many of their employees presented

with psychiatric, neuropathy conditions, chronic fatigue and organic

cases of loss of cognitive function. This powder from the dried

sludge was then transported for packaging in factories elsewhere in

the US, before sale as Equal and now the myriad of names of this neurotoxin. "

 

FDA is merely an extension of the power and influence of Big Pharma,

their Branch Office in D.C. Since Hayes became FDA Commissioner in

1981 we have a new FDA: http://www.mpwhi.com/the_new_fda.htm Now

dangerous drugs are regularly approved. Vioxx killed more Americans

than the Viet Nam waar and whistleblower Dr. David Graham revealed

FDA knew all along how fatal it is. Carcinogenic dyes, too, are

protected as Dr. Verrett's exposed in " Eating May be Hazardous to your Health " .

 

Confessed former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Herbert Ley in the San

Francisco Chronicle:

" The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting

them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks

it's doing are as different as night and day. "

 

G. Edward Griffin, author of " World Without Cancer " named the game at FDA:

 

" First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its

payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting

special favors to certain politically influential groups that are

subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the

'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce

FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.

 

" Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has

become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented

companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police

powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.

 

" And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with

whatever energies it has left over after serving the bested political

and commercial interest of its first two activities. "

 

There is political influence in all government agencies, even in

yours. Dr. Herman Koeter, admitted that EFSA was " pressured by

industry to hijack science " , when EFSA tried to rebut the prestigious

Ramazzini study.

 

Hopefully some people in EFSA, Food Standards and FDA want research

to be honest and the consumer protected. Some in the FDA wrote

President Obama what was going on. Although their names have been

blocked out the facts haven't:

http://www.mpwhi.com/dshs_letter_to_president_obama_concerning_fda.pdf

 

This is why I write you. I appeal to those who genuinely have

concern for the public and the world their grandchildren will live

in. I know AF has not invited any of the independent researchers who

have done honest and unbiased research showing aspartame toxicity

like Dr. M. Soffritti or Dr. Maria Alemany.

 

There were studies done in Greece having to do with oncogene results,

and the study in Liverpool showing interaction of such things as

aspartame, MSG and dyes. There are researchers in Hungary who did a

study. Dr. Ralph Walton who did research for 60 Minutes on

scientific peer reviewed studies and funding proved 92% of all

independent studies show the problems aspartame cause. Aspartame

studies by industry have been shown to be either fraudulent or abused

science, and therefore, should not be accepted as proving aspartame

safe. If the original manufacturer couldn't prove its safety even

with fraud don't expect other influenced industry to do it.

 

Here is my report to Food Standards on the allowable daily intake of

aspartame and the free methyl alcohol issue.

http://www.mpwhi.com/statement_for_food_standards_october_2009.htm

FDA toxicologist, Dr. Gross said the FDA shouldn't set an ADI because

aspartame causes cancer. Instead the FDA raised the ADI, no doubt

because they knew the original set would be abused when aspartame was

added to carbonated drinks. It's still abused. There were no

meetings to even allow aspartame to be added to carbonated

beverages. NSDA originally protested:

http://www.mpwhi.com/open_letter_dick_adamson.htm because they knew

it broke down and adulterated even mentioning the adulteration law.

 

From " Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy " : " Aspartame

was finally cleared for use in liquids - that is, diet sodas - in

July 1983, thereby tripling the $200 million aspartame worldwide

market. Hayes left it to his deputy to make the announcement,

possibly because the army inspector-general's report on his

mind-control experiments had leaked to the press just a few days

before and he was disinclined to stir up more controversy. Not long

afterwards he resigned, following news that he had been taking free

rides on corporate jets from the food industry. Not all connections

with Searle were severed, however, since he soon accepted a

consultancy contract from Searle's PR firm, Burson-Marsteller. "

 

The deputy was a man by the name of Mark Novitch who today lives in

Washington, D.C. I called him to ask him why he would do such a

thing but he had a bad case of amnesia stating that this was over 20

years ago and he just couldn't remember a thing. Since I heard even

FDA officials were upset I can understand his forgetfulness. It was

General Food's jet Hayes was flying around in. Hayes reward with

Burson-Marsteller was $1000.00 a day for ten years. That's what

Hayes got for selling his soul.

 

As to the issue of methyl alcohol, I don't have to tell you this is a

severe metabolic poison. In fruits and vegetables it is bound to

pectin and always accompanied by ethanol the antidote for methanol

toxicity. A third of the aspartame molecule digests into wood

alcohol, CH4O, absolutely free and unbound. The alcohol next loses 2

hydrogens to be the undertakers' friend: formaldehyde. CH2O! Add an

oxygen and its formic acid, the venom of fire ants which can kill a

person a million times larger, also known as formate! CH2O2. Formate

is a " blister poison " that kills and runs, transferring cell to cell,

killing as it goes, leaving blisters of dead tissue.

 

So tell me, members of EFSA, how much of this would you like for your

family to consume? Mr. Pape of the National Yogurt Assn has

petitioned the FDA to allow aspartame in yogurt and dairy products

unlabeled. Aspartame and MSG are hidden in artificial and natural

flavors. We can no longer eat processed foods with safety.

 

We know about those like the lady in France who worked for Coke and

those who have association with ILSI, the industry's front research

group. Read about them in the United Press International

investigation of aspartame: http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf

 

Methyl alcohol should not be in our food supply, of

course. Proposition 65 in California wants cancer warnings on any of

the ingredients on its " nasty " list. Methanol and formaldehyde are listed.

 

So read on, the report to Food Standards in long form or as the URL

above. Remember when you have this meeting and there is nothing to

make us think there won't be more industry influence as before, what

is more important, aspartame manufacturers or the continuation of

the human race for your family and grandchildren. Aspartame damages

DNA by which you can destroy humanity. It has already removed a

large chunk and causes horrific suffering throughout the planet. If

you put life before industry influence you can be a hero to the

people of Europe and the world. All the facts have been provided and

industry propaganda is getting old. http://www.dorway.com/offasprt.html

 

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 and www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

 

 

STATEMENT FOR FOOD STANDARDS:

10/15/09 MEETING IN ENGLAND

 

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

Mission Possible World Health International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

Telephone: 770-242-2599

E-Mail: <BettyM19BettyM19

 

 

Aspartame is the most controversial sweetener in world history. The

wars before it was approved and afterwards are legend. Only once in

history had the FDA attempted indictment of a pharmaceutical company.

In the aspartame case both US Prosecutors were recruited by the

defense team so they jumped ship and the statute of limitations

expired. The outcry of people poisoned in the USA was so loud there

were 3 congressional hearings, but not until 1985 because Senator

Orrin Hatch kept them from happening as long as he could. He was on

Monsanto's payroll and it's believed he is the reason a bill to put a

moratorium on aspartame and have NIH do independent studies was

killed. The studies were to be on the problems seen in the population

such as drug interaction, behavioral problems, especially in

children, seizures, and how aspartame damages the fetus.

 

Citizen operations sprang up to warn the public: first Aspartame

Victims And Their Friends and now Mission Possible International, a

non-profit operation in 40 nations. James McDonald heads such an

organization: UK Aspartame Awareness. If aspartame were safe would

these operations exist? Would Detox Centers exist? Would cases of the

sick and dying be multiplying three decades later? Textbooks by

world-renowned physicians, articles, lectures and movies tell the

story of the product Dr. Maria Alemany said could kill 200 million

people. Independent studies, not financed or influenced by industry,

show the problems.

 

If anyone asked if methanol is a severe metabolic poison, the answer

would be yes. Likewise, if someone asked if a neurotoxin or

excitotoxin is a poison the answer would be yes, If asked if

diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent, is a poison the answer would

be yes. Yet, aspartame contains all these poisons, and can be

described as an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, genetically engineered,

carcinogenic drug that interacts with drugs and vaccines and damages

the mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses.

 

Today the world is protesting the Swine Flu Vaccine, which killed 25

children in Britain, which we know of, and thousands of articles on

the Internet announce the dangers of adjuvants. Aspartame is also an

adjuvant. Experts speak about the damage done to those with

mitochondrial dysfunction, so obviously the flu vaccine can harm

aspartame victims the most.

 

The sleazy record of aspartame approval has been told over and over

in reports, movies and books so URL's listed below show how it was

approved through the political chicanery of Donald Rumsfeld.

 

You should hear from the experts, those who have worked so hard

independently to save as many people as possible. These experts are

corporate-neutral of the aspartame industry, unbribed by it,

humanitarian physicians and researchers who cry out: " look at the

facts and save your life " .

 

I address these issues:

 

Anecdotal Reports:

 

Dr. Charles Harris said in 1987: " But the medical profession has a

tendency to discard out of hand, and disparagingly, 'anecdotal'

information. Digitalis, morphine, quinine, atropine, and the like are

chemical derivatives that stem from anecdotal folklore remedies.

After all, one anecdote may be a fable, but 1,000 anecdotes can be a

biography... A vital function of the medical profession is to sift

anecdotes and submit them, if possible, to scientific evaluation. But

it all starts as an anecdote. "

 

For 19 years I've been in contact with 50,000 aspartame victims by

emails, letters, faxes, phone calls, lectures and other means day and

night. I've decided to take Dr. Harris' advice and begin a new

scientific evaluation. An aspartame study will be done with

physicians getting patients off aspartame and recording the findings

the world over. Mission Possible International has been doing this

all these years with aspartame victims eliminating the toxin and

thusly eliminating the symptoms and many of the diseases known to be

triggered by aspartame. More physicians will find out for themselves.

The protocol has been written by an aspartame expert and researcher.

 

 

Free Methyl Alcohol:

 

Dr. James Bowen, M.D. on Aspartame & Methanol

 

" Punditry and Palsies. " The Aspartame methanol issue revisited for

the non-scientist. The knowingly false and highly contrived punditry

position on methanol poisoning from Aspartame is that any such

poisoning cannot exist because " Fruit and vegetable juice has as much

or more methanol than even a heavy consumer would ever get from

Aspartame consumption " This is a fraudulently lying position and,

following herein, are several succinct points that the average non

scientist might like to review to rebut this vacuous punditry.

 

" First the high levels of methanol alluded as coming from juices, ie.

Tomato, orange and apple juice never existed! Methods were used to

make the measurements that could not even detect the minute traces

actually present in the juices, so the minimal readings inherent in

the method were used instead of the actual, undetectably low values

of methanol in the juices. Then punditry methods were used that

produced methanol rather than just measuring it: Flame photometry and

strong nucleophilic colorimetry. All of this is " science falsely so

called " ; A major societal problem at present. Flame photometry uses

the heat of a flame to excite a substance to emit photons that are

then spectrotopically analyzed to measure what is present. Problem is

that the heat of a flame breaks down the healthy nutrients of fruit

and vegetable products into degradation products commonly known as

" smoke " . Yes, smoke has carbon monoxide, methanol, formaldehyde and

all sorts of organic toxins in it as the result of the thermal

breakdown and degradation of the organic matter of which fruits and

vegetables are composed.

 

" From a health standpoint all this points out is that you should not

smoke, nor use Aspartame, which is toxicologically very similar to

smoke. The use of strong nucleophilic reagents to measure methanol,

likewise breaks down fruit and vegetable products to produce it

rather than to just measure methanol. Pectin is the source of the

methanol in this instance. Pectin is at the heart of most vegetal

systems. Just as our heart and blood vessels contain and maintain

much of our circulating body fluids in dynamic equilibrium so pectin

keeps the plants' fluids in a suitable gel form. Pectin is a large

chemical lattice of sugars and alcohols, which serves as a " molecular

sponge " for water, which is why it is useful to make jams and

jellies. (Likewise, unlike Aspartame, they are noted to be healthful

and non-toxic upon thousands of years of widespread human use.)

Methanol is the weakest nucleophile, so when much stronger

nucleophiles are added to the reagent solution, they readily displace

the methanol from the pectin, taking its place in the pectin molecule

and pushing the methanol out as nascent, newly manufactured, free

methanol. This has no relationship whatsoever to the human experience

with fruits and vegetables or their nutritional preparations such as

juices, jams or jellies, but does mimic the production of methanol

when Aspartame breaks down in drinks., i.e. the Persian Gulf Syndrome.

 

" In the human digestive tract quite the opposite occurs with pectin.

The juice, jam or jelly first enters the human digestion containing,

for any practical purposes, no measurable methanol. Upon entering the

stomach it is highly acidified by the stomach acid, which is just the

opposite of being in a nucleophilically reactive environment. This

would be called an electrophilic environment, which would seek then,

by chemical reactivity, to remove nucleophilic substances such as

alcohols from the pectin. Methyl alcohol, being virtually as weak as

water as a nucleophile is not reactive with the stomach acid and is

therefore, not thereby removed from the pectin molecule but remains

an intrinsic part of it. Ethanol (regular old sipping alcohol) is,

however, stripped out of the pectin and absorbed directly through the

stomach wall in amounts that are immediately metabolized by the liver

with no ill effect, but along with the other ethanol present in

juices, rather is protective of methanol poisoning from other

sources. This point is but little appreciated by the medical

profession in general, but is well known to mechanics, who in the

case of accidentally ingesting methanol, will often successfully

treat themselves by merely ingesting orange juice and going on about

their work with no further problems.

 

" I encountered a hair raising account of this bleak medical ignorance

written by a medical doctor who was working in an isolated, remote

refugee camp in southeast Asia. The camp had run out of alcoholic

beverages, which are a medically recognized antidote for methanol

poisoning. They had lots of orange juice and vitamin nutritionals on

hand though, and when one of their medical colleagues was

accidentally poisoned by unknowingly ingesting methanol they had the

horrible, soul wrenching experience of watching their fellow doctor

die the frightening, agonizing, suffering death of methanol

poisoning. They believed his fate to be irreparably sealed and that

he was doomed because they did not have ethanol nor any other known

alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitor available to them to " treat " him

with, while in fact, they had in their very hands the orange juice

and other vitamin protective factors that would have saved their

colleague's life and well being. Such is the medical ignorance

engendered and ingrained in the profession by the punditry lies

designed to protect the indefensible NutraSweet.

 

" This depletion of the ethyl alcohol from pectin, ingested in

nutritional amounts, leaves its binding sites for alcohol highly

unsaturated so the methyl alcohol is held even more tightly as a part

of the pectin molecule and throughout the rest of the assimilative

digestive processes any other traces of methanol, from any other

source, are chemically " sponged up " by the alcohol depleted pectin

and thus snatched from the alimentary canal before it can even be

absorbed. Thus fruit juice is highly protective of methanol poisoning

rather than serving as a source of methanol as the Aspartame pundits

would maintain. Moreover the fruit and vegetable juices contain

relatively high amounts of folic acid, niacin, vitamin C, and B

complex vitamins, which serve to directly detoxify the methanol toxic

axis in the metabolic processes and, are therefore also protective.

 

" On the other hand " NutraSweet " is non nutritional and affords none

of the protective factors afforded by fruit and vegetable juices but

rather consumes them in it's inherent metabolism leaving the human

organism depleted of them on a milligram for milligram basis. This

depletion therefore, is made all the more overwhelming to the health

by the immense volumes of Aspartame products that some consume. The

methanol poisoning from Aspartame is so highly synergized by it's

being estherized into the larger, biologically reactive entirety that

it ends up an alcohol poisoning about twenty thousand times as potent

as the intoxication from ethanol, on a per weight basis, making the

drug and toxic effects of even small amounts of Aspartame significant.

 

" The rest of the story " , as horrifying as it may be, is too long to

be related here but is available in its entirety in articles by

myself and other doctors and scientists on excellent net sites such

as <http://www.dorway.com>http://www.dorway.com,

http://www.mpwhi.com, <http://www.wnho.net>http://www.wnho.net and

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

as well as in Dr. Hyman Robert's excellent medical text. James Bowen, M.D. "

 

 

Dr. Maria Alemany:

 

This is a conversation he and I had on the subject and not a report

written for publication. It is to help people understand the

seriousness of the free methyl alcohol.

 

Stealthy aspartame release of methanol. Correspondence from Dr M Alemany

 

" Aspartame is a peptide in which the free carboxyl esterifies

methanol. Hydrolysis of this ester bond releases methanol, which is

either excreted (breath, urine) or further oxydized to formaldehyde

and later to formic acid, which is eliminated with difficulty through

the 1C pool system. This scheme uses enzymes that can use several

substrates (alcohol oxidases or dehydrogenases, aldehyde oxidases or

dehydrogenases) that help us eliminate ethanol (oxidized to

acetaldehyde and then to acetate). The main difference being the end

product, acetate, easily converted to acetyl-CoA , the main energy

intermediate fueling the Krebs cycle. Formiate is not usable for

energy and constitutes a dangerous product. Its name comes from its

presence in the irritating poison of ants (Latin: formica). However,

the principal problem posed by methanol disposal is the intermediate

oxidized product, formaldehyde, which has a very high reactivity and

reducing power. It binds easily to almost any component of the cell,

and the adducts lose function, thus altering the normal function of

cells. Theoretically formaldehyde (as its parallel compound

acetaldehyde does) can be oxidized to formiate by the aldehyde

dehydrogenase, but all chemical reactions are based on

molecule-to-molecule encounters, and formaldehyde may meet other

proteins (and bind to them) before being caught and processed by the

oxidizing enzyme.

 

" Most polysaccharide methyl esters (such as pectins) may release part

of their methanol upon hydrolysis in the intestinal lumen; the

methanols thus produced can be further metabolized by the biota or

absorbed and processed by poor physiological machinery: absorption,

transport to the liver via portal vein; followed by hepatic oxidation

and/or lung (breath) and kidney (urine) excretion. " Unfortunately,

when methanol enters the bloodstream and the liver could not

eliminate most of it (its alcohol dehydrogenase content varies with

sex, age, disease and ethnic genetic endowment) other tissular

alcohol dehydrogenases convert it into formaldehyde. The retina

contains a very high concentration of alcohol dehydrogenase, which

intervenes in the retinol/retinal interconversion critical in the

process of vision; this enzyme acts on ethanol and methanol in

addition to retinol, and can yield a large amount of the aldehydes in

a small and highly active (and sensitive) nervous tissue. The

consequence of methanol poisoning is thus too often irreversible

damage to the retina, including blindness.

 

" Evidently, the small amounts of methanol that can be released from

aspartame can hardly be compared with drinking methanol-laced

alcoholic beverages, but people with altered hepatic function should

limit even this possibility of poisoning. However, the methanol

released from aspartame is not only produced in the intestine (this

question has not been investigated, but " assumed " ). Experimental data

using labeled aspartame showed that a high proportion of the compound

is absorbed intact (as do a number of small peptides, which are

normally broken up within the intestinal cells themselves and not in

the lumen) and can even be excreted intact in the urine (again, not

investigated). Nevertheless there is sufficient and unassailable

information showing a distribution of methanol moiety-related label

in most of the experimental animals body organs, including the liver,

brain, retina etc.

 

" This means that at least a sizeable part of aspartame is broken up

not in the gut but within tissue cells, probably by the effect of a

number of esterases of the cell membrane and lysosomes. Thus, the

methanol is not released in the gut, carried to the bloodstream and

thus highly diluted, but is produced in tiny amounts directly in the

cells (no dilution-related protection here!) where it is readily

oxidized to formaldehyde... and this 1C highly-reactive aldehyde

binds proteins and nucleic acids generating adducts. If a protein is

affected its function is compromised and is eventually eliminated

(probably through ubiquitinization and proteosome processing) but if

DNA is altered, then its function may be affected in a way similar to

a mutation.

 

" DNA damage may end the viability of the cell, which dies, or produce

an altered cell function and signalling, or --worse-- may deregulate

this cell inducing severe alterations or cancer.

 

" The problem with aspartame is that what we know about pure methanol

poisoning could not be directly applied here because its release and

processing do not follow the robust intestinal-portal-hepatic system

of detoxification, but stealthy goes to cells and induces potential

damage to cells and systems where there is abundance of alcohol

dehydrogenase or an active blood flow and metabolism.

 

" If the methanol released into the cells somehow would end as

formiate (i.e. no losses of formaldehyde in the production of

adducts) then its only ways out would be its complete oxidation to

CO2 or its partial integration into the 1C pool metabolism. A few

reviews (not studies) assumed that the conspicuous presence of

methanol label from aspartame in tissue components was the

consequence of incorporation of 1C fragments to amino acids and

nucleotide bases. However, elementary Biochemistry texts already show

that this incorporation could only be significant in the methyl group

of methionine or in the skeleton of pyrimidines. Chromatographic

analysis of cell components in rats treated with labelled aspartame

showed unequivocally that neither methionine nor pyrimidines showed

the presence of the label, which was distributed into " unknown "

compounds (adducts), in line with what is known of formaldehyde chemistry.

 

" With respect to the problem of ascertaining how much methanol is in

a given amount of aspartame, it is easy, one mol of aspartame yields

one mol of methanol and, potentially, one mol of formaldehyde. The

expression of methanol content in aspartame as a percentage of its

weight is not applicable, since methanol is not a component of

aspartame: you need to add a molecule of water to release it.

Complete hydrolysis of aspartame's two ester bonds needs 2 moles of

water per mol of aspartame, and the weight of the resulting products

is higher (by the incorporation of water) than that of the original product. "

 

Dr. Maria Alemany

Departament de Nutrici Bromatologia

Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Av. Diagonal, 645

08028 Barcelona. Espanya / Espa Spain

tel. 34 93 403 4606; fax 34 93 403 7064

E-mail: malemany

 

Dr. Alemany also said: " The mechanisms of methanol release are

different and this is the main question that my earlier paper showed,

and hence this is why it is so damaging and reconciles the effects

observed on people with the logical conclusion that a few milligrams

of methanol should show a scaled-down (but otherwise identical)

effect comparable to that of ingesting a bottle of wood-spirits. "

 

 

Here is the Trocho Study:

 

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

 

What he is speaking about is what was also addressed by Dr. James

Bowen, that in fruit and vegetables there is also ethanol, the

classic antidote to methanol poisoning, and furthermore, methanol in

fruits and vegetables is bound to pectin.

 

The true facts are well known in medical science, so any physician or

researcher who says otherwise should never have made it out of

chemistry class or medical school. Therefore when aspartame

manufacturers write all the propaganda they do, here in the US they

are in violation of Title 18, Section 1001 of the criminal code,

stumbling the public with full knowledge and fraud. This was the very

law the FDA used to try and indict the manufacturer in the first place.

 

 

Here is that information:

 

January 10, 1977: In a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard

Merrill recommends to U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury

investigate Searle for " apparent violations of the Federal Food,

Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 331 (e), and the Falser Reports to

the Government Act, 18 U.S.C. 1001, for " their willful and knowing

failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required

by the Act, 21 U.S.C. 355 (i) and for concealing material facts and

making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to

establish the safety of (aspartame). "

 

The aspartame industry has given their propaganda to governments

around the world and influenced them. What has bothered me about Food

Standards is I've made the factual information available and FS

continues to use the propaganda.

 

Here is their propaganda answered with medical references:

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

I have sent this to Food Standards before and it remains as if facts

make no different.

 

-------------------------

 

Dr. Woodrow Monte

 

" There is something very wrong going on, something that is killing

good people and causing untold suffering to families and communities

around the world. Never have such a high percentage of us been

afflicted with so many tragic wasting diseases. In the past 30 years

a group of diseases including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's

disease, breast cancer, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis,

melanoma and a once rare birth defect, autism have reached epidemic

proportion in the United States and many other countries of the

world. These changes have come on slowly enough where we seem to be

accepting this as the way life works. You must believe me that the

changes that we have seen over the last generation are unprecedented

in the history of medical science. These are the worst of times---

and the truth is they are the result of a tragic decision made at the

point of a gun by the Food and Drug Administration of the United

States in 1981. The origin of the onset of this plague coincides

perfectly with their approval of Aspartame, an artificial sweetener

that contains methanol that converts into deadly formaldehyde within

the brain and sinew of all who consume it. "

 

September 16, 2009

 

Woodrow C. Monte PhD

Professor of Food Science

Arizona State University

 

Dr. Monte is the author of the peer reviewed journal article:

Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_methanol_and_public_health.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.\

com/aspartame_methanol_and_public_health.pdf

 

 

 

This one was not considered in the original review of aspartame in

Europe. Felicity Mawson, Mission Possible UK and myself spoke with

Miguel Angel Granero Rosell and Peter Wagstaffe in the EU in the 2002

review and I brought them other damning information such as Dr.

Monte's paper and other scientific reports including how industry

creates flawed studies. Only industry studies were used and the

damning scientific information was eliminated. Here is the

Independent Analysis of the " Opinion of the European Commission,

Scientific Committee on Food Update on the Safety of Aspartame /

E951 " (SCF 2002) by Mark Gold:

<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002-response.htm>http://www.holisticme\

d.com/aspartame/scf2002-response.htm

 

 

More of his reports:

 

<http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/review1.shtml>http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.c\

om/review1.shtml

 

 

http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/review2.shtml

 

<http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/pdf/%282%29%20FASEB%20Meeting%201990%20Abstra\

ct%20and%20paper.pdf>http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/pdf/%282%29%20FASEB%20Mee\

ting%201990%20Abstract%20and%20paper.pdf

 

 

http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/pdf/%28202%29%20Monte%20WC.%20Bittersweet%20As\

partame%20Breast%20Cancer%20Link.%20%20Fitness%20Life%202008%20Feb.%2034%2021-22\

..pdf

 

 

If you are interested in how far the aspartame industry will go to

stop hearings on aspartame from people who have the facts this is the

story with Dr. Monte:He tried to get a hearing in Arizona because

aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees and in hot Arizona where the

temperature can be over 100 degrees many days you're talking about

formaldehyde cocktails, especially when they sit out diet pop cans in

front of convenience stores.

 

On Feb 17, l984, the FDA denied Dr. Woodrow Monte and James Turner

the opportunity to hold a safety hearing on questions raised in their

petition (Federal Register l984). G. D. Searle sent a number

lobbyists to the State of Arizona including Andrew Herwitz, Arizona

Governor Babbitt's former Chief of Staff, Charles Pine, a prominent

Arizona lobbyist Roger Thies, a G.D. Searle lawyer and David West, a

G.D. Searle official. (Gordon l987, page 507 of US Senate l987).

 

Dr. Woodrow Monte filed for reconsideration of his petition for a

hearing in Arizona to have aspartame banned. He was granted a hearing

scheduled for April l985. (Gordon l987, page 507 of US Senate l987).

In April l985, in an unusual and secret maneuver, the Arizona

legislature removed the text in a Toxic Waste Bill and used it to

pass a bill which banned the regulation of FDA approved food

additives (Gordon l987, page 508 of US Senate l987). This bill

scuttled the hearing that Dr. Monte had been promised.

 

 

It should also be noted that aspartame is an adulterant and therefore

in the US violates Interstate Commerce Laws. Here is the report by

the National Soft Drink Assn, now American Beverage:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/open_letter_dick_adamson.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/open_let\

ter_dick_adamson.htm

 

 

Note this paragraph:

 

NSDA said: " The present record does not contain data which

demonstrate that the use of APM in soft drinks will not result in the

adulteration of the beverages under section 402 (a)(3)of the FDC Act.

21 U.S.C. 342 (a) (3), which provides that a food is adulterated if

it contains, in whole or in part, " ...a decomposed substance or if it

is otherwise unfit for food. "

 

Because is breaks down and the FDA knows it and reported it couldn't

be heated, the aspartame industry wrote a patent saying they fixed

it, and the FDA allowed it for baking. The only problem is studies

continue to show the breakdown, like Trocho. Even a 12 year old had

Diet Coke in the " fridge " tested by Winston Food Lab which showed the

aspartame had broken down to formaldehyde and DKP, the brain tumor agent.

 

UAREP:

 

I understand Food Standards relies on this report.

 

From the book Aspartame (NutraSweet) Is It Safe? By H. J. Roberts,

M.D Writing about shortcoming in aspartame approval Dr. Roberts says:

 

" The failure to challenge the manufacturer's contract with

Universities Associated for Research and Education in Pathology

(UAREP). This private group was engaged to determine the factual

accuracy of prior aspartame studies - but with the stipulation that

UAREP " shall not express an opinion " regarding either the design or

safety significance of these studies, nor make recommendations about

the safety of aspartame for human use! Dr. M. Adrian Gross (FDA

toxicologist and scientist) also challenged the credentials of UAREP

relative to its ability to assess prior aspartame studies. "

 

Dr. Roberts told me this is the most outrageous thing they did. They

swore UAREP to silence. How much did they get for being silenced? A

half a million dollars!

 

Here is a comment this week about UAREP from Attorney James Turner

who with Dr. John Olney tried to prevent approval of aspartame. He

was there from the beginning, before it was approved

 

" I have been told that Food Standards relies on the UAREP study. This

did not address any of the questions about poor study design,

manipulated data and the key studies and the scientific credibility

raised by the commissioner's task force. It is a complete whitewash

that was unscientific and poorly conducted and the pathologists

should be ashamed of themselves. Anybody in industry who wants a

sound pathology report should avoid any of the pathologists in that

study of UAREP " You must remember who paid for this study - Searle

themselves, $500,000.

 

From the records:

 

On August 4, 1976, G.D. Searle representatives met with the FDA and

convinced them to allow G.D. Searle to hire a private agency,

University Associated for Education in Pathology (UAREP), and pay

them $500,000 to " validate " the other 12 studies (Gordon 1987 page

498 of US Senate 1987)

 

 

According the FDA Commissioner during the early 1980s,Arthur Hull

Hayes, the UAREP investigation was to " make sure that the studies

were actually conducted. "

 

 

As described by Florence Graves (1984, page S5500 of Congressional

Record 1985a):

 

" The pathologists were specifically told that they were not to make a

judgment about aspartame's safety or to look at the designs of the

tests. Why did the FDA choose to have pathologists conduct an

investigation when even some FDA officials acknowledged at the time

that UAREP had a limited task which would only partially shed light

on the validity of Searle's testing? The answer is not clear.

 

" Dr. Kenneth Endicott, Director of UAREP, said in an interview that

the FDA had 'reasons to suspect' that Searle's tests 'were not

entirely honest.' Because the FDA 'had doubts about [searle's]

veracity,' Edicott said, officials wanted UAREP 'to determine whether

the reports were accurate.'

 

" FDA scientist Dr. Adrian Gross, in a letter to an FDA official,

said, 'speaking as a pathologist, it seemed questionable that the

group could do the kind of comprehensive investigation that was

required. He pointed in particular to a variety of issues that needed

to be investigated. He said some of these would involved closely

questioning administrators and lab technicians about their practices.

Since many important issues that should be investigated 'have nothing

to do with pathology,' he said, only trained FDA investigators were

qualified to do a comprehensive evaluation of the testing. . . .,p>

" Meanwhile, an interview with Endicott indicates that Adrian Gross

was right: the pathologists couldn't--and didn't--carry out a

comprehensive review. . . . As former FDA Commissioner Alexander

Schmidt put it in a recent interview, UAREP looked at the slides to

determine whether they had been misrepresented, but didn't look at

the conduct of the experiments in depth. The 1975 [FDA] task force

investigation looked at the conduct of the experiments in depth, but

did not look at the slides. . . . Endicott agreed . . . 'We could

only look at what was there--the tissues.'

 

The findings of this investigation were released in the Bressler

Report in August 1977

 

On December 13, 1978, UAREP submitted its results of their analysis

of 12 of G.D. Searle's aspartame studies. UAREP stated in their

report that " no discrepancies in any of the sponsor's reports that

were of sufficient magnitude or nature that would compromise that

data originally submitted. " (Farber 1989, page 33) Remember, the of UAREP said in an interview that their pathologists did

not conduct a comprehensive review of the studies, they only looked

at the animal tissues (Graves 1984, page S5500 of Congressional Record 1985a).

 

UAREP pathologists who examined the test results were discovered to

have missed and withheld negative findings from the FDA (Gross 1987b,

page 2-5). In some cases, they completely missed cancerous brain

tumors when analyzing the slides. In addition, some of the slides

that were to be examined by UAREP pathologists were missing even

though they where supposed to have been kept under " FDA seal. " (Olney

1987, page 6-7)

 

FDA Toxicologist Adrian Gross stated that the UAREP review " may well

be interpreted as nothing short of a whitewash. " (Farber 1989, page

114).Given that the UAREP review results was so biased in favor of

G.D. Searle, one wonders why the FDA would allow a company being

investigated for fraud to pay $500,000 and hire an outside entity to

" validate " their studies.

 

Even though the UAREP report was biased, there were numerous

instances in that report which demonstrated that G.D. Searle had not

submitted even marginally accurate findings to the FDA of their

pre-approval aspartame tests. For example, in one study, twelve

animals actually had cancerous brain tumors, yet UAREP reported to

the FDA that only three animals had such tumors (Gross 1987b, page 3-4).

 

 

The ADI Issue:

 

Attorney James Turner made this comment:

 

" It also should be noted that the public basically does not know

there is an ADI on aspartame, let alone what it is. Before they got

to 5000 products, a huge number of children were over the ADI. The

FDA stated very early on when they had a small group of products,

there were large numbers of children consuming NutraSweet beyond the

ADI. Secondly, a six pack of orange soda in 1984 exceeded the ADI for

a 10 year old boy, so probably all children using NutraSweet are

exceeding the ADI, and we know from the many studies people used

NutraSweet gained weight. Now we have an obesity epidemic as expected. "

 

 

Ralph Walton, M.D., did research for 60 Minutes on scientific peer

reviewed studies and funding

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

and also did his own study. Here are his remarks about the ADI:

 

" With regard to the issue of the ADI, in our 1993 double blind study

on adverse reactions to aspartame subjects received a daily aspartame

dose of 30mg/kg - well below the upper limit of 50mg/kg/day which the

FDA considered " safe. " The adverse reactions were so severe that our

Institutional Review Board halted the study prior to its completion.

It is my personal opinion that the only truly safe daily intake of

aspartame is zero, but the study clearly demonstrated that an intake

of 30mg/kg is extremely hazardous " .

 

 

Dr. Adrian Gross in a letter to Senator Howard Metzenbaum in Oct 1987

made this comment about the ADI:

 

" This concludes my remarks on the quality or reliability of the

experimental studies with aspartame carried out by the GD Searle &

Co. or by the contractors working under the direction of that firm.

Since Mr. Wagoner of your Office has requested my comments in a very

short period of time, I am expediting this letter to you now;

however, I plan to send you in the very near future an additional

communications where two other issues are discussed in some detail:-

the problem with the brain tumors induced by aspartame and that the

FDA's having set a very high (and, to my view, clearly dangerous)

level of Acceptable Daily Intake, or ADI, for this particular food

additive in the diet of humans. "

 

 

It was Dr. Adrian Gross who told Congress in 1985 that since

aspartame causes cancer they should not be able to set an ADI for

aspartame at all.

 

On August 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 SID83 5:131 (August 1, l985)

 

In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in soft drinks and the FDA

doubled the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of aspartame from 20 mg/kg

to 50 mg/kg. Aspartame. Does that date tell you anything? There is no

acceptable ADI for a poison. However, when aspartame was approved in

carbonated soft drinks it was well known that immediately the ADI

they already had would be abused, so it was raised and, of course,

that can be abused as well. Aspartame is very addictive. The free

methyl alcohol is classified as a narcotic. (Louis, R. J. Sax's

Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, Eighth Edition, New

York: Van Nostrand Reingold (1992) pp. 2251-2252. It causes chronic

methanol poisoning which affects the dopamine system of the brain and

causes the addiction.

 

Food Standards Study:

 

Consider what Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center wrote about

a small amount of aspartame for a study:

 

" NutraSweet researchers have made a significant effort to convince

other researchers and the general population that it is okay to test

using small doses of aspartame. Much of their argument is based on

average intake values presented in their ridiculous intake surveys.

The fact is that hundreds of thousands of people are consuming

amounts of aspartame approaching the FDA's Acceptable Daily Intake

level. If the NutraSweet Company actually believes that the FDA's ADI

is a safe amount of aspartame, then that is the minimum that should

be tested. Either " put up, or shut up " so to speak. In order to have

a safety margin, it is preferable to test at least double the ADI

using read-world aspartame-containing products in long-term experiments.

 

" If they do not want to test at levels at or above the FDA's ADI

(using real-world aspartame of course), then we should 1) lower the

ADI back to 20 mg/kg/day, 2) label the amount of aspartame on each

" food " product that it is in, 3) put a warning on the label stating

that no more than 20 mg/kg/day (9 mg/lbs./day) should be consumed,

and 4) start proper safety testing in humans at 20 mg/kg/day (or

more) using real-world aspartame-containing products. "

 

 

Also, I might mention that today in 2009 most independent aspartame

experts, are of the opinion that human studies should no longer be

done because after more than 3 decades and continual independent

research it has been established beyond any doubt that aspartame is a

chemical poison and harm is done to the participants. In fact, in Dr.

Walton's study the administrator of the facility took part in his

study and sustained a retinal detachment and lost the vision in one

eye, and this was under the ADI for aspartame. Food Standards may

call this anecdotal but I'm sure the administrator calls it blindness

in one eye from aspartame.

 

When Food Standards considers aspartame reactors it needs to

understand the nature of this poison. It triggers chemical

hypersensitization. Therefore, if someone gets off aspartame and

accidentally ingests some they can react seriously, even go into

anaphylactic shock. Cases have been reported. In the movie, Sweet

Misery: A Poisoned World, Cheryl Kemptner was interviewed. With full

knowledge aspartame triggers polychemical sensitivity syndrome, and

knowing if she accidentally got some she could react, she notified

the hospital on entrance that she could not be given aspartame.

Unfortunately she was given a glass of Crystal Lite with aspartame,

became a Code Blue and was resuscitated. I've tried to explain this to you.

 

 

Consider the reactions with this ADI. Dr. H. J. Roberts reported in

the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic:

 

" A severe metabolic acidosis might be induced clinically after the

ingestion of a large amount of aspartame, especially by children. A

London physician wrote about his nine year old daughter who had been

given an aspartame cola.

 

" In all, she probably drank about 1.5 litres over a 24 hour period

together with eating a few slices of toast in the same 24 hours. The

following morning she was found semi-conscious and confused. She had

a metabolic ketoacidosis, but a normal blood sugar on admission to

the hospital. Tests for metabolic poisons such as aspirin were

negative. Fortunately, rehydration restored her to normal

biochemically within 4 - 5 hours together with restoration to normal

levels of consciousness. I thought at the time that the diet cola

could be responsible, but could not find any evidence to support

this. The company in the UK was very defensive about the effects of

aspartame, and denied any knowledge of the adverse effects of aspartame. "

 

 

Further Dr. H. J. Roberts discusses the ADI:

 

" Dr. Frank E. Young, former FDA Commissioner, defined the ADI during

the November 3, 1987 Senate hearing on aspartame as " an estimate of

the amount of the food additive expressed on a body weight basis in

animal studies, that can be ingested daily over a " lifetime " without

appreciable health risk. It focuses on continued exposure over a

lifetime, and not on the exposure that could occur on any given day " .

 

 

Dr. Roberts quotes Dr. Adrian Gross on the ADI in a Congressional

statement: " It is clear that risks of this magnitude for what the FDA

regards as a 'safe' level of exposure to aspartame represent an

outright calamity or disaster. " ...Senator Howard Metzenbaum took the

FDA to task for increasing the acceptable daily maximum intake of

aspartame from 20 mg/kg body weight to 50 mg/kg. He noted that this

action represented an exception to the usual 100-food safety factor

used for regulated food additives.

 

Dr. Roberts discusses the adverse effects of small doses:

 

" Severe reactions to small amounts of aspartame, as from chewing a

stick of gum, were described in Chapter II-E. It is obvious that such

intake does not begin to approach the ADI. Two possible mechanisms

for the rapid entry of aspartame are absorption from the mouth into

the blood stream (akin to the placement of nitroglycerine under the

tongue in treating angina pectoris) and direct entry from the

oropharynx into the brain. "

 

" Pardridge (1987, p. 206) asserted that the 10 mg/kg aspartame intake

regarded by Levy and Waisbren (1987) as " large amounts " could be

consumed by a 50 pound child drinking a single can (12 ounces) of a

carbonated aspartame beverage. "

 

" Children weighing 45 pounds who drink a two liter bottle of an

aspartame cola beverage (containing over 1,100 mg aspartame and 110

mg. Methyl alcohol) already have exceeded the daily limit.

Furthermore, they could have easily consumed 30 mg/kg aspartame

before dinner in the form of cereals, chocolate milk, milk shakes,

chocolate pudding, gelatins, cereals, orange drinks, chewing or

bubble gum, and numerous other products so sweetened. "

 

 

How is Aspartame Made:

 

Dr. Deagle explains how aspartame is genetically engineered:

 

" Most people when asked how Aspartame is made do not have the first

step of understanding. While an E.R. doctor and primary care

physician in Augusta, GA in 1987 and 1988, I was told a number of

interesting facts about the adjacent Aspartame factory. Bacteria with

genes inserted generate a sludge which is centrifuged to remove the

aspartame and many hundreds of contaminant organic and amino acids

are present. We were told not to report illness or worker's

compensation issues for fear of being fired by the hospital, now the

Augusta Regional Medical Center. Many of their employees presented

with psychiatric, neuropathy conditions, chronic fatigue and organic

cases of loss of cognitive function. This powder from the dried

sludge was then transported for packaging in factories elsewhere in

the US, before sale as Equal and now the myriad of names of this

neurotoxin. " Bill Deagle, M.D.

 

Dr. Deagle told me he considers aspartame more dangerous than

depleted uranium because of its ubiquitous presence in food.

 

 

Dr. Richard Caldecott of the Atomic Energy Commission said in 1961:

 

" By far the most mutagenic agents known to man are chemicals, not

radiation. And in this regard, food additive rather than fallout at

present levels may present a greater danger. "

 

 

Discussion: Today aspartame is in over 100 countries of the world.

This is how it got approved in England:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/how_aspartame_got_approved_in_england.htm>http://www.mpwhi\

..com/how_aspartame_got_approved_in_england.htm

 

 

G.D. Searle executives admitted to " payments to employees of certain

foreign governments to obtain sales of their products. " (Searle 1975)

 

When I was in New Zealand interviewing Food Standards I was told they

did no studies on aspartame but accepted the FDA approvals. They were

rubberstamped around the world.

 

In a follow up letter to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, November 3, 1987

Dr. Gross states: " It is impossible for anyone to appreciate just how

a determination by the FDA that the G.D. Searle & Co. experimental

studies with aspartame were of an unacceptable quality in 1976 can be

metamorphosed several years later into a view by that same Agency

that essentially the same studies were sufficiently reliable for

anyone to assess that this food additive is " reasonably certain " to

be safe for consumption by humans.

 

" Even if, contrary to the FDA's view in 1976, the quality of the

conduct of those studies could be relied upon by the same agency to

even begin making such a determination, at least one of those studies

had reveled a highly significant dose-related increase in the

incidence of brain tumors as a result of exposure to aspartame. The

full incidence of those brain tumors was not disclosed by G.D. Searle

& Co. to the FDA prior to the initial approval for the marketing of

aspartame in 1974; moreover, the review of that study in the FDA was

so flawed that the Agency apparently did not even realize that at the

time, only a portion of the observations on brain tumors had in fact

been submitted by G.D. Searle & Co. in their petition for that approval. "

 

Aspartame couldn't be proven safe in 1976 and in 1977 the FDA asked

for Searle's indictment for fraud. Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, FDA

toxicologist, testified to Congress in 1987 and told them aspartame

still hadn't been proven safe:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/j_verrett_testimony.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/j_verrett_tes\

timony.pdf

 

 

 

The Trocho 1998 Study showed not only was aspartame not safe but

embalms living tissue and damages DNA. When you damage DNA you can

destroy humanity. In 2005 and 2007 the Ramazzini Studies showed

aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen confirming FDA's own

records. Aspartame triggers many types of tumors in original studies

and neoplasms were filtered out by Searle as the Bressler Report

admitted. EFSA tried to rebut these prestigious studies peer reviewed

by 7 world experts with absurdity. However, Dr. Herman Koeter of

EFSA, before he left reported they were pressured by industry to

hijack science.

 

The controversy on aspartame continues to rage, the reason for the

review by EFSA, but no " real " independent researchers and experts "

like those mentioned in this report have been invited to the meeting

in November. They have people on their committee with ties to

industry who influence any outcome.

 

So aspartame has never been proved safe and cannot be. Industry

finances quack studies from rubber duck labs.

 

Food Standards has been asked to remove industry flacks' rebuttals

from prestigious independent studies like the Trocho Study. Tephly

was used in this case who finally confessed he used the wrong type of

tests. Who is he?

 

A series of poorly conceived, flawed studies funded by G.D. Searle

were published in Volume 2 (1976) of the Journal of Toxicology and

Environmental Health. An Associate Editor of this scientific journal

was Robert G. McConnell, the Director of G.D. Searle's Department of

Pathology and Toxicology (the department responsible for monitoring

the quality of G.D. Searle's pre approval tests investigated by the

1975 FDA Task Force). Another G.D. Searle employee, Carl R.Mackerer

was an editor of the journal. Another editor of the journal was

Thomas R. Tephly, the person responsible for conducting a series of

badly flawed blood methanol and formate measurements in

NutraSweet-funded studies over the last 20 years.

 

Yet, Food Standards allows Tephly to rebut the Trocho Study. This is shameful.

 

 

Here is what Dr. Adrian Gross said about Searle in the Task Force report:

 

" They [G.D. Searle] lied and they didn't submit the real nature of

their observations because had they done that it is more than likely

that a great number of these studies would have been rejected simply

for adequacy. What Searle did, they took great pains to camouflage

these shortcomings of the study. As I say filter and just present to

the FDA what they wished the FDA to know and they did other terrible

things for instance animals would develop tumors while they were

under study. Well they would remove these tumors from the animals. "

 

 

No wonder Searle sued to remove the Task Force Findings on aspartame.

 

On March 24, 1976 The FDA's task force reported: " At the heart of the

FDA's regulatory process is its ability to rely upon the integrity of

the basic safety data submitted by sponsors of regulated products.

Our investigation clearly demonstrates that, in the G. D. Searle

Company, we have no basis for such reliance now. " The task force

further said, " Some of our findings suggest an attitude of disregard

for FDA's mission of protection of the public health by selectively

reporting the results of studies in a manner which allays the

concerns of questions of an FDA reviewer. "

 

Food Standards was set up to distance itself from industry, but

pushes aspartame propaganda. If aspartame is safe it means all FDA's

records up until Don Rumsfeld got it on the market, the testimonies

of " independent " prominent researchers and physicians to Congress,

FDA's report of 92 documented symptoms on aspartame, all independent

studies, medical texts on the dangers and multitudes of articles

exposing its toxicity as well as case histories around the world are

lies. Read the testimony of Dr. Paula Rhodes who had an Aspartame

Toxicity Clinic in Atlanta. She was on Channel 4, Jacksonville,

Florida:

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5258/detail.html

 

 

 

Consider the words of Barbara Mullarkey quoted in one of Dr. H. J.

Roberts books: Sweet'ner Dearest: Bittersweet Vignettes About

Aspartame (NutraSweet). She was restating Dr. Robert Moser's words

from The Pharos (Summer 1991) journal of Alpha Omega Alpha (an honor

medical society based on his talk to Yale Medical Students. Dr. Moser

works as a consultant for NutraSweet and defends aspartame.

 

" If you hate people, you can spend your life plugged into a mountain

of shining diagnostic equipment or perched beside an electron

microscope. Or you can become a cruise-ship doctor and play

patty-cake with rich, blue-haired widows, or you can become a

department chairman at Yale, or you can work for The NutraSweet Company. "

 

 

All I'm asking is that Food Standards speak the truth. Setting the

facts straight can save millions of lives and Europe can become a

hero to the world in banning it. You can't leave out these facts

because it becomes deception by omission. The aspartame industry are

scholars at this, and even if damning studies by independents get to

the public they get a flack to rebut it. Anyone consuming aspartame

can react to drugs to treat the problems this poison triggers and

many of these drugs actually contain aspartame.

 

This report has only addressed a couple of issues dealing with the

ADI, methanol and testing. For instance, when the Bressler Report

(FDA audit) was completed, the FDA retyped it leaving out the worst

20%, investigation of two mouse studies, comments by a top FDA

scientist, Dr. Xavier Collins. As Jerome Bressler said to Lane Shore

and myself: " Without his name and the two missing mouse studies this

report is incomplete. " They have been under FDA seal for 3 decades.

FDA didn't want the public to learn how bad Searle studies were.

Mission Possible has now obtained these documents and is ready for

the world to read them.

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

Founder, Mission Possible World Health International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770-242-2599

E-Mail: <BettyM19BettyM19

http://www.wpwhi.com

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http://www.dorway.com

 

Aspartame Toxicity Center:

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

 

Clip from Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World by DC Attorney James Turner

on how aspartame was approved:

<http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages\

/rumsfeld.html

 

 

History of Aspartame by former FDA Investigator, Arthur Evangelista:

<http://www.wnho.net/history_of_aspartame.htm>http://www.wnho.net/history_of_asp\

artame.htm

 

 

Ecologist: Shocking Story of the World's Best Selling Sweetener:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologis\

t_september_2005.pdf

 

 

Proposition 65, California: If any product has anything on the

" nasty " list they require a cancer warning to come into California.

Aspartame has two of them - methanol and formaldehyde.

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o_cynthia_oshita.htm