New Zealand: NGO's Call for Diet Drink's Aspartame to Be Dumped

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NGO's call for Diet drink's aspartame to be dumped

 

Monday, 11 January 2010, 11:00 am

Press Release: Soil and Health Association

 

Media Release

Attention; Health, Nutrition, Consumer, Trade, Food, Science Reporters.

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand

(Est. 1941)

Publishers of ORGANIC NZ

 

10 January 2010

 

NGO's call for Diet drink's aspartame to be dumped in favour of

natural sweeteners.

 

Safe food campaigning NGO's are once again calling for drinks and

foods containing artificial sweeteners to be taken out of supermarket

trolleys and 2010 school tuck-shops.

 

The Soil & Health Association of New Zealand and Safe Food Campaign

point out that the sweetener aspartame in Diet drinks, and most

sugar-free gums, is widely accepted to be dangerous and safe

naturally derived alternatives are available.

 

Following a campaign throughout 2007-8 by Safe Food Campaign, Soil &

Health Association of NZ, and anti-aspartame campaigner Abby Cormack,

there was a world first 5% drop in Diet drink sales and a 50% drop in

chewing gum sales containing aspartame.

 

Abby Cormack had suffered serious health problems following a high

consumption of Extra gum and use of some Diet drinks.

 

However the NGO's are concerned that public relations work by Coca

Cola may have lifted sales of Diet drinks containing the neurotoxic

artificial sweetener aspartame again. Internationally the big two

beverage manufacturers, Coca Cola and Pepsi are beginning to use new

naturally derived stevia sweeteners in response to consumer demands.

 

" While in our earlier campaign we were successful lifting public

awareness about the dangers of aspartame it is important that those

gains for peoples health are continued, " said Abby Cormack.

 

" It is disturbing that the government has reversed the healthy foods

in schools program and allowed junk foods again. Neither the Diet

labelled aspartame containing drinks or the heavily sugar laden

drinks belong in school tuck shops. "

 

" I don't wish my past health problems on anyone, least of all New

Zealand children. "

 

" With the natural sweetener stevia already approved by Food Standards

Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), there is no need to be selling

aspartame containing foods and beverages in New Zealand, " said Soil &

Health spokesperson Steffan Browning.

 

" Soil & Health and Safe Food Campaign want junk drinks, especially

those containing aspartame, out of schools for 2010. There is no need

to compound the health issues such as obesity in New Zealand children

by using neurotoxic and carcinogenic containing products in tuck-shops. "

 

Soil & Health promotes the use of natural sweeteners that fit its

motto of 'Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People,' and aspires to

an Organic 2020.

 

Notes:

Aspartame (951, Equal, Nutrasweet) is an artificial sweetener found

in many products including diet drinks, sugar free products, dietary

supplements, sports drinks and medications.

Aspartame has been linked to many health symptoms, including those

expressed as ADHD, anxiety, depression, irritability, confusion,

memory loss, insomnia, dizziness, migraines, cramps, abdominal pain,

numbness or tingling of extremities, rashes, chronic fatigue, and

sight and personality changes.

 

<http://www.safefood.org.nz/>http://www.safefood.org.nz/

 

http://www.organicnz.org/campaigns/aspartame/

 

<http://www.organicnz.org/organic-nz-magazine/1105/sweet-poison/>http://www.orga\

nicnz.org/organic-nz-magazine/1105/sweet-poison/

 

 

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