aspartame: another David & goliath what we can do....

by **darkbeforedawn** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:32 pm

I liked this article because Dr. Martini gives names and numbers to write and call in support of this small but concerted effort to hit a giant. BTW Rumsfeld was the big ramrod who pushed this substance past the FDA and into our food supply. It's killing us all.... New Mexico Aspartame Battle Depends On Attorney General's Opinion From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. Bettym19@mindspring.com 12-15-5 Release date: 2005-12-14 (Newswire Today) Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005-12-14 - Aspartame Battle in NM shifts from Boards to Attorney General's Opinion on how an FDA approved product and neurotoxic food and medicine additive can be challenged despite industry claims of federal preemption. Both the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy and the Environmental Improvement Board have petitions before them to amend the Administrative Code with a new chapter which bans neurotoxic additives, to medications and to foods. There are over 6000 food products with aspartame and over 500 medications, primarily children's meds and vitamins, which contain aspartame, even though everyone knows that it turns to Formaldehyde (among other toxic metabolites). The world's largest Aspartame manufacturer, Ajinomoto (also the world's largest MSG manufacturer) has hired the Rodey Firm and a Washington D.C. law firm FDA specialist to hammer these two boards into silence and to force them to abandon any future hearings on aspartame, primarily riding on the absurd legal logic that because aspartame was approved by the FDA, any state level challenge would therefore be preempted by the Federal approval. The Ajinomoto/Rodey lawyer in so many words told the Pharmacy Board on November 14 that they didn't have the expertise nor the manpower to read, let alone to comprehend the FDA's one to ten million pages proving that aspartame was safe, even though 6 out of 9 of them are pharmacists, and that the reason the petitioners, myself and Santa Fe Pediatrician Ken Stoller, came to them instead of the FDA with this petition, is that we thought they "must be easier to push around." In fact, the FDA has ignored all of the petitions to ban aspartame, and a meaningful preemption for aspartame is impossible, given the political channels used to get its approval in 1981, and for soft drinks, over the objections of the National Soft Drink Association, in 1983. I believe that the FDA's approval processes for food additives are so corrupt and manipulated by corporate mendacity and phony research, that the states' regulatory processes are the only possible salvation for health in America. Under pressure from Ajinomoto/Rodey and a bit less pressure from the Montgomery and Andrews firm, retained by industry front group, the Calorie Control Council, both boards have asked Attorney General Patricia Madrid for a formal Attorney General's Opinion as to whether this Federal-preemption-due-to-FDA-approval crumbling mythologies will prevent any action by the two boards. The co-petitioners and other consumer advocates who recognize the importance of this Attorney General's Opinion are hopeful that with her generally strong stands for New Mexico states' rights over the past 7 years, as well as the clear authority for these boards explicitly delineated in several NM statutes to examine such questions, that her Opinion will be a landmark one for consumer protection efforts in every state. Rather than wait till such opinion is delivered, however, I encourage the reader to write to the Honorable Patricia Madrid, and to her Deputy, the Honorable Stuart Bluestone, the Bataan Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, and make your views known. You can contact them directly at (505) 827-6000 and (505) 827-6004, and you can email them as well. You can also discuss this urgent medical need with your legislators and encourage them to support the creation of a powerful new New Mexico Nutrition Council, described in Senator Altamirano's Senate Bill 525 from 2005, which you can read on the NM Legislature website. Altamirano is the President Pro Tempore of the New Mexico Senate. Governor Bill Richardson's views on this are clear: he supports the EIB's decision to move forward with aspartame hearings, because "the Federal government has not done enough to warn people about the dangers of aspartame," he stated on October 5 to the Albuquerque Journal. Richardson can be reached at 505 827-3000; Press Sec. is Billy Sparks. For more information, please go to the website for the World Natural Health Organization, wnho.net, and for the Aspartame Toxicity Information Center, in Concord, New Hampshire. Please closely examine the articles by H.J.Roberts, M.D., author of Aspartame Disease: an Ignored Epidemic, and by Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Exicitoxins: the Taste that Kills. The Aspartame/formaldehyde and the Thimerosal/mercury in vaccines are tied to together in these considerations before the two New Mexico Boards, because they are both proven neurotoxins with deadly neurodegenerative effects, and this is the subject of the additional chapter for the Administrative Code. Such additions are the concerns of the Boards and Commissions. The statutes delineating the entire authority to implement these permanent bans are cited in detail at www.wnho.net, click on aspartame. It is very clear that a great deal depends on the Attorney General's Opinion as a formal legal document, because if states are powerless to question any FDA approved product, then the corporate plutocracy/kleptocracy and "toxic idiocracy" which has dumped all of these neurotoxic additives and carcinogens into the American diet and American pharmacology win the right to keep doing so, to the extreme detriment of the health of every American. The international implications are clear also, since these same corporations like Ajinomoto and many American companies use their products FDA approval to push approval through in hundreds of other nations in the world, by saying: "The FDA has the most stringent approval processes in the world." Clearly, this is an absurd and flawed bit of logic, and once it is dispensed with and these crumbling mythologies are discarded forever, everyone's health can improve, particularly that of the children in New Mexico, in the United States, and all over the world. The aspartame corporate dominoes are beginning to fall, starting in New Mexico, through the relevant regulatory bodies of the state, and this consumer protection effort could take place in every state in the United States, depending on the statutes of each state, and the energy advocates are willing to devote to this vital and long overdue effort. Stephen Fox New Millennium Fine Art stephen[...]santafefineart.com 505 983-2002 Agency/Source: New Mexico Nutrition Council Related Link: <a href="http://wnho.net">wnho.net</a> Note from Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097:, 770 242-2599 : For those who want to help please write the Attorney General today at the address above. Remember if we can get aspartame out of New Mexico we can get it off the planet. Help set a precedent for the world to follow. This is very very important. If you're a victim explain what it has done to your life. Give the Attorney General encouragement. If you want to keep up with stay what is going on you can subscribe to the Aspartame Information List on www.wnho.net You can also get information on aspartame from <a href="http://www.dorway.com">www.dorway.com</a> and the Aspartame Toxicity Center, <a href="http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame">www.holisticmed.com/aspartame</a> The Aspartame documentary is Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.docworkers.com Show it everywhere. You can get 24 page booklets on asparstame for distribution called the Artificially Sweetened Times from the Idaho Observer, www.idaho-observer.com The new ones have information on New Mexico. © PRZOOM.com - NewswireToday.com - Press Release & Newswire Distribution Network.

by **lurker** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:04 pm

A member of the parliamentary select committee on food and the environment yesterday called for emergency action to ban the artificial sweetener aspartame, used in 6,000 food, drink and medicinal products. The Liberal Democrat MP Roger Williams said in an adjournment debate in the Commons that there was "compelling and reliable evidence for this carcinogenic substance to be banned from the UK food and drinks market altogether". In licensing aspartame for use, regulators around the world had failed in their main task of protecting the public, he told MPs. .....Responding for the government, the public health minister, Caroline Flint, said ...aspartame is safe for use in food. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1667734,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1667734,00.html</a>

by **marykmusic** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:38 am

Because it was originally patented as a roach killer, we tried it on fire ants. Sprinkle it around the opening to their underground lair, and... they carry it down but they don't come back up. Donald Rumsfeld was instrumental in getting Aspertame approved for "food use." Nexus Magazine wrote about it many years ago: <a href="http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/aspartame.html" target="top">THE BITTER TRUTH ABOUT ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS</a> --MaryK

by **Col Quisp** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:40 am

Somebody posted on GLP that aspartame is in Tropicana orange juice, even though not on the label. I fear that it is in many products without being labeled, under the guise of "natural flavoring." The only way to avoid this poison is to eat organic only. Heck, it's even in non-sugar-free chewing gum. I also saw today on Google News that they expect Alzheimers cases to skyrocket. Gee, wonder if Aspartame is to blame? Ronnie Reagan used to carry packets of it around in a special silver case that Nancy gave him. This is a long article but very interesting: <a href="http://100777.com/node/199">100777.com/node/199</a> Billions Of People Are Now Aspartame Victims By James D. Bowen, MD bowendrjim@yahoo.com 3-22-2 This guy may be just a nut, but he makes some interesting observations on the hazards of Nutrasweet and other chemicals.

by **illuminaughty** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:01 am

Thanks for the link. I have had MS for 15 years and am familiar with the connection between it and Aspartame. This makes so much sense to me because I am also highly allergic to formaldehyde. I finally figured out the blisters on my hands and face were appearing after I put on nail polish which contains formaldehyde resin. I once tried a new hairspray and had a hideous reaction to it, even in my lungs. The ingredients only listed "resin" but it turned out to be formaldehyde resin. Since Aspartame turns into formaldehyde, it has to be pretty toxic. If you mention this info to a neurologist, there are skeptic to say the least, but there is no denying that we currently have an epidemic of Multiple Sclerosis and in countries where it was virtually non existent years ago. Thanks for the info.

by **Floyd Smoots** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:50 pm

Hi, threre, ladies, and the rest of you. Because I'm such a voracious reader, I don't mind wading through a long post, as long as it's well written, interesting, and informative. Col Quisp, At this moment, I'm only about halfway through your posted link to Dr. james Bowden. Even though I have been aware of Aspartame's poisonous nature since about 1998, I have to say "Thank YOU Very Much!" for this link. All I can really say right now about Dr. Bowden's story is: DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!! (That's my poorly written expression for "I'm Totally Flabbergasted and Frankly Floored!!!)

by **Floyd Smoots** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:47 am

Col Quisp (and the rest of the gang), I just now finished the article by Dr. James Bowden. If I say that I believe it to be 99 and 44/100th's percent pure, that would be fairly accurate. However, he never tells us in his long, Long, LONG post, whatever happened to his "beloved wife". I'll give him a pass, because we seem to be discussing "chemical anomalies", at this point. If his post is in any way truthful (and I tend to believe him), it would go a long way towards explaining his lapses of grammar, punctuation, etc., which I noticed in his post. (OH YEAH, LIKE I'M THE BEST TYPIST ON THE PLANET, ESPECIALLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF "PRESIDENTIAL" {Busch?} BEER!!!) Not to mention, that the "chemical assault" on his body and his mind could be a mitigating factor. I have come to believe that my second ex-wife, whom I blamed in a different post (here at R.I.), of "merely" leaving me (at age 53), for an old boyfriend, was seriously influenced by her perscribed "hormone replacement" medications. I have since read, on some medical links, that her prescribed pills have been called into question, as possibly causing temporary dementia, in a fairly large percentage of users. Not to mention that she quit smoking tobacco, and I didn't. There are two kinds of "ex-smokers" on this whole planet, those who can stand the "smell of smoke", and, having quit, are not bothered, and those, who cannot tolerate the smell in any way, shape, or form. My last lamented "wife" couldn't. As a normal "rationalizing" human, I still think it was mostly the hormone crap she had been prescribed, that caused the final split, but, as a considered and considerate nod to ALL non-smokers here (whether ever or never), I'll take THAT Tobacco Hit as one of my my parts leading to the the end of the marriage. That said, I'll give you a quote right off the side of my beer can: "there is nothing artificial in this product. brewed from water, malt, cereal grains, hops and yeast. come visit us - www.busch.com", except, on the can, it was in all capital letters, and, that's exactly the WAY I typed it in, into Master William Gates' Microsoft Bullsnot Notepad, and, as you can see here, it was "pasted" in, in ALL lower case. I decided NOT to change it, but, just to comment on this strange(?) anomaly. Gee, I wonder what "that" means in "newspeak"!!! (1984, Cough, Cough) So, what I'm really askin' here is, IS THERE ANY ASPARTAME IN MY BEER??? It might explain a lot of things, but, then, it could just be the ethyl alcohol ab"use"!!! Cheers!!!, FFllloooyyyydddd

by **darkbeforedawn** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:33 pm

I haven't read the link you mention, Floyd, but from the reading I have done (limited I admit) there are as many as 20 to 50 thousand products that can legally be added to any processed food with NO labeling telling you they are in the food or beverage you are buying. We are all at the mercy of these vampires who have a revolving door in and out of the FDA, every time we buy any processed food of any sort even those labeled "organic"

by **Floyd Smoots** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:35 pm

Dagnabbit, darkbeforedawn, you are absolutely correct! I, too, have read many pages about just that. I know the link to Dr. James Bowden's personal testimony, is a very, Very, VERY long read, but what makes his testimony so compelling, is his first hand account with his struggles with Aspartame poisoning, and the fact that he has NEVER recovered from some of the lasting effects on his body.

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