- ATLANTA (PRWEB) April 12,
2005 -- Consumer rights advocacy group Mission Possible is leading a campaign
to fill a product liability lawsuit with New York and New Jersey residents
whose brain tumors may be linked to the consumption of the artificial sweetener
aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, etc.).
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- "Neither congressional hearings or repeated petitions
calling for a ban have stopped aspartame manufacturers from exposing the
public to this sweet poison. In fact, aspartame producers are reporting
increased sales and boasting the marketplace addition of 'neotame,' a new
aspartame product," explained Mission Possible International Founder
Betty Martini.
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- For 16 years, the FDA resisted pressure to approve aspartame
due to safety studies linking the artificial sweetener to numerous adverse
reactions, including the development of brain tumors in animal studies.
In 1977, FDA investigator Jerome Bressler released a report describing
how, in clinical studies submitted to the FDA, Searle removed aspartame-induced
brain tumors that developed in lab rats and placed them back into the study.
If the rats died, Bressler reported, Searle would resurrect them on paper.
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- In a personal conversation with Martini and prominent
aspartame experts, Doctors H. J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock he admitted
the studies were so bad FDA removed 20% of the most damaging data of his
report.
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- Three years after Donald Rumsfeld became CEO of Searle,
aspartame was approved for use in dry goods. To find out how he accomplished
this feat, click into the new movie, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World
and hear the words of renowned Washington Consumer Attorney James Turner
as he speaks about President Reagan's Executive Order: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html
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- Since its 1981 approval, the FDA has published a list
of 92 symptoms of aspartame poisoning, which includes headaches, vision
loss including blindness, seizures, neurological problems, cardiovascular
problems and death. The FDA admits adverse reactions to aspartame comprise
about 80 percent of consumer complaints it receives each year. Martini
has been networking victims, scientists, and physicians under an umbrella
of scientific data and published medical literature that has been growing
since Mission Possible formed in 1992.
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- Having exhausted her executive and administrative remedies
regarding the removal of aspartame from the marketplace, Martini is convinced
that, "Litigation is the only way to spare consumers the misery of
aspartame poisoning." Martini's reasoning is supported in the outcomes
of recent product liability controversies. It was class action lawsuits
-- not government agency intervention -- that forced the epidemic of Vioxx-induced
heart attacks out into the open where the FDA had to take administrative
action, banning sales of the dangerous pain relief drug. Information from
the experts and in medical texts show aspartame is actually a neurotoxic
drug that interacts with other drugs and vaccinations.
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- The story of how aspartame was discovered and approved
by the FDA has been pieced together over the years through documents obtained
by Mission Possible. That aspartame overcame FDA neurotoxicity concerns
and is now found in over 7,000 commonly consumed foods, beverages and medical
preparations is a case study of how power politics trumps science and public
safety in the product approval process.
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- In one set of documents, aspartame producer G.D. Searle
used poor people from six third-world countries as test subjects for a
study conducted in 1983/84. The data shows that, over the 18-month duration
of the study, some of the subjects developed brain tumors; others began
to experience seizures. In one case, a pregnant woman spontaneously aborted,
began hemorrhaging and then disappeared from the study.
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- The study showed that the numbers of people whose brains
and central nervous systems are adversely affected by aspartame are statistically
significant enough to warrant a review of its status as an FDA-approved
artificial sweetener. But the FDA was not provided with the results of
the Searle study nor was it allowed to review the clinical data.
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- A study was done at Kings College in England by Dr. Peter
Nunn in 1999 on aspartame and brain tumors. Monsanto insisted that aspartame
could not cause brain tumors because it doesn't get in the blood stream
even though Martini says industry's own studies shows it does and released
this information in a report, which can be read at: http://www.rense.com/health3/asptumor.htm.
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- In the result of this study it said: "Interestingly,
when we exposed human brain tumour cells to nitrosated DKP the cells became
more motile and their rate of proliferation was significantly elevated.
While it is somewhat early to speculate, it is possible that the aspartame
breakdown product may be capable of enhancing the rate of malignant progression
of pre-existing (and possibly clinically silent, undiagnosed) tumours in
the brain." This was exactly what the famed neuroscientist Dr. John
Olney said when he made world news in l996 over the aspartame/brain tumor
association.
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- Monsanto, the maker of the controversial bovine growth
hormone that has been linked to the development of cancer in humans and
cattle, bought Searle (and the rights to produce aspartame) in 1985. They
sold in l999 to other companies.
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- The prevalence of brain tumors in the U.S. has been increasing
steadily since the early 1980s. Today, about 70 percent of adults and 40
percent of children are regular consumers of products that contain aspartame.
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- "There is not one shred of evidence to suggest that
aspartame is safe. Yet, our files are overflowing with studies and reports
proving that aspartame is a not a food additive but a neurotoxic drug that
breaks down to a brain tumor agent, DKP. And now, 25 years later, we have
epidemic proportions of people developing brain tumors and a full spectrum
of other neurological disorders," Martini said.
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- Aspartame's road to marketplace approval and its effect
on public health is extremely well documented. The aspartame story has
been described in the 1,038-page medical text
- 'Aspartame Disease - An Ignored Epidemic' by H.J. Roberts,
MD. http://www.sunsentpress.com.
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- 'Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills' by neurosurgeon
Russell Blaylock, M.D., also describes these problems. http://www.russellblaylockmd.com
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- Former aspartame-induced multiple-sclerosis sufferer
Cori Brackett traveled over 7,000 miles to interview physicians, scientists,
attorneys and FDA investigators about aspartame neurotoxicity and how then
former (and now current) Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used his political
muscle to achieve aspartame's FDA approval. The result is the powerful
video documentary "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" http://www.soundandfuryproductions.com.
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- The largest collection of aspartame-related studies,
reports and case histories available anywhere in the world can be found
online at http://www.dorway.com, the Mission Possible website. Aspartame
Toxicity Center is http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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- New York and New Jersey residents who believe they may
qualify as a plaintiff in a product liability lawsuit against aspartame
producers are encouraged to contact Mission Possible at (770) 242-2599.
To qualify, one must be able to establish themselves as an aspartame consumer
prior to developing a brain tumor and fall within the three-year statute
of limitations.
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- Contact
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- Dr. Betty Martini
- 770 242-2599
- Mission Possible International
- 9270 River Club Parkway
- Duluth, Georgia 30097
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- Contact Information
- Betty Martini
- Mission Possible International
- http://www.rense.com/health3/asptumor.htm
- 770 242-2599
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