- To some, Santa Fe gallery owner Stephen
Fox would have been a hero if he succeeded in getting all foods and medicines
containing aspartame banned permanently from New Mexico.
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- Given the corporate heavyweights that
came out to fight this battle, including beverage companies and the sweetener's
manufacturer, Fox would have accomplished quite a feat.
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- Sold under the brand names of NutraSweet
and Equal, aspartame was approved as a food additive in 1981 and is found
in thousands of products, including diet sodas. Naysayers across the nation,
with a strong presence on the Internet, call it a poison that can harm
human health.
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- On Thursday, the state Environmental
Improvement Board unanimously shot down Fox's petition to outlaw aspartame.
"In light of our attorney's advice and as the petition is currently
written, a citizens board is not the appropriate venue to take on an aspartame
ban," said Gay Dillingham, head of the seven-member board.
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- Dr. Ken Stoller, a Santa Fe pediatrician,
lamented the outcome: "Today, the EIB, succumbing to pressure from
Ajinomoto (the world's largest aspartame manufacturer), decided not to
hold a hearing on aspartame even though they had twice previously voted
to hold this hearing. ... The poisoning continues."
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- Earlier this year, Fox tried to convince
state lawmakers to prohibit the sale of aspartame products indefinitely,
but the bill was tabled.
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- Now, Dillingham said, Fox still has
the right to revise his petition and try again with the Environmental Improvement
Board.
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- "I'm not going to repetition the
EIB. The first petition was perfect," Fox said. "The (corporations)
abnegated the regulatory powers in New Mexico to protect food products.
What a loss for New Mexico."
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- In May, the board offered Fox the opportunity
to change the way he wrote his petition and outlined options that would
not require statewide labeling or bans, but Fox refused.
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- One option would have been for the EIB
to hold hearings to review a reasonable amount of scientific evidence and
then petition the U.S. Food and Drug Administration if the findings raised
concerns.
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- In a tie vote Thursday, the EIB decided
not to make public the attorney's letter that outlined the pros and cons
of seven options, which had been summarized in an open meeting.
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- "There's really nothing that's
not in the (May) meeting minutes," said Dillingham, who voted to make
the attorney's letter public.
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- Fox took on the aspartame industry because
of moral concerns: "I don't think that multinational corporate powers
should be able to poison people."
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- Originally, the EIB had scheduled hearings
on Fox's petition for this July. However, after gathering legal advice
on whether states have the authority to override the FDA as well as interstate-commerce
laws, the board took another approach.
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- "We are concerned about the issue,"
Dillingham said, noting that she personally is troubled when she sees signs
that politics might be "eclipsing" science at the FDA.
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- More than 100 toxicological and clinical
studies regarding the sweetener's safety have been conducted so far. The
FDA is reviewing a recent controversial Italian study, which linked cancer
in rats to aspartame. Meanwhile, the European Food Safety Authority found
holes in the Italian study and continues to call aspartame safe.
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- Aspartame, one of five approved artificial
sweeteners in the U.S., is widely consumed by diabetics and dieters. Ruth
Kava, a nutritionist with the American Council on Science and Health, which
receives corporate funding, said it's a good alternative to sugar for everyone
except those with the genetic disorder phenylketonuriais a genetic disorder,
which is characterized by an inability of the body to use an important
amino acid.
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- "I don't understand why people
are getting so fearful of products that really have no dangerous health
effects whatsoever," she said in an interview Thursday.
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- Kava said consumers get confused by
the methanol ingredient in aspartame, but must remember that only in large
doses is methanol toxic. The amount of methanol in aspartame-sweetened
foods and beverages is well below the levels that cause any harm, she co-wrote
in a recent article reviewing all artificial sweeteners.
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- "Many people do not realize that
methanol is a common constituent of foods and beverages and that people
routinely consume small amounts of it without ill effect," the article
in the journal Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety says.
"Methanol is found in many fruits and vegetables."
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- Contact Diana Heil at 986-3066 or dheil@sfnewmexican.com.
- http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/46051.html
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- Comment
- Dr. Betty Martini
- 7-7-6
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- Stephen Fox, a true American hero, in
the end will succeed.
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- The excuse of EIB is lame. They had
no right to deny the hearing they already voted to have. They are empowered
to ban aspartame and they simply were manipulated by the aspartame industry.
Ajinomoto. Ajinomoto, Calorie Control Council, and Coke would do anything
to prevent a hearing that would have given the EIB no choice but to ban
it.
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- Aspartame violates state and federal
adulteration statutes. Here in the congressional record is the NSDA (now
American Beverage) admitting it:
- http://www.wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc
Because it is a crime to "ship for sale" an adulterated product
then it violates Interstate Commerce Laws. The EIB hearing would have
heard that the FDA actually revoked the petition for approval after they
first tried to have the manufacturer indicted for fraud but the defense
team hired the US Prosecutors. Here is the actual petition: http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc
Many of the EIB had seen the movie Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World and
heard and saw James Turner, Atty, tell how Don Rumsfeld called in his markers
when the FDA said no. http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html Ajinomoto
had to stop this hearing.
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- The methanol propaganda is getting kind
of old. In molecular chemistry its one molecule of aspartic acid (an excitotoxin),
to one molecule of methanol (a neurotoxin) to one molecule of phenylalanine
(as an isolate a neurotoxin). All scientists know this and this is no
small amount of methanol. It has been shown on the Trocho Study that the
formaldehyde converted from this free methyl alcohol accumulates in the
cells and damages DNA. This is pre-embalming as discussed in the medical
text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.sunsentpress.com
How serious is the methanol? Found on the autopsy of athlete Charles
Fleming, an aspartame addict, after it killed him, his wife was sent to
prison for 30 and 20 years years where she remains today. Diane Fleming,
a Sunday School teacher, who was the one who called the police because
she didn't know the toxic poison they were drinking liberated free methyl
alcohol, took a lie detector test and passed. She helped the police and
the detective said to me, "I wouldn't have allowed her to be indicted
because she is innocent but just at that time they promoted me and took
me off the case." The usual excuse of the manufacturers is there
is more methanol in oranges knowing full well that in fruits and vegetables
methanol binds to pectin, and is removed safely from the body. It also
has ethanol which is the classic antidote for methanol toxicity. The Trocho
Study is so damaging the scientists were threatened. As one told a TV
crew: "And now I have to keep my job". Why are there diet soda
naysayers? Because the methanol causes chronic methanol poisoning like
found on the autopsy of Charles Fleming. This affects the dopamine system
and causes addiction. How bad is the addiction? As a surgeon told the
diabetic wife of Lane Shore, "stop the aspartame and we may be able
to save your foot". She replied, "I'm too addicted take if off."
They did.
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- The Ramazzini Study in Italy has no holes.
It was the most impeccable study ever done on aspartame confirming once
again what the FDA had also found, that this poison is a multipotential
carcinogen. The now discredited European Food Safety Authority also manipulated
by the manufacturer could find nothing so they said the cancers had to
have come from the respiratory disease. They knew as director Dr. Soffritti
said that respiratory disease is part of the dying process. We also see
it on the autopsies of victims who die of aspartame like Charles Fleming.
But the EFSA could have said "the bluebird of happiness flies at
dawn". They just had to have an excuse, any excuse, to not do anything.
What shame they brought upon themselves to aid and abet the maker of this
poison. http://www.wnho.net/halt_the_spin_on_bogus_studies.htm
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- By LAW the FDA is now obligated to recall
aspartame: http://www.wnho.net/cancer_study_obligates_recall.htm But laws
mean nothing. The manufacturers of aspartame have bigger attorneys and
bottomless checkbooks and people in high places. They offer influence
and money. They know how to manipulate. There is a name for those who
do it for money and they have their hands out everywhere. They now have
money for anything they want but their home may be void of mirrors to view
their sin. Front groups like Calorie Control Council and American Council
on Science and Health spin yarns and take "funding". And when
the brains of our children are destroyed by aspartame http://www.wnho.net/dr_olney1.doc
they look the other way because they don't have to take care of the autistic
or ADD, ADHD, or mentally retarded child.
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- Stephen, you were right not to revise
the petition. It is perfect, that's why they want it revised. They are
saying "we'll find something to give you, if you go away". We
just have to keep going and get a bigger sling shot. David did it and
so you can you. That sling shot may up the uprising of the people of New
Mexico being outraged by the denial of due process. The Bill of Rights,
9 & 10, says you cannot remove the rights of the people and the rights
of the states. And the people of New Mexico have the right to have the
facts heard. The EIB is empowered to hold hearings, and they are empowered
to ban aspartame. As Dr. Stoller said, they voted twice to have these
hearings. They had no right to deny the hearing to expose the facts.
Dr. H. J. Roberts met with Governor Richardson who said aspartame should
be banned. (HJrobertsmd@aol.com).
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- It was the people of New Mexico who
lost. And it is New Mexico who must stand up and object over the outrageous
manipulation of environmental powers to protect them. We salute you,
Stephen, American hero. Now let's keep going and get this poison out of
New Mexico.
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- Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
- Mission Possible International (warning
the world off aspartame)
- 9270 River Club Parkway
- Duluth, Georgia 30097
- 770 242-2599
- www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com
- Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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