EVIDENCE OF HARM ASPARTAME

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EVIDENCE OF HARMASPARTAMEText

of Senate Resolution

Requesting the

Department of Health and the National Academy of Sciences to review

existing reports and studies related to Aspartame, and Requesting

the United States Food and Drug Administration to Rescind Approval

for United States Markets, carried by Hawaii Senator Suzanne Chun

Oakland.

Whereas,

aspartame was originally developed as a drug to treat peptic ulcers;

and Whereas, manufacturers state that aspartame is made up of forty

per cent aspartic acid, fifty percent phenylalanine, and ten per

cent methanol; and

Whereas,

aspartic acid is a nonessential amino acid that is used by the body

to initiate apoptosis or cell death in aging cells, and that excess

aspartic acid from aspartame consumption causes apoptosis in health

cells that can destroy healthy tissue, especially in the brain; and

Whereas,

phenylalanine is an essential amino acid found naturally in protein

but when isolated becomes neurotoxic, lowers the seizure threshold,

depletes serotonin triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems,

and interacts with depressants and other drugs; and

Whereas,

methanol is a severe metabolic poison classified as a narcotic that

converts to formaldehyde a neurotoxin.

Whereas,

aspartame metabolites include formaldehyde, a carcinogen,

diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent, and formic acid, and

Whereas, in

1974, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved

aspartame as an artificial sweetener, but asked its manufacturer

Searle to hold back from selling it on the market until further

tests could be made with regards to its safety; and scientific

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Whereas,

scientific data revealed that there was a problem with aspartame

safety date and the United States Food and Drug Administration

withdrew its approval;

Whereas, in

1975, the United States Food and Drug Administration initiated an

investigation into Searle's laboratory practices and discovered

fraud in scientific experiments as well as manipulated data giving

favorable results proving aspartame to be safe; and

Whereas, the

results of this investigation are included in what is called "The

Bressler Report" by Jerome Bressler; and Whereas, in

1980, Dr. Olney submitted scientific data to a United States

Food and Drug Administration Public Board of Inquiry showing that

aspartic acid, the excitotoxic ingredient in aspartame, caused holes

in the brains of mice; and

Whereas, Dr.

Olney stated that it warranted special emphasis that

excitotoxins act by an acute but silent mechanism, requiring only a

single exposure for CVO neurons to be quietly destroyed, that

clearly Searle failed to establish the safety of their product,

aspartame, for use in children's food, and that all age comparative

data support the following conclusions: (1) orally administered

excitotoxins destroy CVO neurons at any age; (2) immature animals

are most vulnerable; and (3) the toxic threshold increases only

gradually between birth and adulthood; and

Whereas, in

1980, the Public Board of Inquiry unanimously voted against

aspartame approval, but was overruled by a new United States Food

and Drug Administration Commissioner, Dr. Arthur Hull , against

the advice of Food and Drug Administration scientific personnel and

advisers; and Whereas, the United States Food and Drug

Administration approved aspartame use in sodas, despite the fact

that the National Soft Drink Association argued vehemently against

aspartame in these quotes from their protest:

(1) "The

present record does not contain date 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.S. 342

(a)(3), which provides that a food is adulterated if it contains, in

whole or in part, “a decomposed substance or it is otherwise unfit

for food"

(2) An

important decomposition product of aspartame, aspartic acid, cannot

be detected at all using TLC"

(3)G.D. Searle

and Company has not demonstrated to a reasonable certainty that the

use of aspartame in soft drinks, without quantitative limitations,

will not adversely affect human health as a result of the changes

such use is likely to cause in brain chemistry and under certain

reasonably anticipated conditions of use and"

(4)

Specifically, Searle has not met its burdens under section 409….to

demonstrate that aspartame is safe and functional for use in soft

drinks. Collectively, the extensive deficiencies in the stability

studies conducted by Searle to demonstrate that aspartame and its

degradation products are safe in soft drinks intended to be sold in

the United States, render those studies inadequate and unreliable."

Senate

Congressional Record, May 7, 1985, S5507-5511: and

Whereas, the

United States Food and Drug Administration has compiled a list of

ninety-two symptoms attributed to aspartame consumption including

four types of seizures, coma, and death; and

Whereas, the

Ramazzini Studies by the European Foundation for Oncology in Italy

conducted exhaustive studies over three years with thousands of

rats, and proved aspartame to be multipotential carcinogen, thus

confirming the United States Food and Drug Administration"

original findings; and

Whereas, the

United States Food and Drug Administration admitted that aspartame

caused cancer over two decades ago when the Administration"

Toxicologist,

Dr. Gross, told Congress at least one of Searle 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? 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 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, August 1, 1985, SID835: 131: and

Whereas ,

aspartame is linked to sudden death, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and

many neurodegenerative diseases, as cited in may medical texts, most

notably: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by H.J. ,

M.D., and Excitotoxins: the Taste that Kills, By Blaylock,

M.D., and

Whereas, on

November 3, 1987, Dr. Louis Elsas told Congress: " I am a

pediatrician, a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory and Have spent

twenty-five years in the biomedical sciences, trying to prevent

mental retardation and birth defect caused by excess

phenylalanine,and therein lies my basic concern, that aspartame is

in fact a well known neurotoxin and teratogen which, in some as yet

undefined dose, will irreversibly in the developing child or fetal

brain, produce adverse effects": and

Whereas, there

are tens of thousands of case histories and anecdotal accounts from

victims of aspartame poisoning who have come forward to make their

case histories known; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED

by the Senate of the Twenty-Fourth Legislature of the State of

Hawaii, Regular Session of 2008, the House of Representatives

concurring, that the Department of Health is requested to create,

within their existing budget, an evidentiary repository accessible

to the public for patients and physicians to submit of the next year

their cases involving victims of aspartame poisoning; and

BE IT FURTHER

RESOLVED that the Director of Health is requested to report to the

Legislature on the status of the evidentiary repository during

periodic interim meetings with the Chairs of the Hawaii State Senate

Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Housing, the

House of Representatives Committees on Health and Human Services and

Housing, and the state Attorney General; and

BE IT FURTHER

RESOLVED that the Department of Health is requested to review all

existing reports, studies, experiments, and related literature on

aspartame, including clinical studies, differentiating each study by

its funding source, and submit a report to the Legislature no later

than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2008 Regular Session;

and

BE IT FURTHER

RESOLVED that the Nation Academy of Sciences is requested to review

all existing reports, studies, experiments, and related literature

on aspartame, including clinical studies, differentiating each study

by its funding source, and that, if funding is required to undertake

this extended evaluation, that the appropriate funding be sought

from various foundations and from Congress; and

BE IT FURTHER

RESOLVED that given the enormous amount of evidence that has been

compiled concerning the neurodegenerative harm it can cause, that

the United States Food and Drug Administration is requested to

rescind approval of aspartame immediately on a phase-out basis over

six months to one year; and

BE IT FURTHER

RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to

the members of Hawaii’s Congressional Delegation, the Commissioner

of the Untied States Food and Drug Administration, the Executive

Director of the National Academy of Sciences, the Director of

Health, the Director of Human Services, the Attorney General, and

the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.ASPARTAMEEVIDENCE OF HARM