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Rich Murray: i: Sunday Express (London): :

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Subject: [Aspartame Support] WILL EUROPE BAN ASPARTAME?

SUNDAY EXPRESS, MAY 20, 2001 SWEETENER PROBED

Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:14:34 -0400

To: " aspartame (AT) onelist (DOT) com " <aspartame >

Comments by Betty i, Mission Possible International

at end of article,

and email address of Sunday Express

Aspartame: UK national press article May 20, 2001

The Sunday Express, May 20, 2001 page 7

Sweetener probed By Lucy ston, Health Editor

Action at last over additive Aspartame

as fears grow of health risk in food and drink

The Government has ordered a top-level investigation into the safety of

Britain's best-selling sweetener

amid fears that the low calorie chemical is a health risk.

Aspartame, used in thousands of diet food and drinks has been linked to

more than 90 adverse reactions including brain tumours and blindness.

The Sunday Express has seen a leaked letter which reveals the

Government's food watchdog - the Food Standards Agency - has sent more

than 500 research papers on the chemical to the

Brussels-based Scientific Committee on Food.

If it finds it is a health risk, the sweetener widely used in fizzy

drinks, squashes, yoghurts, spring water,

chewing gum and pharmaceutical products,

and often sold under the names NutraSweet and Canderel, could be banned.

Last night, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who is campaigning for

NutraSweet to be taken off the shelves added: " This is a very positive

step. Doubts have been raised about this product

and they need to be cleared. " [ normanbaker@... ]

Last September, the Sunday Express led calls for an inquiry after our

investigations discovered large numbers of people were claiming their

health had been damaged by the sweetener.

They included Lyn Hunter, 49, of Liverpool, who regularly drank diet

drinks with Aspartame and had pain in her limbs, headaches, lack of

concentration and insomnia.

Her constant pain became so great she even considered suicide. Her

doctor treated her for arthritis even though tests for this condition

were negative.

When she eliminated Aspartame her symptoms disappeared.

The leaked letter from food scientist Dr Sandy Lawrie expresses concern

that Aspartame has not been reviewed by the

Scientific Committee on Food for 13 years.

It states: " We have discovered more than 500 papers on Aspartame

published between 1988 and 2000.

There is clearly sufficient new data on Aspartame to justify a review. "

Sources at the agency say that if scientists find strong evidence about

dangers of a product, they will advise an EU-wide ban.

A spokeswoman for European manufacturers of Aspartame, Ajinomoto, said:

" All of the good scientific data shows it is safe. No data raises any

concerns about Aspartame either new or old. "

However, many studies which have not been

sponsored by the food industry highlight potential dangers.

Professor Ralph Walton of Northwestern Ohio Universities said:

" I dispute the assertion that there are no health risks.

" I believe Aspartame increases risk of cancer.

Virtually all the studies attesting to its safety

have been funded by the industry. "

One independent study on animals shows how digestion breaks Aspartame

down into formaldehyde, which accumulates in the animals' cells,

damaging DNA and poisoning the liver, kidneys, eye and brain.

However, the manufacturers argue that all the

constituents of Aspartame are found in much greater

quantities in natural drinks such as milk and tomato juice, and are not

considered a health risk.

In the US, there are now five Aspartame detox centres.

Symptoms reported to America's

Food and Drug Administration include headaches,

skin problems, stomach disorders, poor vision, depression,

carbohydrate cravings, panic attacks, irregular heart rhythms and

seizures.

For more information send an SAE to Geoff Brewer, Additives Survivors

Network, 63 Downlands Road, Devizes, SN10 5EF or visit the online

support group at http://www.dorway.com END OF ARTICLE

Comments from Betty i, Mission Possible International:

As many know I lectured in the UK the end of August and Sept, 2001 and

provided many records the UK had not seen. Aspartame was approved in

the UK through a business deal between Searle and Professor

. When Parliament found out there was a big blowout but the

order was not rescinded. ( Article in Guardian) Therefore, the UK did

not know that in the beginning the

FDA had asked for the indictment of Searle

but two U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute

of limitations expired.

For 16 years the FDA refused to approve aspartame

because of the brain tumors but Searle hired Don Rumsfeld

(now Secretary of Defense)

who said he would call in his markers and get it approved

anyway. See UPI 8 month investigation of aspartame by

UPI reporter Gordon: 96K 3-part expose Oct 1987:

http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt

The day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull . A

Board of Inquiry was set up, and told Dr. it had not been proven

safe, and because of the brain tumor issue he could not approve it.

(See Board of Inquiry summation on www.dorway.com).

Dr. over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and

approved aspartame anyway, and then went to work for the PR

agency of the manufacturer, and refused to talk to the press ever

since. Over a year ago Fox News in Washington, D.C. went to Dr. '

house and asked , " Was the public ever at risk? " Again, Dr.

refused to answer and shut the door.

With audio, hear the Fox News newsclip on DORway.

We thank , Attorney, Washington, D.C. for those records

and Jon Baum, Mission Possible National Capital Area

for sending them to us.

Aspartame which was never proven safe, and in original studies

triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and

pancreatic tumors, as well as grand mal seizures,

should never have been approved.

Three congressional hearings were held because of the outrage of

consumers being poisoned, but never banned aspartame,

because senators like Orrin Hatch were paid by Monsanto,

who bought Searle in l985, and sold it last year.

On June 20, l999, The Independent in the UK exposed " World's top

sweetener is made with GM bacteria. "

As more and more evidence is brought forward

we hope that aspartame will now be banned,

having created one of the greatest plagues in world history.

H. J. , M.D. is about to release a 1000 page medical text

on this global plague titled ASPARTAME DISEASE; THE

IGNORED EPIDEMIC.

Consumers and physicians will be able to get it by

accessing http://www.sunsentpress.com/

or in the US by calling 1 800 814 - 9800.

We wish to thank all those in the UK working to expose this deadly

chemical poison: Felicity Mawson, Geoff Brewer, Carl Sims, Marjorie

Schofield, Joanna e, , and many others.

The Sunday Express is not on the web, and for those reading it on the

Internet who would like to send their

case history on aspartame poisoning,

you may write expressletters@...

Betty i, Founder, Mission Possible International

http://www.dorway.com

Aspartame Toxicity Center http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Aspartame Support Groups may be accessed from

http://www.dorway.com

http://www.aspartamekills.com

Jon Baum, Mission Possible National Capital Area

to subscribe to this list: aspartame-subscribe@...

Check out our Aspartame Group's Website!!

http://presidiotex.com/aspartame

Take aspartame products back and demand a refund!

http://www.dorway.com

http://aspartamekills.com

http://nancymarkle.com

Take our latest survey!

http://onelist.com/surveycenter/aspartame

" Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. "

Aldous Huxley

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http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/committees/fac/summary.htm

Officials of the Food Advisory Committee Secretariat

Secretary: Sandy Lawrie BSc PhD

Food Standards Helpline

Room 245 Aviation House 125 Kingsway London WC2B 6NH

The Food Standards Agency commenced its move to

new headquarters on 16 March. All divisions will have

been relocated by 14 May. The new switchboard is

already operational: 020 7276 8000.

Or you can send an e-mail to us at

helpline@...

http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/consultations/sucralose_letter.htm

Any comments or views should be sent to:

Caseley Chemical Safety and Toxicology Division

Food Standards Agency

P O Box 31037

LONDON SW1P 3WG

Or by e-mail to foodadditives@...

Enquiries related to the contents of this letter can be sent

or e-mailed to the addresses above

or can be made by telephoning as follows: 020 7276 8591

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http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/index_en.html

Scientific Committee on Food

Europa The European Commission

Health and Consumer Protection Directorat-General

This mail-box, which is managed by

DG 'Health and Consumer Protection', is there to answer

your questions. All you have to do is send a message to:

sanco-helpline@...

http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/members_en.html

Jan Dr, Chief Medical Officer

Deputy Director, Folkehelsa, Oslo (Norge)

M. Barlow Dr, Consultant to the Medical Research Council

Institute for Environment and Health, (United Kingdom)

- 1. Vice-Chair of the Committee

Angelo Carere Professor, Director

Laboratorio di Tossicologia Comparata ed Ecotossicologia

Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma (Italia)

Karl-Heinz Engel Professor

Allgemeine Lebensmitteltechnologie, Technische Universität München

Freising-Weihenstephan (Deutschland)

Albert Flynn Associate Professor

Division of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Food Science and

Technology, University College Cork (Ireland)

Werner Grunow Dr, Berlin (Deutschland)

Timo Hirvi Professor, Head of Department,

Kemian Osasto, Eläinlääkintä- Ja Elintarvikelaitos (EELA)

Helsinki (Suomi)

Ada G.A.C. Knaap Dr., Senior Researcher,

Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Bilthoven (Nederland)

- Chair of the Committee

Berthold Koletzko Professor of Paediatrics,

Kinderklinik und Kinderpoliklinik, Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital,

Universität München, München (Deutschland)

Christian Larsen Dr, Head of Department

Institut for Fødevaresikkerhed og Toksikologi, Søborg (Danmark)

Sven E. Lindgren Professor

(Mikrobiologi med inriktning pa livsmedel och hygien, Bioteknik)

Statens Livsmedelverk, Uppsala (Sverige)

Bevan Moseley Professor, Reading (United Kingdom)

Andreu Palou Professor, Director

Departament de Biologia Fonamental i Ciències de la Salut,

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Majorca (España)

- 2. Vice-Chair of the Committee

Wim H.M. Saris Professor, Scientific Director

Onderzoeksinstituut NUTRIM, Vakgroep Humane Biologie,

Universiteit van Maastricht, Maastricht (Nederland)

f Schlatter Dr., Head of Department

Abteilung für Toxikologie, Bundesamt für Gesundheitswesen

Zürich (Schweiz)

P. Tobback Prof. Em. Dr. ir.

Departement Levensmiddelen en Microbiële Technologie

Faculteit Landbouwkundige en Toegepaste Biologische

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee (België)

Philippe Verger Dr., Direction Scientifique

" Nutrition Humaine et Sécurité Alimentaire " , Institut National de la

Recherche Agronomique, Paris, (France)

Jean-Michel Wal Dr, Director,

Laboratoire d'Immuno-Allergie Alimentaire, Service de Pharmacologie et

Immunologie (SPI), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Centre d'etudes de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette (France)

Professor, Food Safety Group

School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey

Guildford (United Kingdom)

Contacts: Dietmar Pettauer

European Commission Health & Consumer Protection DG

Directorate C Unit C3 - Management of scientific committees II

Rue de la Loi 200, Office B232 6/21 B-1049 Brussels

Tél : +32-2-296.59.48 Fax : +32-2-299.48.91

and Angel Granero Rosell

Tél : +32-2-295.81.10 Fax : +32-2-299.48.91

E-mail : Sanco-Sc1-Secretariat@...

http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/index_en.html

Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment

Preliminary report on : Exposure data in risk

assessments of organic chemicals - Report version

endorsed by the CSTEE at its 22nd plenary meeting

on 07.03.2001(317KB)

The report is open for public comments until 8 June 2001.

Comments can be sent to : .costa-david@... or

patricia.decamps@...

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Rich Murray, MA Room For All

1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

cell rmforall@...

M.I.T. (physics and history, BA, 1964), Boston U. Graduate School

(psychology, MA, 1967): As a concerned layman, I want to clarify the

aspartame toxicity debate.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/601

long 25K summary

Excellent 5-page review by H.J. in " Townsend Letter " ,

Jan 2000, " Aspartame (NutraSweet) Addiction "

http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html

H.J. , M.D. HRmd@... sunsentpress@...

Sunshine Sentinel Press 6708 Pamela Lane West Palm Beach, FL 33405

fax

1000 page text Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic

available after May 30 2001 http://www.sunsentpress.com/

Almost all are typical of chronic methanol-formaldehyde toxicity:

for detailed review http://www.dorway.com/barua.html

Journal Of The Diabetic Association Of India

1995 Vol. 35, No. 4. Emerging Facts About Aspartame

Dr. J. Barua (ophthalmic surgeon), Dr. Arun Bal (surgeon)

(79 references) barua@...

" ...the total amount of methanol absorbed will be approximately

10% of aspartame ingested. An EPA assessment of methanol states

that methanol " is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate

of excretion once it is absorbed. " The absorbed methanol is then

slowly converted to formaldehyde... "

" Reaction of formaldehyde with DNA has been observed,

by spectrophotometry and electron microscopy, to result in

irreversible denaturation. "

" DKP has been implicated in the occurance of brain tumors. "

..

Two teams find hot aspartame releases DKP:

Food Addit Contam 2000 Oct; 17(10): 821-7

Simultaneous formation and detection of the reaction product of

solid-state aspartame sweetener by FT-IR/DSC microscopic system.

Lin SY, Cheng YD

Biopharmaceutics Laboratory,

Department of Medical Research & Education

Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Shih-Pai, Taiwan,

Republic of China. sylin@...

and

J Pharm Sci 1998 Apr; 87(4): 508-13

Hydration and dehydration behavior of aspartame hemihydrate.

Leung SS, Padden BE, Munson EJ, Grant DJ

Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy,

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0343, USA.

Sophie S. Leung, PhD

Dolores J. Grant, PhD grant1@...

A radioactive tracer study proves that the methanol from a low dose of

of aspartame binds formaldehyde, a deadly cumulative poison, into

tissues: http://ww.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html

Life Sci June 26 1998; 63(5): 337-49 From PubMed

Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue

components in vivo. [ " Trok-ho " ]

Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J, Remesar X,

Fernandez- JA, Alemany M, Departament de Bioquimica i

Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Sra. Carme Trocho, Sra. rio Pardo, Dra. Immaculada Rafecas,

Sr. Jordi Virgili, X. Remesar, Dr. Fernandez-,

Dr. Alemany Fac. Biologia

Tel.: (93)4021521, Fax: (93)4021559

alemany@... bioq@...

rafecas@... remesar@...

Sra. Carme Trocho Tel.: (93)4021544, Fax: (93)4021559

Dr. Woodrow C. Monte, " Aspartame: Methanol, and the Public Health, "

Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36, No. 1, pages 42-54, 1984.

(62 references) Professsor of Food Science

Director of the Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287

6411 South River Drive #61 Tempe, Arizona 85283-3337

woody.monte@...

The methanol from 2 L of diet soda, 5.6 12-oz cans, 20 mg/can, is

112 mg, 10% of the aspartame. The EPA limit for water is 7.8 mg daily

for methanol (wood alcohol), a deadly cumulative poison. Many users

drink 1-2 L daily. The reported symptoms are entirely consistent

with chronic methanol toxicity. (Fresh orange juice has 34 mg/L, but,

like all juices, has 16 times more ethanol, which strongly protects

against methanol.) http://www.dorway.com/wmonte.txt

Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio

Universities, College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown,

OH 44501, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine,

Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240 Youngstown,

OH 44501 rwalton193@...

http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm

" Seizure and mania after high intake of aspartame, " 1986,

Psychosomatics, 27: 218-20:

An age 54 woman with 20 years of depression had been stable for 11

years with medication. She had a grand mal seizure, followed by

mania, insomnia, flight of ideas, and irritability. A brief

hospitalization and CT scan found no apparent cause. After three

weeks, this led to psychiatric hospitalization. Two days later,

it was found that during the several weeks before the seizure and

onset of mania, she had started using aspartame in place of sugar

in her iced tea, a gallon daily. Four days later, the mania subsided,

and 13 months later she continued to function well, and enjoying her

large amounts of iced tea, with sugar, not aspartame.

Three careful double-blind experimental studies prove aspartame

causes headaches: Koehler SM et al, 1988, Headache, 28(1), 10-14.

Shirley M. Koehler, PhD skoehler@...

http://www.med.umich.edu/abcn/alpha/alpha-K.html#Koehler

Walton RG et al, 1993, Biological Psychiatry, 34(1), 13-17.

Prof. Ralph G. Walton rwalton193@...

Van Den Eeden SK et al, 1994, Neurology, 44, 1787-93.

K. Van Den Eeden, PhD skv@...

http://www.dor.kaiser.org/dorhtml/investigators/_Van_Den_Eeden.html

Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold

http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame

" Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research "

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html

mgold@... 12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301

Mission-Possible-USA Betty i

http://www.dorway.com over 770 page site

Bettym19@...

http://www.dorway.com/asprlink.html many links

http://www.dorway.com/nslawsuit.txt Jeff , Attorney

Aspartame Consumer Safety Network

http://web2.airmail.net/marystod/index.html marystod@...

Nash Stoddard, " The Deadly Deception "

http://web2.airmail.net/marystod/espanol.htm

Geoff.Brewer@... United Kingdom Mission Possible International

63 Downlands Road DEVIZES SN10 5EF Tel: 01380 728059

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