Fwd: New Artificial sweetener

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U. S. FOOD SUPPLY SAFETY THREATENED TODAY WITH FDA APPROVAL OF

CONTROVERSIAL NEW ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER 13,000 TIMES SWEETER THAN SUGAR

DALLAS, July 5, 2002 - (Aspartame Consumer Safety Network) - In response

to FDA and Monsanto's announcement today that approval has been granted

for use of the new sweetener, Neotame as a food additive in baked goods,

aqueous solution and as a table top sweetener, Aspartame Consumer Safety

Network, issues the following statement:

"Seventy eight percent of all FDA complaints pertain to aspartame

adverse reactions. ACSN has thousands of serious reactions in their

files. These reports include: grand mal seizures, brain tumors,

blindness and other health-related problems including deaths.

Monsanto's Nick stated in 1998, that Neotame is "based on the

aspartame formula." Since we believe this to be true, Dallas-based

Aspartame Consumer Safety Network vigorously opposes today's approval

and urges consumers to avoid the new fake sugar if they want to remain

healthy.

Neotame is aspartame plus 3-di-methyl-butyl, which can be found on the

EPA's list of most hazardous chemicals. The aspartame formula is

comprised of Phenylalanine, which caused seizures in lab animals and

Aspartic Acid, which caused "holes in the brains" of lab animals -

bonded by Methyl Alcohol, or Methanol which is capable of causing

blindness, liver damage and death.

Methanol, or wood alcohol in aspartame breaks down further in heat and

in the body, into Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), Formic Acid (venom in

ant stings) and the most deadly of all -

Diketopiperazine (DKP), a brain tumor agent. ACSN's files contain in

excess of 10,000 responses from the public, including thousands of

serious adverse reactions to Monsanto's aspartame.

As a founder of the world's burgeoning anti-aspartame movement, Stoddard

was the first non-M. D.

engaged to lecture at a major medical school on the topic of Aspartame

(Jan. 1997).ACSN founder, Stoddard recently concluded a multi-city

lecture tour and finds interest in this topic to be extremely high -

here and all over the world. Recently, a story appeared in London's

Sunday Mirror, featuring an adverse reaction of a child whose parents

are members of A. C. S. N. (Aspartame Consumer Safety Network).

Aspartame has been identified and denounced as a major risk factor by

consumers in over a dozen countries.

According to FDA Toxicologists who gave testimony with Stoddard in 1987

at a Senate Hearing on the subject - the tests to get aspartame approved

were falsified. Deaths of lab animals were covered up and went

unreported. Many criminal acts were committed and the perpetrators went

unpunished.

Based on over a decade of epidemiological research and work with

consumers and health care professionals, Stoddard urgently implored the

FDA to unequivocally deny any form of approval of Neotame. ACSN's

warnings fell on deaf ears when Stoddard and co-founder, ,

Esquire met with top FDA officials in Washington in

1998 to plead their case. Today, four years later, FDA approval was

announced in the national media.