Holland Sweetener Company, which sells aspartame, is a member of ILSI (ILSI 2003, Guardian 2003). The ILSI funds research on aspartame and other industry concerns. The ILSI Aspartame Committee is made up of the NutraSweet Company, Ajinomoto Co., Coca Cola Co., Pepsico, Inc., Royal Crown Co., Seven-Up, Inc., and other manufacturers of aspartame-containing products [Gordon 1987]. Just what you want for scientific objectivity, eh? 

News Target’s Mike Adams continued, "What we have here is a case of yet more pro-aspartame propaganda being paraded around as legitimate science.  It's really more of a junk science fraud fest designed to prop up the aspartame industry a little longer even as new science keeps coming out showing the chemical sweetener to be potentially quite dangerous to health.

For the Ajinomoto Company to fund a review by paying money to industry-friendly consulting groups that coincidentally happens to find aspartame to be perfectly safe strains credibility to such a degree that only a fool would put any weight in this announcement.  It's like the R. J. Reynolds Company announcing nicotine is not addictive or Coca-Cola declaring that high fructose corn syrup does not promote obesity.”  "Of course aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine is dangerous to human health.  The chemicals it breaks down into (which include formaldehyde) are documented as nervous system toxins.  In the natural health industry, aspartame is well known to be an "excitotoxin" -- a substance that harms and kills nerve cells.  On top of that, there are literally hundreds of thousands of accounts of people suffering with aspartame consumption.  No other food or beverage ingredient has generated more consumer complaints to the FDA that aspartame." 

 Today there is a 1000 page medical text on the world plague - Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com  by H. J. Roberts, M.D.  A text by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com   Even a movie that exposes Don Rumsfeld for being responsible for getting this toxin marketed when the FDA said "no".  He was CEO of Searle at the time. 

After the FDA revoked the petition for approval http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc and even tried to have the manufacturer indicted for fraud (Defense team hired the US Prosecutors) Rumsfeld said he would call in his markers and get aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine marketed.  He was on President Reagan's transition team, and the day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner  to do the deadly deed. Knowing it would take about 30 days to get Hayes to the FDA he actually wrote an executive order making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame  until Hayes got there. 

He over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer for $1000.00 per day on a ten-year contract.  See it all in Sweet Misery:  A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv Mike Adams at News Target summed it up:  "TRYING TO PROP UP A CHEMICAL THAT WILL SOON BE ILLEGAL:  The days of aspartame’s dominance as a sweetener are nearly over." 

 So, Hawaiians: please don't be fooled by this review in Toxicology; it is just junk science, another attempt to stumble the public into using a product that once was listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress.  Read  it in NutraPoison on www.dorway.com   It's also in the Ecologist with a time line:  http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf, much of which was already published in the Molokai Dispatch, one of the few media outlets in Hawaii which is treating these concerns seriously, along with many many articles and testimony posted at Hawaii Reporter.com!

The Honolulu Advertiser, the largest circulation paper on the Hawaii Islands, seems to essentially dismiss all of this as fanatic paranoia, and has declined to publish my commentary on their editorial pages. Perhaps someone reading this could submit his or her own analysis to the Advertiser and to the Star Bulletin; maybe being from Hawaii would make a difference to their editorial page editors? Please speak up and object to Dr. Fukino of the Department of Health using this junk science, paid for lock stock and barrel by the world’s largest manufacturer of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine, as the crux of her “expert testimony” to kill the bill. Please speak up and object to Dr. Josh Green, M.D.,  denying the bill a vote in his Health Committee.

Please ask him if he or any of the other committee members have watched the film/DVD that has been given to them, Sweet Misery, by Tucson documentarian Cori Brackett. Reminiscent of Super Size Me, it is somewhat horrifying and very compelling, but all of this is likely to go nowhere if that House Committee on Health can’t or won’t take the time to watch the most compelling and accurate documentary on this subject ever made. Consumer lawyer and former Ralph Nader Raider Jim Turner is in it; Dr. Russell Blaylock and Dr. H.J. Roberts are in it….

I will ask our activists and colleagues in Honolulu to give a copy of this to Dr. Fukino to watch with an open mind: if she has one and if she has true dedication to protecting the health of the people of your great state, she will want to recant her “expert testimony, “ which relied entirely on an industry-paid for “study.” 

There are those in Honolulu who counsel us to move slowly, Hawaii is different than the mainland, start a petition and have 20,000 people sign it over the year, come back to the Legislature then, move slowly, don’t make Josh Green angry, don’t even ask these questions about how much the legislators received in campaign contributions from Coca Cola, who was that guy working for Monsanto who came to the House Health Committee hearing but didn’t say a word, who looked so much like the Phantom of the Opera, don’t expect Hawaii to understand all of this nasty regulatory perfidy overnight, try to answer the needs of the diabetics who use Equal and drink Diet Cokes and chew sugarless gum, even though ingesting a chemical that is metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde is about the worst thing you could to your malfunctioning pancreas….. 

Perhaps they are right. If they are right, Hawaii’s situation is indeed hopeless, since everyone must grovel around and be obsequious about not offending Josh Green, M.D., Emergency Room Physician, ignoring or not being able to grasp the epidemiological proportions of 6000-8000 products containing this terrible neurotoxin. However, I am not asking Josh Green to do anything but wake up to what is really going on and to quit being such great pals with the Phantom of the Opera lobbyist from Monsanto, that mystery lobbyist whose name has thus far eluded us. 

Perhaps Dr. Fukino, DOH Director, may never get the truth that is needed to do her job correctly in the aspartame/methanol department. At least, she could watch Cori Brackett’s DVD. I hope this is not too much to ask of her? The only hope for victims of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine poisoning is that the next President, be it Obama, Clinton, or that chap from Arizona, will recognize the import of all of this and appoint a new FDA Commissioner who can rescind approval for aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde/diketopiperazine and a host of other dangerous chemicals, presently “generally recognized as safe.”  

When activists and physicians call Ajinomoto on their lying, they simply don't answer because they can't, and because it’s all a matter of public record; we quote that record.  

There still reminas the Senate Bill sponsored by Kalani English and Suzanne Chun-Oakland, although it has yet to be even scheduled in Sen. David Ige's Health Committee so please call him and ask him to schedule it; if he doesn't, that bill dies.

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