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FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe' 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?"[16]
To fulfill its obligation to protect the public in matters of food and drug safety, the FDA must invoke the "Delaney amendment" and revoke its approval of aspartame.[17]
The undersigned certifies, that, to the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, this petition includes all information and views on which the petition relies, and that it includes representative data and information known to the petition which are unfavorable to the petition.
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K Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM Date
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[1] No environmental impact statement is required by anything said in this petition
[2] Soffritti M, et al. EHPonline.org (http://www.ehponline.org/members/2007/10271/10271.pdf, accessed June 13, 2007).
[3] Soffritti M, et al. Env Health Persp. 2006;114:379-85
[4] Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Food Additives, Flavouring, Processing Aids and Materials in Contact with Food. The EFSA Journal. 2006;356:1-44.
[5] A Coca-Cola website indicates that a diet soda contains 175 mg of aspartame. (click here, accessed June 18, 2007) Other web sites indicate slightly different amounts.
[6] The quantities of soft drinks would be significantly lower if dosages were calculated on the basis of body surface, as some agencies do, instead of body weight.
[7] Jacobson M. Liquid Candy--Supplement (Center for Science in the Public Interest, 2005).
[8] FDA-CFSAN. FDA statement on European aspartame study. April 20, 2007. (http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fpaspar2.html, accessed June 19, 2007)
