As a fellow legislator and member of the New Mexico State Senate, I write to you now to say that I support your efforts to ban aspartame. 

I am concerned that there is incontrovertible medical evidence that ingesting aspartame, which includes methanol and formaldehyde, is doing entirely avoidable, terrible, medical damage, particularly in causing neurodegenerative illnesses. 

            Unfortunately, the FDA has shown no interest in rescinding its approval thus far.  Hawaii, though, is in a strong position to limit or entirely prevent it from being imported in products coming from the U.S. mainland and foreign countries.