You said when I brought up all the original records that these had already been addressed. Who did FDA address them to? Certainly I got no response. The FDA did not even reply to my petition to ban for 14 years, you know the one that is suppose to be answered in 180 days. Then neither Dr. Ken Stoller who also wrote for a ban, or myself got the letter. We only saw it because the National Law Review published it.
The old FDA tried to protect the public. The new FDA is when President Reagan wrote an executive order preventing the FDA from signing the revoked petition for approval of aspartame into law and appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as Commissioner to over-rule the Board of Inquiry. All he had to do was add another person to create a tie, and then break the tie by over-ruling the Board. When Don Rumsfeld said he would call in his markers and get aspartame approved this is how he did it. Hayes reward was going to work for Burson Marsteller, the PR company of the manufacturer for $1000.00 a day on a ten year contract. According to one article Hayes was only there about 15 days. Reward for Don Rumsfeld? He got twelve million when G. D. Searle sold to Monsanto.
The point of all this is if aspartame was never proven safe than how can you put Advantame on the market, especially since FDA has admitted they have been swamped with complaints for years. Also, rather than go into why Advantame has not been proven safe, all the unpublished studies, none long term, and the problems they had excuses for like the rabbits appeared to be particularly sensitive to Advantame with female deaths reported , decreased ovarian weights and also miscarriage, I'll just add the report: http://gefree.org.nz/assets/A1034.doc This is from GE Free New Zealand and is the most indepth I've seen. There was everything from congestion of the lungs in males to enlarged livers in male mice.
You make regulations and don't enforce them. Take for instance, the regulation on adulteration and aspartame is adulterated. In the protest of the National Soft Drink Association reported to FDA in 1983 they said to FDA: "Aspartame is inherently, markedly and uniquely unstable in aqueous media. In a liquid, such as a soft drink, aspartame will degrade as a function of temperature and pH. Higher temperatures and more acidic liquids increase the rate of degradation." The NSDA also knew the use of such an unstable chemical sweetener is illegal and said under Section 402 of
the FDC Act 21 U.S.C. 342: "a food is adulterated if it contains in whole or in part . . . a decomposed substance of it is otherwise unfit for food." This report became part of the Congressional Record in l985. FDA ignored that aspartame violated the adulteration regulation. Winston Food Laboratories in testing Diet Coke that had been refrigerated several years ago found that it had already broken down to diketopiperazine, the brain tumor agent. (Robert Cohen). It was even published in the Food Chemical News. It didn't mean a thing to FDA who operates above the law. It travels by Hazmat Placard like other poisons. It, therefore, violates Interstate Commerce laws that say an adulterated product for sale cannot be shipped by IC.
Advantame is called a flavor enhancer like Senomyx. FDA allowed Senomyx to be labeled under artificial flavors. Neotame is in pork unlabeled. How much of the population do you believe knows about this. Aspartame is so poisonous that it causes chemical hypersensitization. Victims carry epipens. I'm a victim of it myself because aspartame is being put in so many generic drugs and all gastrointestinal generics have it according to one physician who checked. It violently interacts with pain medication and I stopped breathing three times when these aspartame generic drugs were given to me. It was a good thing I was in the hospital. I also had urticaria from head to toe which aspartame triggers. Will Advantame also be labeled under artificial flavors. All ingredients of a product should be on the label. When is the last time FDA went after a product that has undeclared aspartame like in Mars bars. They told me it was under artificial flavors. Just how much of the public do you believe knows that even though they could go into anaphylactic shock?
In an article about a new device that picks up poisons and unsafe food it says they found aspartame undeclared in juice and soda pop. So what assurances do we have about Advantame. Aspartame, Equal, Neotame and Advantame need to be banned. If you find more excuses to keep a poison on the market for human consumption, not adding a pregnancy warning is unconscionable. You will see the teratology information added back to the Bressler Report: http://www.mpwhi.com/complete_bressler_report.pdf It was FDA scientist Dr. Thomas Collins who wrote aspartame causes birth defects on one of the forms. I explained that to Dr. Collins wife who said: "He won't speak to anybody about it, no matter who calls."
So they got to him but its in his handwriting and in the material added back,
Under my signature read on the letters from FDA scientist and aspartame investigator, Dr. Adrian Gross. Long as they might be he explains the studies were worthless and is a time bomb. They remind me of the affidavit given to me from Jana Marie who shredded the studies for G. D. Searle in an affidavit. She said: "Here's what was going on. The copies were being sent to France, then I was shredding them, too and the originals were being shredded. They were about the new product not yet on the market, EQUAL. They were the lab results from the tested rats and other animals. The results were outrageous. This stuff killed everything it touched.
"I overheard a conversation on the second day by the "boss" and the girls who was telling me what to do. She told him what I was doing and that I was also doing the faxing to France. He was livid and started screaming at her, "What if she reads some of this stuff?" she told him I was too stupid to know what I was reading, even if I did.
"What she didn't know was that I was a doctor's daughter, that I had 3 years of college and I was extremely intellegent. Nor did she know that all during my father's college years when he was in charge of the animal lab at his college, he would take me to help give the rats their injections. I knew what I was reading." So I'm waiting to be addressed on the fact that all the studies proved aspartame was never proven safe and triggered everything from cancer to seizures.
When you receive a medical text ("Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" by H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.amazon.com) that gives the mechanisms by which aspartame triggers or precipitates disease, drug interactions and all the other scientific information, and you tell me there is no science or mechanisms in it, I know the aspartame industry wrote the letter for you. It takes real arrogance to lie to that extent.
Now tell me with aspartame never being proven safe and almost 100% of independent studies showing the problems why its still on the market and how you could approve Advantame. Why no pregnancy warning? Since the FDA wanted G. D. Searle indicted for fraud, and they were unable to prove it safe, industry studies are not acceptable. If it couldn't be proven safe then it can't be proven safe now.
Sincerely,
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible World Health Intl
www.mpwhi.com
>>>>>>The above letter was in response to this one from the FDA
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