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Health Canada's Step Backwards from Consumer Protection to Corporate Propaganda

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For the following statement from McIntyre in her response letter, we give her the Emperor's New Clothes award for twisted doublespeak and manipulation of the truth; in reality she is just passing on industry propaganda. She says:

"Aspartame has been permitted for use as a sweetener in Canada since 1981. It underwent a thorough safety evaluation prior to being approved. Over the years, questions about the safety of aspartame have periodically appeared. One example was a claim in 2005 by the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Science that aspartame caused cancer in rats. Health Canada, the United States Food and Drug Administration and the European Food Safety Authority evaluated the studies upon which this claim was based. All three food safety assessment authorities found that the results of the studies did not support the Ramazzini Foundation's conclusions."

Notice she gives no indication of why. Who do they use to deny this study? Obviously, Health Canada which never wanted to approve it in the first place, the FDA who wanted the manufacturer of aspartame indicted for fraud, and the EFSA whose Chairman, Dr. Herman Koeter, resigned and said, "We were pressured by industry to hijack science."

See also: ERF STANDS BEHIND ASPARTAME STUDY RESULTS, ANNOUNCES ONGOING RESEARCH ON ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS: RESPONSE TO EFSA'S AFC PANEL DECISION //www.ramazzini.org/comunicato/erf-stands-behind-aspartame-study-results-announces-ongoing-research-on-artificial-sweeteners-response-to-efsas-afc-panel-decision/

EFSA tried to come up with the silliest objections like the rats had respiratory disease. Dr. Morando Soffritti who did the study said, "Of course, the rats had respiratory disease, it was a lifetime study. Respiratory disease is the dying process and the rats were dying." Dr. Soffritti turned them inside and out and made fools of them.

The next outrageous tactic of industry was to say they had come up with a study that showed aspartame safe. A blizzard of media articles proclaimed a Federal Study on 567,000 Americans by the NIH, NCI and AARP proved aspartame doesn't cause cancer. The only problem was there was no study.

[Ten years prior to the Ramazzini Study, the National Institute of Health and AARP sent out a 16 page "Diet and Health Study" questionnaire to seniors. It asked if you smoked, do you exercise, do you eat crackers, cookies, sausage, collards, and pancakes, what was your highest grade in school, have you had a hysterectomy; did you eat oatmeal or strawberries in the past year, carrots, cheeseburgers, cornbread or brownies?" We call it the Cornbread and Brownie Study. Aspartame is indirectly referred to in one of 56 questions. On page 12 they ask if you drank any sugar free soft drinks, soda or pop over the last 12 months, but don't ask which sweetener. This cockamamie claptrap of a "study" is pure propaganda like Hitler's Master Race mythology, and these poisoners would be even greater mass murders, slaughtering the world with their aspartame included as an ingredient in more than 15000 products and more than 6000 medications.]

Dr. Soffritti's studies were peer reviewed by seven world experts. He went on to receive a prestigious award only given twice in history.

I notice that McIntyre did not mention the study that Harvard University did, which showed the same thing that the Ramazzini Studies showed except the subjects were humans. They said it was the longest and strongest. Industry shut them up instantly; then they turned around and apologized for publishing the study.

Karen McIntyre's last remarks are simply the same kind of misrepresentations purposefully crafted by and then perpetuated by most complicit agencies:

"Health Canada continues to review studies on dietary exposure to food additives, including aspartame, as they become available. If new scientific information were to emerge in the future indicating that aspartame or any other permitted food additive is unsafe, then Health Canada would no longer permit it to be used. "

What are they waiting for? Are 900 studies showing the dangers of aspartame not enough? These are ones that are known about. Many have been done in other countries and never published like the ones Norma Vera, translator told me about in six countries, sacrificing people from poor villages. From brain tumors to seizures the reports were horrendous. Mrs. Vera gave me a notarized affidavit.

Keep in mind we have Mission Possible chapters in 45 countries and I alone have spoken with or received emails, letters, etc. from at least 50,000 victims in 28 years, and I'm just one person. There have been at least three congressional hearings over it which you can read on www.mpwhi.com

The complaints so over-powered the FDA that in the Senate it was reported that the FDA was sending them to the AIDS Hotline to get rid of them. CDC did such a horrendous investigation which revealed everything from seizures, blindness and behavioral problems to cardiac arrest, that they published a summary contradicting it instead of the real thing. You can also read this investigation on the same web site.

One might ask how the original manufacturer or the aspartame industry could show any study to any agency of the government or anyone to convince them a poison is safe for human consumption. They knew independent scientists would be doing studies showing aspartame to be a dangerous chemical, so they set up their own research front group to pay researchers to say aspartame is safe called ILSI, International Life Science Institute, as mentioned above. As U.S. Right to Know cites:

ILSI WIELDS STEALTHY INFLUENCE FOR FOOD, AGRICHEMICAL INDUSTRIES. tk.org/tag/conflict-of-interest/

Here is another: "US Agencies Accused of Conflict of Interest"

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