Rather than accept the truth that aspartame is a neurotoxic carcinogenic poison, Health Canada responds with corporate driven misrepresentation concealing the medical harm done to Canadians' health by not prominently labeling the presence of this destructive chemical; expect more of this kind o thing in other nations, if Monsanto/Bayer merger goes unblocked for serious health concerns, not just legal discussions of monopoly

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Parliament's Library Ottawa Ontario Canada

This article was co-authored by Dr. Betty Martini and by Stephen Fox

A letter from Karen McIntyre, Director General, Food Directorate, from Health Canada, tried to allay any and all of our fears on the aspartame issue. In my recent article (which was recently sent to every member of the Canadian Parliament), entitled Impending Epidemiological Disaster, If Health Canada Removes Labeling from Artificial Sweeteners

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Here is McIntyre's letter:

http://www.wpwhi.com/health_canada_responds_no_to_clearly_label_sweeteners.htm

Our article quoted directly from the article on regulations announcing the changes that Health Canada was intending to implement:

"The FDR amendments would repeal labeling requirements related to high-intensity sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-potassium and Neotame. Food products containing these sweeteners will no longer require a statement that the food contains the substance, whether alone or in conjunction with other sweeteners, and will no longer require a declaration of the amount of high-intensity sweetener in the list of ingredients. However, where a food product contains aspartame, it will remain mandatory for there to be a declaration that phenylalanine is present."

However, McIntyre wrote entirely contradictory positions about this in her recent response (the point being that deemphasizing or putting in small print any mention of artificial sweeteners is not the same as their original statement that there will be no further requirement to list them in the list of ingredients)

""Health Canada is proposing to repeal a duplicative labeling requirement for foods containing aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-potassium, and neotame. The proposed regulatory amendments would simply remove the requirement for any of the four sweeteners mentioned above to be shown on the principal display panel of prepackaged foods. All sweeteners, including these four sweeteners, will still be required to appear in the list of ingredients on the product label as is the case for all other food additives. There is a small subset of the population that has a metabolic disorder requiring that they avoid or limit their intake of phenylalanine. Since this amino acid is present in aspartame, the label of foods sweetened with aspartame will still be required to carry a statement to the effect that aspartame contains phenylalanine (it is proposed to also allow use of the alternative statement "Phenylketonurics: contains phenylalanine").

First of all, as a lukewarm and lackadaisical step towards the ultimate real solution which would be banning aspartame, these products are not at all safe and need to be labeled up front, visibly and prominently, not just in some tiny ingredient list that a lot of people may not be able to or are not inclined to read.

FDA scientists involved in the investigation of aspartame, and who asked for the original aspartame patent holder G. D. Searle to be indicted for fraud, told the Senate on 8/1/85 that aspartame was illegally on the market because it caused cancer and violated the Delaney Amendment and FDA should not have even been able to set an allowable daily intake.

The FDA banned it twice, in 1974, telling them not to use it and then trying to have G. D. Searle indicted for fraud. Both US Prosecutors took positions with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. They still sold it in 1974; a neighbor of mine was involved in building the Augusta, Georgia factory and told me about it and said it almost killed him, he was so sick.

In 1980 the FDA Board of Inquiry revoked the petition for approval. Then Searle brought in Don Rumsfeld; President Reagan owed him a big favor, so Reagan wrote an executive order making the FDA powerless to sign the revoked petition into law. It was marketed through the political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld and never proven safe.

Secondly, Sucralose was invented by an insecticide researcher. In this Aspartame Resource Guide, it gives you several of the serious problems that have been found with Splenda/sucralose. [.mpwhi.com/aspartame_resource_guide.pdf]

Dr. Morando Soffritti of the renowned Ramazzini Institute did a study on it and found it too, to be a carcinogen. Founded in 1982, Collegium Ramazzini is an independent, international academy with 180 invited members from more than 30 countries. Its members are internationally renowned experts in the fields of occupational and environmental health. They are world renowned in cancer researcher and are "independent." For this research, Dr. Soffritti received the prestigious Irving J. Selikoff Award.

Thirdly, acesulfame potassium also caused cancer. I had it removed from a health food store for this reason and received a call from Dr. Abe McCall from the company who said, "But it didn't cause brain tumors like aspartame, only mammary tumors!" I told him that was not so, since medical texts even cite leukemia, "but no thank you, neither do we want breast cancer".

What if the presence of aspartame were not clearly stated on the package but were in tiny print you can hardly read and some pregnant woman throws it in her grocery cart not knowing it causes autism, neural tube defects, cleft palate, spina bifida, etc.? .rense.com/general96/asparautism.html

Sometimes aspartame is only listed under natural flavors and people don't even know that's where the manufacturers have hidden it.

So much of the real truth has been kept from the public that many organizations continually write articles about these sweeteners. Mission Possible World Health International has for 28 years been warning the public, and doing it free simply to save as many as possible. If these were not seriously dangerous products, why do independent scientific peer reviewed studies show the facts that are denied and swept under the rug by corporate funded studies? In the case of aspartame there are 900 "independent studies" with all the proof anyone would need (even Health Canada, in its recently displayed twisted corporate manipulated regulatory stupor!)

How many people do you think Health Canada tells that aspartame was listed by the Pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress? Want some references: I refer to a UK publication, The Ecologist:

.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf

They don't take advertising from Big Pharma and were interested only in getting out the truth.

If you really want to know where aspartame originated you might want to read: "The Swirl and the Swastika"

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Parliamentarians in Canada have recently already been sent the real truth about aspartame's harm in the form of this Parliamentary Motion from the United Kingdom, from Roger Williams of Wales, in late 2005, entitled Early Day Motion 1517, signed by 46 other members of the House of Commons, calling for a ban of aspartame in the UK. It was tabled on 30.01.2006

We now send it to you again, if there are any Parliamentarians sufficiently skeptical of the very evident corporate manipulation of Health Canada:

"Early day motion 1517 - TOXIC PROPERTIES OF ASPARTAME - UK

.parliament.uk/edm/2005-06/1517 Primary sponsor: Williams, Roger Sponsors: Campbell, Gregory Hancock, Mike Llwyd, Elfyn Spink, Bob Taylor

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That this House expresses deep concern over the numerous independent toxicological studies and thousands of subjective reports attesting to the toxic effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame on human health; notes that aspartame, once patented as a biochemical warfare agent, is the synthetically produced methyl ester of a dipeptide which is readily broken down in the gut to release methanol; further notes that in naturally occurring foodstuff methanol is either not released into the body or present together with natural defence mechanisms that mitigate its toxic effects; recognises that methanol is a well-known poison and is further converted into formaldehyde, a class A carcinogen according to the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer; accepts that severe health concerns occur from the gradual accumulation of formaldehyde in the body which cannot be excreted and that further research has shown that long term low level exposure to formaldehyde induces leukaemia and nasopharyngeal cancer in humans; acknowledges that of the 166 studies conducted on aspartame's safety deemed relevant to humans, 92 per cent. of independently sponsored studies identified one or more problems with aspartame's safety whereas industry-sponsored studies found unanimously in favour of aspartame's safety; and urges the Government to abide by the precautionary principle and make use of Statutes 13 and 16 of the 1990 Food Safety Act to remove aspartame from the permitted list of additives on the UK market.

Total number of signatures: 46

Please be aware of some of the independent studies, like the Trocho Study which showed that the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA. Here is that study:

.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf

How could anyone allow something like this on the market? It is said that the methanol from aspartame is released in the intestines but after reading this study you must realize that it is released in the cells. In the Ramazzini Studies showing aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen, there was so much formaldehyde the rats' hair turned yellow.

In Health Canada's response, McIntyre wrote:

""Regarding the safety of aspartame when used as a food additive, food additives, artificial sweeteners included, are strictly regulated in Canada."

This is some kind of a ludicrous and mendacious joke. Canada turned it down twice before the FDA was forced to approve it through Donald Rumsfeld's actions, one of the dirtiest tricks in the long and checkered history of the United States Food and Drug Administration. Health Canada, like the FDA, has competent chemists who can recognize the harm done by the amount of formaldehyde metabolized from aspartame, and thus all along have known, just like the FDA knew. Here is an excellent article from some trial lawyers titled:

Lawsuits and Documented Evidence of Harm -- Yet Aspartame Remains FDA Approved click here

Canadians and indeed the rest of the world may not know about how aspartame was approved. The forced approval of aspartame through the efforts of Don Rumsfeld and President Reagan occurred in 1981, and then began the rubberstamping of aspartame around the world. No agency doing studies and seeing the poisonous nature of aspartame would ever approve it.

How did it get approved in England? Through a business deal with Professor Paul Turner. This was all detailed in an article in the Guardian: .wnho.net/how_aspartame_got_approved_in_england.htm

When Parliament found out they were furious, yet they did not rescind the order. The UK's Food Standards department was then set up in an effort to keep the agency away from industry. Today they are no better than the FDA. Industry is writing all the propaganda and if you point it out and give proof they refuse to change their web site.

Now people are sick from consuming aspartame in England so now the European Commission Scientific Committee on Food is going to do a review. How do you take a poison and then determine that it is safe? Simple: by cheating. OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office investigated and found that no committee made the decision, just one person.

An excellent analysis of the situation by Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center can be found at:

.holisticmed.com/aspartame/sci2002-postscript.htm

What happened because of this? The European Commission Scientific Committee on Food became inactive and EFSA was set up. You have to give England credit: they tried and tried to keep agencies away from industry but to this day they still play musical beds with industry. EFSA has such a conflict of interest that it is appalling. All you have to do is investigate. Now EFSA is going to do a review on aspartame and what do they do? They plagiarized a manufacturer funded review and copy the text with minimal word changes. For an entertaining read on how EFSA did it:

holisticmed.com/aspartame/EFSA-Draft-Plagiarism.htm

Let's take another country - New Zealand. I visited Food Standards there to find out much of what they had was wrong as well, and after showing them documentation, I asked what studies they did for approval. It was admitted they relied on the FDA and never did any studies.

Similarly, aspartame's approval was rubber-stamped around the world and when independent studies show the horrors the Trocho Study showed, industry fights back by trying to assassinate the character of the researcher as they did Dr. Alemany. Read his story here: http://www.mpwhi.com/letters_to_the_hhc.htm

This is what honest researchers are put through to punish them for telling the truth! "Aspartame strictly regulated in Canada" is nothing more than industry strictly regulated by the FDA in the US, EFSA in England and Food Standards in New Zealand. What a joke!

A few brave souls at the FDA in 2009 even wrote to former President Obama and said the FDA was broken and if they spoke out they feared reprisals. Here is the documented information: click here

The whole point of what Health Canada is doing is to keep hiding the name aspartame as much as they can. Reading letters from these agencies is like reading a comic book that has nothing to do with reality, completely absurd, yet devastating when you comprehend that such corporate induced and manipulated intransigent fol de rol becomes the law of the land, as administered by Health Canada.

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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Gregory Gordon did an 8 month investigation of aspartame for United Press International and wrote this article on aspartame, which also discussed ILSI:

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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Gregory Gordon did an 8 month investigation of aspartame for United Press International and wrote this article on aspartame, which also discussed ILSI: .mpwhi.com/upi_nutrasweet_questions_swirl.pdf

Some years ago I received a call from someone from ILSI in Atlanta who had used aspartame and was ill. In her conversation, she clearly restated the obvious, that they were not at all independent. If you want research funds, you have to say aspartame is safe.

Thus, whenever you hear an agency say "we looked over some studies that showed aspartame safety," think of ILSI. What study was pivotal in the approval of aspartame was a 52 week oral toxicity study on 7 infant monkeys fed aspartame. Five had grand mal seizures and one died.

What about the rest of the original studies? A task force was set up by the FDA which discussed them and exposed the disgraceful behavior behind these horrible studies. In fact, G. D. Searle filed suit to have the task force remarks stricken from the record so the public would never see them, but we have them and they are systematically detailed in this revealing article: .wnho.net/whopper.htm

You simply can't do any study on an already proven poison and have it show safety!

Stacks of medical texts and books on aspartame have given the facts for decades. For example:

"Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" by Internist H. J. Roberts, M.D., 1000 pages of symptoms and diseases, www.amazon.com

"Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills", by Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com

"While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills by Dr. Woodrow Monte

How many pages are there are in any Google search for such things as "dangers of aspartame"? - There are 1, 870,000 different webpages. You could read for years. Under aspartame there are about a million and a half results. 269,000 results under "aspartame is a killer"! Over 57,000 on "aspartame murders infants." 691,000 under "aspartame reactions." Would Health Canada and Canada's Parliament members dismiss all of that as if smoke doesn't necessarily mean fire? Or as Internet junk science, as industry critics and their ignorant paid whore lobbyists are so quick to maintain?

How do they get studies to perpetuate the corporate perfidy that aspartame is safe? To start with, they have their own research front group, ILSI. But there are so many evidences, on Google just under aspartame is poison there are over 100,000 results.

Every part of the net screams aspartame is deadly except for the trade organizations that receive funding from the industry and those paid to say it's safe. years and what were those conversations and how much of those conversations ended up in the regulatory failures about to occur in dropping strong labeling for artificial sweeteners? I don't know, and couldn't find out, because 1) I am from a different nation, and 2) even if I were a Canadian, unless I were a member of Parliament, I would have no subpoena nor interrogatory powers to ask questions, but members of Parliament in Committees do have such powers.

There are now 6 class actions on aspartame for deceptive advertising trying to get away with calling soda with aspartame "diet" when it has caused an epidemic of obesity. Read all about it:

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And who is Karen McIntyre? Among other organizations, she is a member of HEALTH AND MEDICINE DIVISION in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine:

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One wonders what might be one source of the totally corporate propaganda at the heart of the present and future policies and regulatory pronouncements of Health Canada, and who, if anyone is infusing Health Canada with such misrepresentations? Which corporations have been speaking with Heath Ministers, both present and prior? I am not a Canadian, nor do I have any subpoena or interrogatory powers, but members of Parliament meeting in committees to get to the truth of matters do indeed have interrogatory and subpoena powers.

I mention these board members of the HEALTH AND MEDICINE DIVISION, because it is interesting, the very clear connections between government regulators and industries to be regulated. Among this group we have both former and current representatives of Monsanto, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Dr. Pepper, Cargill, Nestle, Unilever, General Mills, Chobani Yogurt, Ocean Spray, Mars Candy, Conagra, ndy, Hills' Pet Nutrition, and Codex Alimentarius.

[Very similar backgrounds and representation, albeit with different names and different companies on the European Food Safety Authority]

On the above cited board for Canada and the United States, we find:

Arti Arora, Ph.D., vice president Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at Coca-Cola North America. In her role, she provides strategic thought leadership, stewardship and governance to the SRA function for North America. She has been at The Coca-Cola Company for over ten years in various technical and leadership positions, and previously worked at Kellogg's in Research and Development. Dr. Arora has held leadership positions at several organizations including the Institute of Food Technologists, AOAC International, American Chemical Society and American Oil Chemists' Society. She served twice as a member of the USDA National Research Initiative grant review panel. Dr. Arora holds a PhD in Food Science from Michigan State University, a MS in Food Science from the University of Maine and BSc (Honors) in Food and Nutrition from Delhi University. She conducted her post-doctoral training in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Arizona.

Another member of this group with the requisite corporate language in her short resume here:

Joy Dubost, Ph.D. R.D., L.D., is the regional head of Nutrition and Health, External Engagement, North America at Unilever located in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Unilever is committed to making sustainable living commonplace through the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP), which is central to their business model. At Unilever she is responsible for leading advocacy coalitions, leveraging private sector partners, and outreach and engagement of a diverse set of agencies and associations to improve nutrition and public health in North America. In addition, Dr. Dubost is engaged with setting the short and long-term nutrition strategic direction for all Foods and Refreshment categories in North America, ensuring alignment with the global nutrition agenda. [What precisely is the global nutrition agenda, and who precisely put forth such an agenda?] Prior to joining Unilever, she served as the Senior Director of Science and External Affairs at the Beer Institute where she was the primary scientist providing expertise on scientific evidence and communications as it relates to moderate alcohol consumption. Prior to this role, she served as the Senior Director of Nutrition at the National Restaurant Association where she provided leadership and expertise on a wide spectrum of food science and nutrition issues related to the restaurant and foodservice industry. In this role, she was responsible for the development and implementation of the award winning, nationally recognized children's dining program called Kids LiveWell. Dr. Dubost was also previously employed as a Principle Scientist at PepsiCo Incorporated, where her focus was in product development and nutrition communications.

Daniel Goldstein, M.D. serves as lead, medical sciences and outreach & senior science fellow, at Monsanto Regulatory Affairs. He is involved in plant biotechnology, pesticide, and children's health issues and has served on the EPA Child Health Protection Advisory Committee and the EPA Science Advisory Board (early-life exposure to carcinogens), as an advisor to the North American Free Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperation (child health indicators), and as a Leadership Council member, Biomonitoring Working Group member, and Chair of the Chemical Use and Exposure Pathways Sub-Group for the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemicals in the Environment.

Danielle Greenberg, Ph.D., FACN, is senior director Global R&D, and senior fellow in Nutrition Sciences at PepsiCo Incorporated. At PepsiCo she is responsible for providing scientific expertise on issues concerning nutrition and health. Dr. Greenberg joined PepsiCo as part of the Public Affairs and Science and Regulatory Affairs groups and was responsible for communications both internally and externally in the areas of nutrition and scientific affairs.

Then we have Jean Halloran, director of Food Policy Initiatives at Consumers Union, the policy arm of Consumer Reports. She is currently responsible for developing policy and staff initiatives on reducing antibiotic use on livestock and antibiotic resistance, as well as labeling of genetically engineered food. Ms. Halloran helped organize the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), a coalition of groups in Europe and the U.S., and serves as its U.S. liaison point. She represented Consumers International at Codex Alimentarius, in developing standards for safety assessment of genetically engineered foods.

Kate J. Houston, M.S. is director of government relations and policy for Cargill, Inc., a global producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services based in Wayzata, Minnesota. Ms. Houston advises Cargill's food and ingredient businesses on critical issues in food safety and nutrition--two public health imperatives important to Cargill's long-term success. She is a Board Member of the Congressional Hunger Center, The International Food Information Council, and Common Threads DC, a non-profit organization preventing obesity by teaching low-income children to cook healthy meals.

Wendy Johnson, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., is Vice President of Nutrition, Health and Wellness at Nestle' USA, past chair of the food and nutrition section of the American Public Health Association, and recognized public health researcher.

Christina Khoo, Ph.D. is currently director of research sciences at Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., managing the research sciences group to develop a strategy for health platform to support cranberry health benefits and strengthen the Ocean Spray Brand. Her current focus is on urinary tract health, maintaining heart health, and improving lipid profile, obesity, inflammation and immune function. Dr. Khoo is also responsible for the pesticide screen strategy and analytical testing labs to ensure the high technical quality and improvement in testing efficiencies for incoming ingredients and the cranberry ingredients. Prior to that, she was a senior research scientist at Hills' Pet Nutrition where she was responsible for the GI Health platform and developing basic and clinical research projects in 5 different areas for the improvement of GI health. She received her M.S. in nutritional sciences (1992) and Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry (1995) at the University of Florida.

Catherine Kwik-Uribe, Ph.D. is Global Director of Applied Scientific Research and Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, Mars Symbioscience, a division of Mars, Incorporated. In her current role, she is responsible for managing scientific affairs and regulatory compliance for Mars Symbioscience.

Suzanne Nielsen, Ph.D., is currently a professor in the Department of Food Science at Purdue University. She has been a faculty member at Purdue for the past 33 years, and served as Department Head of Food Science in 2003-2013. Prior to that role she had an active research program in the area of protein chemistry. Dr. Nielsen has taught numerous Food Science classes, and has edited four editions of a Food Analysis textbook. She chaired for four years the Food Chemicals Codex Committee when it was under the National Academy of Sciences.

[Please also see: Scott Tips - Codex Alimentarius: Making Sickness Compulsory - AVII - The National Health Federation

.youtube.com/watch?v=QRp94aioq28]

also: Codex Alimentarius - Global Food Imperialism Paperback

by Compiled and Edited by Scott Tips (Author)

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Health Canada would do well to discuss aspartame and its proven harm with Robert C. Post, Ph.D., M.Ed., M.Sc., the Senior Director, Chobani Health and Wellness/Corporate Affairs, at CHOBANI, LLC, the leading yogurt manufacturer. (Dr. Post previously served as key nutrition advisor to the former White House/First Lady's Office and collaborator on the White House Let's Move! Initiative.)

The multi-media advertising blitz for Chobani's Simply 100 Greek Yogurt line emphasizes that the products do not contain artificial sweeteners or artificial preservatives. Chobani's advertising "notes that sucralose, an artificial sweetener found in Dannon Light & Fit Greek Yogurt, is processed with added chlorine, which prevents sucralose from being broken down into the body for energy, according to the FDA," according to a Jan. 11 2016 news release from Chobani.

Kristin Reimers, Ph.D., R.D., is a registered dietitian and Director of Nutrition & Health at Conagra Brands, where she leads the team efforts focused on nutrition science interfacing with innovation, company-wide nutrition acumen, consumer outreach, and food policy and regulations. She has been with Conagra for 11 years.

Claudia S. Riedt, Ph.D., is senior director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS).

Sharon Ross, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a program director in the Nutritional Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health. In this capacity, she is responsible for directing, coordinating and managing a multi-disciplinary research grant portfolio in diet, nutrition, and cancer prevention.

Maha Tahiri, Ph.D., is vice president, Chief Health and Wellness Officer at General Mills, Inc.

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If I were able to speak directly with Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, I would first remind him of his father's insights about how living next to the United States is like "sleeping next to an elephant," and how little he thought of those "pipsqueaks in the Pentagon." Then I would ask him to do several things:

1) Either by Prime Minister's Executive Order, if possible, or by a concerted parliament action, ban all imports of all products containing aspartame into Canada, including both food products and medicines. This would include products and the chemical itself from the United States, as well as Japan, the home of Ajinomoto, plus other manufacturers in China and India.

2) In the meantime, until the above is accomplished, don't permit Health Canada to de-emphasize labeling on all artificial sweeteners

3) Speak with both President Trump and Vladimir Putin, to ask them to block the merger of Monsanto and Bayer, which I believe would otherwise lead to the demise of the 8000 year history of agriculture as we know it, by forcing the majority of farmers to buy their seeds from this monopoly.

4) Speak with or write to every head of state represented in the European Union, and bring up the health concerns pertaining to the Bayer/Monsanto merger, which have not been adequately addressed under the pall of focusing on monopoly and anti-trust divisions. In other words, the tentatively merged companies, through BASF, will put up $6 billion in escrow or in a trust, so to speak, to prevent any abuse of other corporate interests, but this has absolutely nothing to do with the inevitable harm to farmers and consumers alike from the use of GMO seed technology, Roundup/Glyphosate Weed killer, and December, another weed killer that has already destroyed millions of acres of soybean production in the United States.

These developments pose as much of a threat to the future of mankind as did the development of nuclear weapons back in the Thermonuclear Arms Race Era. The agricultural problems are more subtle and far more insidious.

Bayer-Monsanto merger was opposed by more than a million people and opinion polls indicated that 54 percent of EU citizens thought it was "very" or "fairly important" that the European Commission blocked it.

From Friends of the Earth Europe:

"This merger will create the world's biggest and most powerful agribusiness corporation, which will try to force its genetically modified seeds and toxic pesticides into our food and countryside," Adrian Bebb, food and farming campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, said in a statement. "The Commission decision also allows them, together with BASF, to become data giants in agriculture--the 'Facebooks of farming'--with all the pitfalls that entails. The coming together of these two is a marriage made in hell--bad for farmers, bad for consumers and bad for our countryside."

Also two of my prior articles on this subject:

Please write to your Senators today, asking them to help to prevent the Merger of Monsanto and Bayer!

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EU may Intervene to Prevent Monsanto/Bayer merger; CA Judge: Monsanto "Not Required to Place Warning Labels on Products"

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Authors Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev