Dr. Betty Martini Founder Mission Possible International asks for Testimony for Hawaii Aspartame Ban

Feb. 10, 2008 - PRLog -- Who Filched the Testimonies Supporting Hawaii's HB 2680 Bill to ban Aspartame?

A great deal of effort was applied by victims with their stories  and physicians who sent the scientific evidence that aspartame isn't safe to Hawaii Health Committee Chairman, Rep Josh Green, M.D.

At the meeting none of the excellent testimony of physician experts and scientists was read. They had been sent but mysteriously disappeared!  

Posted on the legislature's website:

"Although Rep. Josh Green (D-North Kona) sympathized with supporters who have been affected by the artificial sweetener aspartame, he was unable to immediately pass a bill that would ban the artificial sweetener aspartame in food products without concrete evidence showing a connection between aspartame and medical ailments. We can't take numerous amounts of products off Hawaii store shelves without evidence of a connection, he said."

Rep Josh Green, M.D. at repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Rep. John Mizuno at repmizuno@Capitol.hawaii.gov

H. J. Roberts, M.D., sent his encyclopedic 1000 page medical text, "ASPARTAME DISEASE: AN IGNORED EPIDEMIC" to Dr. Green.

James Turner, the renowned consumer attorney and former Nader
Raider who fought against the approval of aspartame with neuroscientist Dr. John Olney explained: "The toxicity of this deadly carcinogen is well known. The FDA not only refused to approve aspartame for years, but asked the Department of Justice to indict G.D. Searle, the manufacturer, for submitting fraudulent test reports to get the poison approved. The evidence was overwhelming and Searle's case was impossible to defend, so their attorneys seduced the federal prosecutors, Sam Skinner and Wm. Conlon, who negotiated for jobs with Searle's lawyers while they were supposed to
prosecuting Searle!  

Before switching sides they stalled until the statute of limitations was about to run out so Searle couldn't be prosecuted later. Justice died, as have thousands of aspartame victims in the 25 years since.

"The Board of Inquiry of the FDA revoked the petition for approval since aspartame couldn't be proven safe and triggered brain tumors.  Thus science never proved aspartame safe.  Don Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle at the time and said he would "call in his markers" (a direct quote from Rumsfeld) to get it on the market.  That he did.  

FDA scientist,  Dr. Adrian Gross and FDA toxicologist Dr. Jacqueline Verrett testified against aspartame before Congress for it being on the market.  It violates the Delaney Amendment because it triggers brain tumors and brain cancer, adulteration statutes and Interstate Commerce."   http://www.wnho.net/delaney_lives.htm

The Congressional and Administrative News: Legislative History of Food Additives Amendment of 1958 declares: "Safety requires proof of reasonable certainty that no harm will result from the proposed use of an additive ... In determining the 'safety' of an additive, scientists must take into consideration the cumulative effect of such additive in the diet of man or animal over their respective life spans together with any chemically or pharmacologically related substances in such diet.  Thus, the safety of an additive in such diet.  Thus, the safety of a given additive involves informed judgements based on educated estimates by scientists and experts of the anticipated ingestion of an additive by man and animals under likely patterns of use"

Original studies produced brain tumors and brain cancer as well as testicular, mammary and ovarian tumors plus grand mal seizures and an extensive list of other disabilities. Studies  by Searle in Dr. Olney's lab (so he could see for himself) showed brain damage but they never sent the report to the FDA, in the documentary, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World", www.soundandfury.tv
Aspartame is only masquerading as an additive and is an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts with other drugs and vaccines.  Martha M. Freeman, M.D., of the FDA Division of Metabolic and Endocrine Drug Products concluded even back in 1973 about Searle's studies:

"The administration of aspartame, as reported in these studies at high dosage levels for prolonged periods, constitutes clinical investigational use of a new "drug" substance."

The information submitted for our review is inadequate to permit a scientific evaluation of clinical safety."

As to life time study of aspartame on animals, Dr. M. Soffritti showed in a 2005 study that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen:  www.Ramazzini.it

"Aspartame (APM) is one of the most widely used artificial sweeteners in the world. Its ever-growing use in more than 6000 products, such as soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, desserts, etc., has been accompanied by rising consumer concerns regarding its safety, in particular its potential long-term carcinogenic effects."

In light of the inadequacy of the carcinogenicity bioassays performed in the 1970s and 1980s, a long-term mega-experiment on APM was undertaken at the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center of the European Ramazzini Foundation on groups of male and female Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/sex/group), 8 weeks old at the start of the experiment. Treatment lasted until spontaneous death of the animals. The results of the study demonstrate that APM causes: (a) an increased incidence of malignant tumor-bearing animals, with a positive significant trend in both sexes, and in particular in females treated at 50,000 ppm (P d 0.01) when compared to controls; (b) an increase in lymphomas-leukemias.The results of this mega-experiment indicate that APM, in the tested experimental conditions, is a multipotential carcinogenic agent. "

In 2007 Soffritti's new study:
"Lifespan Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame Beginning During Prenatal Life Increases Cancer Effects in Rats"
The aim of Soffritti's new study was to identify the cancer risk aspartame presents, starting with the mother's ingestion before the fetus is born. Dr. Philip Landrigan at Cedar of Sinai School of Medicine, says Dr. Soffritti's study on rats strongly implies human risk.

He advises parents of young children to think very very carefully about aspartame-contaminated foods to children. He advocates federal action be taken to review regulation of aspartame and that the chemical be submitted for precise critical investigation. The abstract and link to the full text to be published on EHP online, is on the homepage of the European Ramazzini Foundation: www.ramazzini.it

Aspartame carcinogenicity was known by the FDA for decades:

On August 1, l985 FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one of Searle's studies "has established beyond ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental extremely high significance. ... In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?"

In his concluding testimony Gross asked, "Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would the 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?" Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
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