NCI Study Links Aspartame to Leukemia/Lymphoma

May 17, 2009 - PRLog -- NCI STUDY LINKS ASPARTAME TO LEUKEMIA/LYMPHOMA

EFSA blesses formaldehyde-forming aspartame on April 20
NCI backs study linking formaldehyde to leukemia, lymphoma on May 14

From Mission Possible International

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced April 20, 2009: …“on the basis of all the evidence currently available including the [second] published ERF study there is no indication of any genotoxic or carcinogenic potential of aspartame and that there is no reason to revise the previously established ADI (allowable daily intake) for aspartame of 40mg/kg bw/day.”  

EFSA is blinded by allegiance to commercial interests so it invents objections to acclaimed medical research, disregarding the suffering, ruined lives and death their cupidity brings to an entire continent.

In 2005 the renowned Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences reported a rigorous three year study on 1,800 rats, concluding: aspartame causes significant increases in lymphomas/leukemias and is a multi-potential carcinogen.  EFSA invented “deficiencies” in the study to protect manufacturers pet poison. The second study, ERF 2007, entirely verified the first.   Dr Morando Soffritti, who led both projects, noted that so much formaldehyde developed in aspartame-exposed rats that their skin turned yellow.

Who is the European Food Safety Authority?   In 2002 a review of aspartame by the European Commission, Scientific Committee on Food attempted to pass off this deadly addictive drug as safe.  An assessment by the European Anti-Fraud Agency (OLAF) revealed the opinion was written by a single person and not by the entire Scientific Committee on Food.  OLAF did not reveal the name of this individual or any scientific expertise or conflict of interest he/she had.  


America’s FDA approved aspartame as a synthetic sweetener in 1981.  However studies given the FDA by the manufacturer hid the fact the poison caused tumors in lab rats.


An interesting twist of formaldehyde fate

On May 14, 2009, the National Cancer Institute confirmed the link between formaldehyde and cancer.  The NCI’s Laura E. Beane Freeman, Ph.D. reported that an extended analysis of workers exposed to formaldehyde was associated with a 37 percent increased death-risk from lymphoma and leukemia.  “The overall patterns of risk seen in this extended follow-up of industrial workers are consistent with a causal association between formaldehyde exposure and cancers of the blood and lymphatic system and warrant continued concern,” Online: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

According to Kristina Fiore of MedPage Today, “Since the 1980s, the Institute has studied a cohort of 25,619 workers employed before Jan. 1, 1966 in 10 industrial plants that produced formaldehyde in molded-plastic products, photographic film, decorative laminates and plywood. The formaldehyde cohort, originally assessed through Dec. 31, 1979, was then updated through Dec. 31, 1994.”

Researchers have not yet identified the mechanism by which formaldehyde causes leukemia but the pattern is consistent with “a possible causal association, with the largest risks occurring closer in time to relevant exposure.” She called for further study to “evaluate risks of these cancers in other formaldehyde-exposed populations and to assess possible biological mechanisms.”

Toxicologist, Dr. George Schwartz, told team NutraSweet in 1999 they had presented a one-sided self serving polemic defending their potentially dangerous product and said, “As one example, your comment that “formate is quickly eliminated by the body” is demonstrably false. ..  The study done by Trocho et al, Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo.  Life Sciences 63:5:p.337-49, 1998, clearly demonstrates cellular persistence and accumulation, or in layman’s terms, that formaldehyde can remain and accumulate in the body.”  

.  www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf

EPA listed formaldehyde as a probable human carcinogen in 1987.  In 2004 the International Agency for Research on Cancer went further classifying formaldehyde as a “known human carcinogen” based partly on research suggesting a link to leukemia.  

Dr. Woodrow Monte (Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health) in New Zealand saw that the New Zealand Food Safety Authority was concerned formaldehyde was found in pajamas.  He wrote:  “If you are concerned about formaldehyde in your pajamas then think twice about taking it with your breakfast cereal.

Dr. James Bowen said:  “Other examples of this toxic axis are the extreme poisonings caused by formaldehyde, which plasticizes corpses, and is a deadly carcinogen.  Both acute and chronic poisonings from methanol with the several other synergistic poisonings from aspartame ingestion steadily accumulate within aspartame consumers until finally hastening or culminating in fatal events.”

“The NCI study confirms the work of Dr. Soffritti,” said Mission Possible Director Dr. Betty Martini. “Now we have to get the NCI to realize that the ‘biological mechanisms’ that cause formaldehyde-induced cancers from workplace exposures are likely to be identical to the ‘biological mechanisms’ causing aspartame-induced cancers.  Research shows formaldehyde, which aspartame produces, causes lymphoma and leukemia in both lab rats and people.  EFSA’s general review of aspartame will be completed in November.  With their tight relationship with industry what should we expect?  

FDA has admitted aspartame carcinogenicity; nevertheless the NCI and NIH recently said aspartame is a safe artificial sweetener.  

Note:  For 30 years the neurotoxicity/carcinogenicity of aspartame have been demonstrated in numerous studies posted on the sites below. This research is confirmed by the case histories of thousands of victims who suffered dread infirmities or died from the myriad complications from this chemical poison.   This could end if the NCI announces workplace formaldehyde and dietary formaldehyde have the same affect on the body and produce the same cancers.

FDA Toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress in 1985 aspartame violates the Delaney Amendment because it causes cancer and an allowable daily intake should never have been allowed to be set.

Russell Blaylock, M.D. said in “Health and Nutrition Secrets to Save Your Life”:             “So in the case of diet drinks in aluminum cans, the very toxic brain aluminum        fluoride compound co-exists with multiple toxins found in aspartame, thus creating the most powerful government-approved toxic soup imaginable.”    

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Contact:  Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder,
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599, or bettym19@mindspring.com

For references confirming material in this article:
www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame - OLAF Comment:  http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002-postscript.htm
Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.sunsentpress.com

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com

Aspartame documentary:  Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv   Clip explaining political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld in approval:  http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld.html

What the real aspartame experts said about EFSA’s review:  http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?p=1939  

FDA audit:  Bressler Report:   http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=56

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