Does Aspartame Cause Cancer?

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OPEN LETTER TO FDA: CERTIFIED MAIL

DELANEY AMENDMENT: If a product causes cancer in animals it cannot
be put in food!

The late FDA Toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, testified to the Senate:
"In view of all 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? Is it not
clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that aspartame has caused brain
tumors or brain cancer in animals?

"Given that this is so (and I cannot see any kind of tenable argument
opposing the view that aspartame causes cancer) how would the FDA
justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame
(50mgm/kgm body weight) as constituting an ADI (Allowable Daily
Intake) or "safe" level of it? Is that position 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?"

Your toxicologist admitted you broke the law by approving
aspartame. He also said the significance of the studies is much
greater if one considers that brain tumors in rats is very rare: the
historical control rate for such tumors amongst large populations of
rats indicates that no more than 49 animals afflicted with them have
been found amongst nearly 60,000 rats, an incidence rate of less than
1/10th of 1% FDA never fails to consider this aspect of the
"historical control" incidence. ... One cannot help wondering just
why they failed to consider this particular aspect in reference to
the cancer-induction of aspartame. Had they addressed the historical
incidence of brain tumors amongst rats as presented by Dr. Olney,
they could not have failed to conclude what I have concluded: -
tumors amongst the rats exposed to aspartame increases many-fold
" 8/1/85 Senate, S 10839 - 10840

FDA broke other laws, as shown in the National Soft Drink
Associations long protest against approval, found in the Senate
Congressional Record of 5/7/85 Pages S5507-9: Section 402 of the FDC
Act 21 provides a food is adulterated if it contains, in whole or in
part a decomposed substance or if it is otherwise unfit for
food. Searle has not demonstrated to a reasonable certainty that
aspartame and its degradation products are safe for use in soft
drinks. ... 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.

The hotter it gets the quicker aspartame decomposes. NSDA next
reveals Searle deliberately used the wrong test: "High pressure
liquid chromatography is a far superior analytical method relative to
thin layer chromatography and numerous HPLC methods exist for the
detection and quantification of amino acids. Searle's choice of TLC
over HPLC adversely affected the quality and type of analytical data
generated on aspartame and its decomposition products in soft
drinks.. .. an important decomposition product of aspartame, aspartic
acid cannot be detected at all using TLC. The inability to account
for as much as 39% of aspartame's decomposition products is
significant. The marked and rapid decomposition of aspartame in soft
drinks under temperatures known to prevail is apparent from data in
the present record and discussed above in these objections."

When responsible scientists, physicians and legislators try to
protect us from these criminals the industry with bottomless
checkbooks annihilate our rights and welfare. Arizona DHS studies
showed aspartame in beverages breaks down into free methanol, wood
alcohol, formaldehyde, diketopiperazine, formic acid (among other
toxins), and a ban of aspartame was being considered. In 1985 Dr.
Woodrow Monte, Director of Food Science and Nutrition Lab, Arizona
State University, petitioned for a hearing to ban aspartame, because
high temperatures in that state accelerate methanol and formaldehyde
formation. By an unusual maneuver the legislature altered the text in
a Toxic Waste Bill so to ban regulation of FDA-approved food
additives. This scuttled the hearing Dr. Monte had been promised.

How are these abominations maneuvered? G. D. Searle lobbyists were
Andrew Herwitz, Governor Babbitt's former Chief of Staff, and other
powerful hacks. Then Searle officials contributed to the campaign of
Arizona House Majority Leader Burton Barr. The Committee to Reelect
Barr gave campaign contributions to state representatives Don
Aldridge, Karen Mills, & Jan Breuer. They all voted on the side of G.
D. Searle. The legislators were bought and paid for, and cared not
for Arizona citizens. (Gordon 1987)

Another trampled law: Interstate Commerce regulations prohibit
shipping adulterated products, including drugs, across state lines.
All aspartame products are adulterated!

By law an additive must be inert. Its illegal to sell a drug as an
additive. In original studies aspartame triggered brain, mammary,
uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors and is an
excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug. The 2005 3-year Ramazzini Study
on 1,800 rats confirmed what FDA knew from the beginning: aspartame
is a multipotential carcinogen that caused leukemia, cancer of the
kidneys, lymphoma and cancer of the cranial peripheral nerves. Only
the rats fed aspartame developed malignant brain tumors. Producers
complain researchers let test animals finish their lives rather than
killing them at 24 months before most cancers develop. Standard
practice is to kill the animals before they get sick. The Ramazzini
study was peer reviewed by 7 world experts.

So FDAs Consumer Online Magazine, February 2006 assures
us: [Aspartame] has come under fire in recent years from individuals
who have used the Internet in an attempt to link the sweetener to
brain tumors and other serious disorders. But FDA stands behind its
original approval of aspartame, and subsequent evaluations have shown
that the product is safe. A tiny segment of the population is
sensitive to one of the sweetener's byproducts and should restrict
intake. However, the agency continually monitors safety information
on food ingredients such as aspartame and may take action to protect
public health if it receives credible scientific evidence indicating
a safety problem"

A tiny segment? How about everyone who uses it? In 1995 FDA listed
92 symptoms from 10,000 volunteered consumer complaints including 4
types of seizures, sexual dysfunction, dozens of neurological
problems, comas and death. So you stopped publishing the list and now
deny it existed. I've sent another 10,000. Renowned doctors have
written you. An avalanche of case histories has swept over you from
afflicted victims and survivors nationwide. I have copies of them.
You want evidence? Consider this:

For 16 years FDA rejected aspartame because of brain tumors. Then Don
Rumsfeld, CEO of G. D. Searle Co, went to Washington with Reagan and
the next day his buddy Arthur Hayes was appointed FDA
Commissioner. To avoid any action against aspartame an executive
freeze was ordered by Ronald Reagan, treacherously making the
outgoing Commissioner powerless till Hayes got to town. Reagan was an
Alzheimers victim, which dread affliction aspartame invokes. It is
rumored he was addicted to Equal (aspartame). Memory loss is number
9 on your list of 92 symptoms for this brain eradicating neurotoxin,
right under seizures, number 8.

Hayes approved aspartame over the objections of his own scientific
Board of Inquiry. Searle was in money trouble until Hayes opened the
golden door. Then he came under investigation for
conflict-of-interest, so Hayes parachuted with a 10-year consulting
contract from Searles PR firm for a reported $1,000/day. Consultants
don't need to show up for work; just answer questions on the phone,
you know: Hows the fishing, Artie?

Aspartame interacts with all drugs and vaccines:
http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm
Aspartame-using athletes can drop dead:
http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm
Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 1,038 page medical
text http://www.sunsentpress.com
Excitotoxins, The Taste that Kills http://www.russellblaylockmd.com
Greek studies on aspartame, Jan, 2006
http://www.wnho.net/newgreekaspartamestudies.html
Aspartame makers also manufacture
deceit http://www.wnho.net/whopper.htm
http://www.wnho.net/recipefordeath.htm

Doctor Ralph Waltons investigation of funding & study-results
revealed 92% of independent studies show aspartame is a toxin. To
show it's safe the producers have to buy & control the study, as they
did the Arizona legislature. http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html

Roger Williams, Member of Parliament, has called for a British ban.
England wouldn't have approved aspartame had FDAs intended indictment
been known. Searle sneaked it thru by dealing with Paul Turner of
Food Standards, who approved it without publicity. A Guardian
article detailed the collusion.

FDA asked the Justice Department to prosecute G. D. Searle Co. for
fraud, but the producers hired the prosecutors and the case expired
with the statute of limitations. Neat trick! As an encore a parade
of FDA officials including 3 Commissioners have been welcomed into
the aspartame business. Telling FDA of aspartame toxicity is like
complaining to the Mafia about murder.

In the CDC documentary: SWEET MISERY: A POISONED WORLD [amazon.com &
Barnes & Noble] see Atty. James Turner, former Nader Raider, explain
how Don Rumsfeld called in his markers to get it approved. FDA had
revoked approval because of the brain tumor issue, and because it was
not proven safe, leaving this question: For 16 years until Hayes
overruled your Board of Inquiry the FDA denied approval and tried to
indict Searle for fraud: So why lie about it now? Is there other
answer than political corruption? Meanwhile you attempt a rule change
to prevent states from writing food safety laws. Do you intend to
erase the 9th and 10th articles of the Bill of Rights which forbid
federal takeover of the rights of states and citizens? This nation
was founded as a democratic republic, but you would make it a
bureaucratic dictatorship!

In the Falklands Robin Goodwin has called for a ban. In New Mexico
Stephen Fox has petitioned the Environmental Improvement Board and
the Board of Pharmacy to ban aspartame in New Mexico based on the
fact that aspartame is adulterated and against the law. Governor Bill
Richardson III has been asked by 10 New Mexico State Senators to
declare a state of public health emergency, in accordance with NMSA
12-10A-5. The emergency derives from consumers in New Mexico
consuming methanol and formaldehyde, derivative aspartame metabolites.

You say you "may take action" to protect public health if you receive
credible scientific evidence indicating a safety problem? A mountain
of absolute evidence is in your possession! The impeccable Italian
study proves aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. The bottom
line of the new Greek study is Alzheimers. The worlds
population are guinea pigs, daily proving aspartame destroys the
brain, central nervous system, immune system and retina, causes
cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, precipitates diabetes, interacts
with all drugs and vaccines, triggers obesity and is an endocrine
disrupting drug, an abortifacient, adjuvant and teratogen that brings
birth defects and retardation. University of Texas epidemiological
study on 8 years data linked diet drinks with obesity just a few months ago.

Obviously your allegiance is to Big Pharma & their lobbyists, who are
the Washington infestation destroying America with chemical weapons
of mass destruction, while you pretend to be saviors and seek to
outlaw vitamins and herbs.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/060207

30 years ago when FDA had a conscience you asked for prosecution of
G. D. Searle Co. under Title 18, Section 1001 of the US Criminal
Code: "Whoever, in an matter within the jurisdiction of the
executive, legislative or judicial matter branch of the Government of
the United States, knowingly and willfully
* (1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or
device a material fact;
* (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or representation;
* (3) or make or uses any false writing or document knowing the same
to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement
or entry, shall be fined under the title or imprisoned.

FDA, you are now precisely guilty of those crimes as you ensnare the
world pronouncing aspartame safe when you have full knowledge it's
deadly. Your own toxicologists, Doctors Adrian Gross and Jacqueline
Verrett, observed Searles attempts to make their poison show safety.
They couldnt do it, as Jerome Bressler explained in an FDA audit.
They were caught.

Four years ago I filed a Citizens Petition for ban:
http://www.wnho.net/citizens_aspartame_petition.htm The law requires
an answer in 180 days, which law you broke, and brazenly wrote me
that you have matters of higher priority. Saving consumer lives is
low priority? Or was it impossible to answer my petition that proved
from government records that you lie to America?

James Bowen, M.D. with Lou Gehrigs disease from aspartame, wrote FDA:
"The only responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame
off the market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full
compensation to the injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone
who participated in the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the
marketplace. That includes those who work so diligently to keep it on
the market as well."

In secret trade information Searle said: "We have no way of
estimating maximum likely abuse and hence need to utilize data based
on almost complete conversion to DKP. If we include this use in the
original FAP, we stand a good chance of ending up with nothing in the
short run and nothing in the long run where as the other approach
would give us something in the short run and, quite likely as much as
we would ever get in the long run." DKP is the brain tumor
agent. They knew aspartame would cause brain tumors worldwide.
Premeditated mass murder! www.dorway.com

I demand that you invoke the Delaney Amendment! Atty. James Turner,
who worked with Dr. John Olney against aspartame approval, declares
the Delaney Amendment remains in full force, although many have
attempted to repeal it and Michael Taylor wrote a clause attempting
to minimize it. The Ramazzini study confirms aspartame is a virulent
carcinogen. This requires FDA to invoke the Delaney Amendment which
is emphatic - if a product causes cancer in animals it CANNOT BE PUT IN
FOOD.

This should have been done 30 years ago, as your scientists
advocated. Refusal will confirm once more that FDA is run by
political lapdogs dedicated to their personal aggrandizement,
treacherously condemning multitudes to disability and death. Mission
Possible is a volunteer force warning consumers worldwide about
aspartame because FDA refuses to fulfill its commission to enforce
laws protecting us, and so you despoil
the nation's health.

Were taking aspartame brain tumor cases in NY and NJ for litigation,
and this is just the beginning. This is written as an open letter so
all reading it will send it to their congressman, explaining how FDA
has sanctioned mass poisoning by bureaucratic fiat.

I had the pleasure of meeting with Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino who
sponsored the New Mexico Senate aspartame bill. The tactics of the
lobbyists, with the morals of rapists preyed on his mind, so the Senator
wrote:

Aspartame Buys Time: By Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino 2/19/06
Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the corrosive influence
of money on our public policy. I'm not just talking about the
shenanigans inside the beltway of our nation's capitol-that Congress
is for sale to the highest bidder has unfortunately become a
practically accepted tenet of the American belief system.

So accepted is it that the astounding arrogance and venality being
revealed by the current Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff scandals in the
District of Columbia scarcely produce raised eyebrows, let alone outrage.

But I'm not just talking about that. Nor am I talking only about the
way that moneyed interests are able to sway local government toward
policies that benefit those interests; hey, we apparently prefer a
system in which local elections go to the highest bidder and
business-as-usual involves twisting contractors' arms to secure
campaign contributions.

Instead, today I'd like to zero-in on the pressure applied to our
third level of representative government, the carryings-on that occur
in the halls of State Government ... in all its branches.

And from among at least a dozen recent, painful examples of how big
business manages to protect itself from such wet-blanket
considerations as the good of the public, I'd like to select one as a
representative: the continued approval of the reliance by processed
food and beverage manufacturers on the chemical aspartame.

As an artificial sweetener, one now being added to some 6,000
products, it is difficult for most Americans to not consume aspartame
daily. Its safety (and clearing up any doubts about that safety)
would seem to be of critical importance to millions of us. But any
discussion of this topic has been postponed in New Mexico
indefinitely-through influence exerted by representatives hired by
the Japanese manufacturer of aspartame, the Ajinomoto Corporation.

Those well-connected hired hands managed, in December, to frighten
the State Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) into backing off of
the public hearings into aspartame's safety that they had originally
agreed to conduct this coming summer. They managed this delay by
challenging the authority of the State of New Mexico to review
anything already approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) and by threatening to sue the state if we tried to do so.

Then those same hired hands resurfaced (augmented by the addition to
their team roster of Butch Maki, a close confidant of Gov. Bill
Richardson) in time to quash all attempts to discuss the matter
during the just-concluded State Legislature.

There was one hearing on the subject and it drew significant numbers
of the industry lobbyists, all of whom asserted the same party line:
The substance is perfectly safe; the Federal Government has looked at
it carefully and who the heck is New Mexico, anyway, to raise any
questions about it?

The committee succumbed, and turned down the measure to ban aspartame
7-2.

That half-hour hearing was the total discussion of the matter this
year in the public arena in New Mexico, unless the EIB board changes
its mind and decides to call Ajinomoto's bluff by going ahead and
holding a hearing.

The incredible spectacle of corporate hirelings exerting this kind of
influence is, to our great shame, all too common in our state. The
Legislature has resisted reforming campaign finance laws to inject
some real muscle, which leaves the door wide open to the corporate
powers to throw money around strategically, buying whatever access
they need or blocking their opposition's access to the policymakers.

But no one should be surprised that Ajinomoto would rely on muscle to
protect its profits from aspartame. The entire history of this
product's approval by the FDA is rife with muscle flexing ... and
very little in the way of science. Originally, it was a patent of the
Searle Pharmaceutical Company. And beginning in the late '60s, the
FDA repeatedly turned down Searle's submissions for approval, the
results of its testings leaving serious doubts in the minds of FDA
scientists.

All of that changed in 1981 when Ronald Reagan took the presidency.
He listened to the then head of Searle, Donald Rumsfeld, (yes, that
Donald Rumsfeld) who bypassed the scientists and went straight to the
new Reagan appointee at FDA. Within weeks, the scientists were
overruled and aspartame was approved. Several FDA scientists resigned
in protest. They even alleged that Searle had fabricated results in
the testing submitted.

Twenty-five years later, the evidence is mounting that our growing
incidence of brain tumors, organ cancers and neurological diseases
has followed the introduction of so many artificially created
additives and chemicals in our food. It's only a matter of time until
even Ajinomoto's money won't be able to block the unavoidable link
between these unnecessary products and our decline in health.

When that happens, as it finally did to tobacco and lead and other
heavy metals found in gasoline, we will act. The sad thing is that
thousands of deaths and ruined lives will occur between now and then.

One of the cruel ironies to aspartame is that it was supposed to
create sugar-free soft drinks for the benefit of diabetics. Since its
introduction, the incidence of diabetes has soared. Some critics link
the two. What is clear is that it ain't helping.

With all that money and muscle behind it, aspartame has evaded its
comeuppance for another year. But the final reckoning can only be
postponed, not avoided.

End of the Senator's letter

BE WARNED: A higher judge, untouchable by bribes, has pronounced the
inevitable consequence of such duplicity: "Woe to you who are
despoiling and who are dealing treacherously As soon as you have
finished as a despoiler, you will be despoiled.
As soon as you have done with dealing treacherously, they will deal
treacherously with you." Isaiah 33:1 NWT

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599
www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame -
Aspartame Toxicity Center