- From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
www.dorway.com and www.wnho.net
11-28-5
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- November 28, 2005
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- The Honorable William Blaine Richardson
- The Honorable Patricia Madrid
- The Honorable Stuart Bluestone
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- Dear Governor Richardson, Attorney General Patricia Madrid,
and Deputy
- Attorney General Stuart Bluestone:
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- Below please find the letter I wrote the EIB in September
proving that aspartame violates both State and Federal Statutes on Adulteration.
I want each of you to take the time to read the EIB letter from September,
and this more current one to you with my responses to the Ajinomoto of
Japan's New Mexico lawyer's brief asking that the Board of Pharmacy not
move forward with any hearing on aspartame's neurotoxicity. Thus, you will
know that aspartame is a product that is poisonous, mislabeled, and adulterative,
making it unfit for human consumption.
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- If aspartame were under consideration for approval today
based on science instead of by the politics of Don Rumsfeld http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.htm,
there is no way it would be approved today. The FDA refused approval for
16 years, and at one point, even asked the Justice Department to prosecute
the manufacturer for fraud and submission of false documents! This is the
first and only time in its history that FDA did this. However both prosecutors,
Sam Skinner and William Conlon, hired on with the defense team representing
the industries, and the statute of limitations expired.
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- FDA continued to deny approval, and another branch of
the Federal Government, the Department of Defense, was doing research on
using aspartame as a biological weapon against other nations. Then Donald
Rumsfeld, President of G.D. Searle, who was also on Reagan's transition
team, "called in his markers," as he worded it, and his choice
for the new FDA Commissioner, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, was appointed. It
mattered not that aspartame was a proven carcinogen and triggered in original
studies brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, pancreatic and thyroid
tumors, as well as testicular atrophy, polyps and seizures.
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- Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA toxicologist, told Congress that
aspartame, without a shadow of a doubt triggers brain cancer and violates
the Delaney Amending forbidding carcinogenic additives. Hayes ignored the
objection of his own Public Board of Inquiry and approved it in 1981. Dr.
Gross told Congress in l985 that since it triggers brain tumors, FDA could
not by law have set an allowable daily dose. In 1987 FDA toxicologist,
Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, testified to Congress that all Searle's studies
were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out; it had not
been proven safe, though it was on the market in thousands of products
at that time.
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- FDA is the handmaiden of Big Pharma, their loyal attack
dog. Dr. James Bowen of Hawaii, who has Lou Gehrig's caused by aspartame,
has written that before the FDA approved aspartame, it was intact, but
once it was approved and FDA had to lie about its safety, it is as though
they no longer cared. One employee of the FDA told the mother of an aspartame-seizure
victim: "We revoked the petition for approval; we tried to indict
the company; we said it wasn't safe, and we said it caused seizures and
brain tumors. They should have listened to us. Now what do you want us
to do?"
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- On www.dorway.com please see the Bressler Report, an
FDA audit by Jerome Bressler, now retired. It gives the manufacturer indigestion.
I thanked Mr. Bressler for his candor in letting the world know how deadly
aspartame is, and he told me the studies were much worse than his FDA Audit
showed because when they retyped it, they removed the worst 20%. He didn't
say who was behind it but to look for two mice studies and a cover letter
and I would learn how bad it is. Dr. Bressler repeated this to Dr. Russell
Blaylock, a neurosurgeon who spoke to him on the matter. Dr. H. J. Roberts
of Palm Beach Florida asked his congressman to get the missing records.
The FDA wrote the congressman that the information is confidential and
they would not release it. That is against the law, of course, but if the
FDA released this particular information, they'd be found guilty of altering
reports.
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- Dr. John Olney, one of the world's most renowned neuroscientists,
founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, after doing the
studies on MSG and aspartic acid, the acid which constitutes 40% of aspartame
by molecular weight. He found lesions in the brains of mice from these
chemicals and tried to prevent aspartame approval. [An excitotoxin is
a biochemical that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain to death.
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock wrote a book on this subject, Excitotoxins:
The Taste That Kills]. Dr. Olney, fed up with all the fraud, insisted that
Searle do studies in his lab so he could oversee them, and prevent manipulation.
The studies showed brain damage. Dr. Olney thought it would never be approved,
but didn't realize that Searle simply deleted those studies from its report
to FDA.
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- In 14 years, I've spoken to a lot of informants and could
give a course on how manufacturers of aspartame manipulate studies, and
mislead the public. You simply cannot get a chemical poison like aspartame,
a deadly, deadly neurotoxic drug, and carcinogen, to show safety unless
you manipulate the studies for that purpose.
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- One study pivotal in the approval of aspartame was a
52-week oral toxicity study on 7 infant monkeys. Five had grand mal seizures
and one died. However, it's very well known that aspartame is a seizure
triggering drug, and interacts with anti-seizure medication and all medication
and vaccines. It damages the mitochondria of the cells; this is one of
the reasons, and, of course, it is a chemical hypersensitization agent
that triggers polychemical sensitivity syndrome.
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- The FDA report of 92 symptoms from 10,000 volunteered
consumer complaints, more that the complaints to FDA about all other food
additives combined, is on www.dorway.com [In other words, the FDA's own
92 symptom chart shows four different kinds of seizures triggered by aspartame!]
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- Monsanto, which bought Searle in l985, decided they would
do studies to show safety and put the minds of the people at rest. Here's
what they did, in this hopelessly flawed double-blind study funded by Monsanto,
the Rowen study of l995:
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- They were so afraid somebody would have a seizure they
actually had 16 of the 18 subjects taking anti-seizure medication during
the study. They knew the CDC showed that most seizures linked to aspartame
don't appear until three or more months of real world aspartame use, so
they did a ONE DAY study with subjects all having been given in advance
anti-seizure medication!
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- The aspartame was in capsules, so instead of spiking
the plasma phenylalanine level and significantly changing the phenylalanine/LNAA
ratio, the phenylalanine was absorbed very slowly -- more like what happens
when ingesting food (Stegink l987). These researchers discussed in detail
the issue of plasma phenylalanine and LNAA levels. It was particularly
absurd that they gave the aspartame in capsules, even though they cited
industry research (Burns l990) that proves capsulated aspartame eliminates
the spike in plasma phenylalanine! The researchers were pretending to test
the hypothesis that phenylalanine/LNAA ratio changes cause seizures, but
intentionally skewed their dog-and-pony show to get the result they wanted.
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- Capsulated aspartame slows the absorption of methanol
and may reduce its toxicity somewhat similar to the way ingestion of food
with methanol may slightly reduce its toxicity (Posner l975) and also eliminates
the quick absorption of the excitotoxin, aspartic acid (Stegink l987).
When aspartic acid is absorbed quickly, it is extremely excitotoxic (Blaylock
l994, Olney l980), especially in conjunction with formaldehyde that comes
from the methanol in aspartame.
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- This "study" consisted of ONLY ONE SINGLE DOSE
of aspartame ingestion. This was comparable to the test subjects just smelling
the bottle! The results of this study only apply to people who take a single
dose of encapsulated aspartame while they're on anti-seizure medication.
Not only is this study worthless, but also key information wasn't in the
abstract; namely, the fact the subjects were on anti-seizure medication
and that the aspartame was in capsules. This is just one example, and there
are indeed hundreds, of the tactics used by the manipulative criminals
in the aspartame industry who are trying to prevent two board hearings
and investigations by the state of New Mexico into their manipulative techniques
to conceal and misrepresent evidence!
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- Ralph Walton M.D. did an independent study on aspartame,
and Monsanto, knowing they could not control the study, even refused to
sell him the aspartame. After one man had a retinal detachment (the methanol
in aspartame converts to formaldehyde and formic acid destroys the optic
nerve) and lost vision in that eye, and another subject had conjunctival
bleeding while others reporting they were being poisoned, the study was
halted. You CANNOT do an honest study on this chemical poison and show
safety. Poisons are always poisons - period. Dr. Walton's study is on
www.wnho.net (click on aspartame).
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- Further, in l996 when Dr. John Olney made world news
on the aspartame/brain tumor association, Dr. Walton joined him on 60 Minutes
with his research on peer-reviewed studies and funding, showing 92% of
independent peer reviewed studies reveal the problems aspartame causes.
Dr. Walton also stated if you removed the studies FDA had something to
do with 100% of independent studies show the problems with aspartame.
Read this study on www.dorway.com (scroll down to experts).
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- So if all independent studies show problems, what does
this say about industry controlled/ funded studies that say aspartame is
so safe? And why do the manufacturers threaten researchers who do these
independent studies? Dr. Richard Wurtman of the Brain Studies Department
of MIT testified before Congress on how dangerous this drug is. He also
decided to do studies on aspartame and seizures, but was threatened by
the VP of Searle that if he did his research, his funding would be terminated.
Today Dr. Wurtman refuses to speak out about aspartame, yet MIT is getting
funding again. However, he couldn't destroy the paper trail on how deadly
aspartame is. Although Wurtman edited "Dietary Phenylalanine and
Brain Function," this book is now removed from MIT, but many of his
reports are on our web sites explaining the toxicity.
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- Gregory Gordon did an 8 month investigation on aspartame
when he was with UPI (on www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com) also wrote the
article "FDA Resisted Proposals To Test Aspartame" when he was
working with the Minneapolis Star Tribune in l996. The manufacturers manipulate
the FDA into helping them prevent new independent studies, by citing the
ostensible "200 studies that show it is safe." Gordon wrote:
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- "Food and Drug Administration officials have for
years resisted proposals from government scientists for comprehensive studies
on the safety of the artificial sweetener aspartame, which [at least] 100
million Americans consume as NutraSweet. Between the early l980s and l994,
scientists at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS) proposed at least four times that the government's leading program
for toxicology research fund such studies, the Star Tribune has learned.
The government scientists said they wanted the National Toxicology Program
to conduct animal studies to resolve questions about the sweetener's cancer
risks. After each of these "nominations," NIEHS officials elected
not to pursue the research at the urging of FDA officials, who said they
were satisfied with industry- sponsored research that found no health risks.
...
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- "Now, after a scientific paper by researchers at
Washington University of St. Louis has rekindled fears that aspartame may
cause deadly brain tumors, some present and former NIEHS officials are
criticizing the FDA for using its influence to delay research that could
have settled some or all of the safety questions."
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- Perhaps by now, you can understand why no one in the
USA knew that the European Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences
Cancer Research Centre in Bologna, Italy was doing a 3-year study on aspartame.
No independent researcher would want the manufacturers to know, because
they would threaten, try to prevent and harass them. The studies, just
recently released, show just exactly what was expected, that aspartame
triggers malignant brain tumors as in original studies, lymphoma, leukemia
and even kidney cancer and cancer of the peripheral cranial nerves. They
called it a multipotential carcinogen, which we've known for 25 years!
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- In the 1970's, G.D. Searle sacrificed people in South
and Central America who were in poor villages. They developed brain tumors
and seizures; one pregnant woman began to bleed extensively, lost her baby,
and disappeared; and otherwise the studies showed aspartame destroys the
brain and central nervous system. Aspartame also hardened the synovial
fluids accounting for the agonizing joint pain so many victims complain
about. Searle did not publish these studies, although we have the affidavit
of the translator. They promptly closed the Florida office, went back to
Illinois, and sent the physician involved to Mexico.
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- Now FDA will just stick with industry and accept the
flawed studies instead of the real ones. They're complaining the Italian
researchers didn't kill the rats after 2 years but let them live out their
lives. This to determine how many cancers the aged rats would develop,
just as my files are full of cancer reports from older Americans. The
quicker you kill them, the fewer cancers you find!
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- Studies in Norway a few years ago showed aspartame destroys
the brain, especially in the area of learning. The studies in South and
Central America revealed the brain tumors. The manufacturers' own studies
in Dr. Olney's office showed aspartame destroys the brain. The manufacturers
have been caught red-handed so all they can use is their abundant clout
& cash to get regulators to rubber-stamp their poisons. To hell with
the people their poisons kill!
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- This letter has been long and detailed; in order for
you to know beyond a shadow of a doubt, as FDA toxicologist, Dr. Gross,
told Congress, that aspartame is indeed a carcinogen. Dr. H. J. Roberts's
medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, is 1038 pages of
diseases and horrors that this toxin causes. As an abortifacient and teratogen
it has destroyed millions of babies in their mother's womb and caused ADD,
Autism, ADHD, Tourette's, mental retardation and a host of other horrors
to our children.
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- Governor Richardson, thank you for your courage to get
junk food out of school. Please just remember "no sweeteners,"
as they mostly are all chemicals except for Just Like Sugar (available
in Whole Foods) and the sweet herb Stevia. There are products like Xylitol
that can cause some bloating but nowhere near as bad as what it is presently
in soft drinks. With the information I am giving you in this letter, you
and the legislators can strongly stand up to and reject the complaints
of the lobbyists for the corporations which include Ajinomoto, Altria Corporate
Services (Kraft-Philip Morris), the Glutamate Association of America, Pepsi
Cola and Coca Cola, when your excellent legislative efforts in this realm
come before the 2006 legislature.
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- Attorney General Madrid and Deputy Attorney General Bluestone,
please show the same kind of courage in your legal research and your eventual
Opinion for the Pharmacy Board, that they can move forward to hear evidence
on the neurotoxicity of aspartame in medications, vitamins, and aspirin,
despite the fact that this neurodegenerative product technically retains
its ill-gotten FDA approval.
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- Aspartame has caused an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.
It also aggravates and simulates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy and
interacts with insulin. It's a drug that makes you crave carbohydrates
as Dr. Wurtman has reported. [Please see protest of National Soft Drink
Association on www.dorway.com]
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- A book could be written on what the manufacturers have
done! Even in the UPI investigation, it was reported physicians who spoke
out to Congress were put on a yacht and the aspartame manufacturers tried
to change their mind. No one disagrees they have bottomless checkbooks,
but they also intimidate, threaten and have no concern for how many perish
on their poison, and this should be prosecuted in due course by racketeering
statutes, because purely and simply, racketeering is precisely what they
do! If aspartame were safe, consider they would not have to manipulate
studies, and try to prevent any independent studies, just as Ajinomoto
is trying now to prevent any inquiries about aspartame's neurotoxicity
from two New Mexico Boards!
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- In one of the manufacturers' press releases on the new
Italian study, they commented that they thought it was criminal that the
regulatory people were not advised. In other words, what they are saying
is that they had no opportunity to change the results by purchasing the
researchers' loyalty! Dr. Blaylock said their study confirmed the previous
study by Dr. Trocho and co-workers (l998) that also found the formaldehyde
breakdown product of aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that
this damage was cumulative. Similarly, when aspartame manufacturers and
their front groups like the Calorie Control Council say the recent Italian
studies by the Ramazzini Foundation don't go along with other carcinogen
studies, they are lying; they are trying to compare the truthful new one
from Italy to ones they controlled to get the result they wanted. And
the Trocho people were intimidated terribly.
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- Please don't forget Dr. Blaylock's words in Aspartame
Makers Tell A Whopper, http://www.wnho.net/whopper:
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- "This study should terrify mothers and all those
consuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully done study
that clearly demonstrated a statistically significant increase in several
types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have
increased significantly in this country since the widespread use of aspartame."
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- He also wrote: "These studies strongly indicate
that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame everyday could
significantly increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia."
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- Clearly by statute, the Environmental Improvement Board
of New Mexico and the Board of Pharmacy have the power to conduct hearings,
examine the evidence, and if they deem appropriate, to then ban aspartame.
If they didn't exercise their powers given to them by the legislature
in statutes, they would be of no use to the people. This was corroborated
by former Special Assistant Attorney General Stevan Looney, now of the
Sutin Firm, who represented Petitioner Stephen Fox pro-bono because he
knew he was protecting the health of the citizens of New Mexico.
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- With that being said, I would like to go over the specific
arguments from the attorneys who represent the manufacturers who make this
toxin poisoning the world.
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- I. Ajinomoto's lawyer wrote that he would argue, "that
federal approval of aspartame prevents the Board from outlawing it."
That's pure poppycock. A precedent was given in the conclusion of the
EIB, after hearing extensive medical and even more extensive legal arguments.
If you examined further the FDA approval, you would see that it was illegally
approved. First of all, it's a drug, and not an additive. An additive
BY LAW requires that it be inert, the symptoms and diseases would not be
filling a 1038 page medical text, and there wouldn't be 92 documented symptoms
on the FDA report. Aspartame is about as inert as Mt. Vesuvius when it
erupts!
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- Aspartame not only failed the adulteration statutes,
but also was considered by the National Soft Drink Association to be an
adulterant; this is part of the congressional record. Interestingly, the
FDA admitted aspartame could not be heated and then gave heed to the wind
and approved it for baking. Thus, the soft drink companies WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE
sent diet pop laced with this poison to the Persian Gulf to sit in the
120 degree Arabian sun for as long as 8 weeks at a time so the troops could
ingest formaldehyde cocktails, one of the major precipitants and causes
of the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome."
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- Aspartame can precipitate MS and ALS or Lou Gehrig's.
So when the Government did a study, they found a lot of the troops had
Lou Gehrig's. What would you expect? One lady who had an aspartame brain
tumor said she was in a support group in Texas that had 70 vets, all with
brain tumors. Remember that aspartame interacts with vaccines. They didn't
have a chance. Further, the symptoms of Desert Storm Illness are identical
to the FDA's report of 92 documented symptoms. It doesn't take a rocket
scientist to recognize the truth: that the manufacturers had full knowledge
of their crime.
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- The evidence is already piled so high there is no way
the manufacturers could win on honest grounds. They left a paper trail
like their trade secret information (on www.dorway.com) explaining their
knowledge. In the last paragraph they said: "With the spoon-for-spoon,
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, whereas 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 a proven brain tumor-causing agent,
so they knew there was almost complete conversion, and a global population
would come down with brain tumors. How can the manufacturers even try to
fight? The evidence of their many crimes is detailed in numerous government
and public domain records.
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- II. "No State Law Delegation to Board." Ajinomoto's
lawyers say they will argue that the legislature has not given this Board
the authority to regulate in this area. Nonsense! They describe the Pharmacy
Board's enabling statute as an anti-fraudulent labeling law. This is correct,
but that is not all this statute is. If aspartame were labeled correctly,
the label would say: "Genocide: Keep out of reach of humans."
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- One woman's life was saved because her daughter, a med
student, happened to notice the aspartame in her lab had a skull and crossbones
on it. Realizing it was a poison she got her mother off of it and saved
her life. Up till that point, she had been away planning her funeral in
her hometown.
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- In the background of all of these considerations, there
is so much product liability involved a paper could be written on it, perhaps
a worthy future endeavor for your Civil Division, Madame Attorney General?
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- The manufacturers label aspartame diet when in fact,
it makes you gain weight. It is labeled as an additive instead of drug.
It liberates free methyl alcohol, which is against the law, and methanol
is classified as a narcotic. The chronic methanol poisoning is what affects
the dopamine system of the brain and causes the addiction as discussed
in Dr. Roberts's medical text. Can you imagine, our children being given
a narcotic and a neurodegenerative metabolite like formaldehyde in their
vitamins, aspirin, prescription drugs and food? If someone in the New Mexico
Attorney General's staff or in a private New Mexico Plaintiff's firm wanted
to investigate product liability and fraud, aspartame fits every definition
perfectly.
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- III. "The attorneys speak of the Board's Discretionary
Right to Refrain from Proceeding saying even if the Board were to conclude
it has the power, it can refrain from doing anything."
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- Perhaps they threw that in to in essence ask, "Why
be bothered?"
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- Why be bothered? To stop the people of New Mexico from
being poisoned! Ajinomoto's lawyers maintain that the Board lacks the expertise
of the FDA, which approved aspartame. In the beginning, over 16 years
from 1966 to 1981, the FDA did not approve aspartame; it declined the petition
for approval. Since no FDA Commissioner would allow it on the market for
16 years, Donald Rumsfeld, at that point President of G.D. Searle, the
aspartame patent holder, had to get Reagan to appoint an FDA Commissioner
who would over-rule the Board of Inquiry. That man was Dr. Arthur Hull
Hayes, and Reagan was so concerned he actually wrote an executive order
to make the current FDA Commissioner powerless to do anything about aspartame
until he could get Hayes there to do his deadly deed!
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- The rest of Ajinomoto's argument is more babble because
they really have nothing to say in its defense which legally viable. The
Board does not lack the resources to address the issue. The Board has
access to physicians and experts to bring them the evidence, and plenty
will testify to counter what we anticipate from the corporate "rental"
physicians, pediatricians, and toxicologists. We have most of the documents
and studies.
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- And then Ajinomoto's lawyer's foolish statement: "The
two distinct pending requests - relating to aspartame and mercury- may
not be the only ones filed. If the Board entertains these, others could
follow." So what is their point here? If there are other poisons,
they should follow. Any person of integrity would not want citizens to
be destroyed by poisons. That's why New Mexico has an Environmental Improvement
Board and a Board of Pharmacy.
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- Next, Ajinomoto's lawyer says that if the "Board
decides to proceed, it first may need to adopt rules of substance and procedure
governing this process." We agree, of course, since the lives and
health of the citizens of New Mexico are important enough to put exacting
efforts into delineating effective rules of substance and procedure.
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- If the rules of substance and procedure are seen to be
substantially spelled out and delineated in the New Mexico statutes in
the sections of the Drug Act concerning adulteration, mislabeling, and
other concerns, surely you as Governor and you as Attorney General might
accept that the Pharmacy Board with 6 pharmacists on it, can easily determine
appropriate rules of substance and procedure on its own, and not facilely
or sloppily accept the corporate- substituted procedures prepared by Ajinomoto's
lawyers.
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- Next, the Ajinomoto lawyer asks:
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- "A. Substance - What must be proven to outlaw or
permit aspartame? What level of risk of harm must be established for the
petitioner to prevail? Who has the burden of proof? Is it relevant that
aspartame has health benefits such as combating obesity?"
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- Wow! Did the manufacturers' attorneys do any research
at all? Perhaps they are making it up as they go along because they don't
know what to say? What beyond the following must be proven to outlaw aspartame?
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- 1. It's an illegal deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading
as an additive. This has already been proven with over 20 years of use,
using the public as guinea pigs, with incontrovertible and almost incalculable
neurodegenerative damage to millions.
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- 2. Level of harm? Aspartame has destroyed millions
of people; there is an Aspartame Toxicity Center recording the cases; there
are Aspartame Detoxification Centers caring for the victims in many cities;
there are many medical texts documenting the mechanism by which is disables
and kills; and finally, there are operations and citizens' groups in every
state and over 30 countries just warning the people not to use it or have
their health destroyed or even lose their life, all acting pro bono! How
could such operations even exist if aspartame were as safe as Ajinomoto
would have your naively believe?
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- Ajinomoto's lawyers ask the question about possible health
benefits of aspartame? Hogwash! There is no health benefit to consuming
poison. According to Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, aspartame actually
damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death: http://www.rense.com/general67/alert.htm
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- Further, as Dr. Blaylock says in a lecture on www.dorway.com:
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- "Understand the reactions to aspartame are not allergic
but toxic like arsenic and cyanide." If physicians can't find a health
benefit for cyanide, they certainly won't find one for aspartame.
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- B. Ajinomoto Attorneys ask: "Procedure - What
weight is given to the federal determination? Is it enough that the Board
merely disagrees with FDA, or must it find the FDA determination is 'clearly
erroneous' or the product of fraud, collusion or undue influence? Is the
entire federal record to be admitted? Are exhibits exchanged in advance?
Is expert testimony required? Who is an expert? "
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- This perhaps is a kind of corporate lawyer's fishing
expedition. All the evidence and exhibits are available. There is so
much expert testimony, physicians and scientists could give the facts continuously
for all 5 days in the July 2006 EIB hearings. How about as experts the
very physicians who have been treating aspartame victims for two decades
in the trenches of medical practice, like Dr. H.J. Roberts, Dr. Ralph Walton,
and Dr. Russell Blaylock?
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- "C. Aspartame v. Mercury - Are there to be two
different sets of rules and two different standards for aspartame, which
has affirmative federal approval and for mercury, which may not have such
approval."
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- Obviously what the Board is concerned with is evidence
they are poisons and that evidence is available. The rule change and additional
chapter to the New Mexico Administrative Code being considered by the Board
of Pharmacy is on the subject of neurotoxic additives to medications and
vaccines, the worst of which are aspartame/formaldehyde and thimerosal/mercury.
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- "V. No Need to Proceed Now."
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- They must have thrown that in because they ran out of
things to say!
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- "A. Petitioners could take their evidence to FDA.
They claim aspartame violates federal standards, notwithstanding federal
approval."
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- They really ought to know better than to say something
this stupid. Physicians and scientists have been screaming at the FDA,
giving them the proof, and filing Citizens Petitions for banning for years.
They know the FDA operates above the law and ignores this. In fact, I
filed Citizens' Petition for banning aspartame, based on the fact their
records show aspartame to be a chemical poison and that they lied to the
public, and continue to lie to the public.
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- The law requires they answer in 180 days. It will be
4 years in June! The FDA refuses to operate within the law and answer this
petition. One of the reasons is I listed the lies found within the government
records is that only way they can answer the petition and my citations
of all of the FDA and industry lies is for the FDA to honestly remove aspartame
from the market. So the FDA just ignores it. They wrote back to me they
had more important things to do!
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- "B. Some of the issues in this matter might be
resolved in the New Mexico EIB proceedings and possible related judicial
proceedings."
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- Ajinomoto's lawyer threw this in to raise the possibility
to the Board of Pharmacy that they will bring an action in state or federal
court similar to the action brought by the very same lawyer (Richard Minzner)
against the New Mexico EIB for trying to create and implement stronger
safety standards to protect workers from acts of violence in convenience
stores. This is obviously a not so subtle form of intimidation by the same
lawyer with a different client of a second New Mexico Board, the Board
of Pharmacy.
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- Yes, these issues might be and will be resolved when
aspartame is banned. The manufacturers are scared to death because when
aspartame is banned people will wake up well from all kinds of health problems
they have been suffering from. When my organization, Mission Possible
International, prepared 16,000 Killer Kola brochures on aspartame which
were given out freely from an organic market in Atlanta with the medical
evidence on this neurotoxin some years ago, thousands abstained, and about
60 days later, people came into the store exclaiming that all kinds of
health problems had disappeared. Seizures stopped; those crippled from
Multiple Sclerotic symptoms walked again; headaches disappeared; and dozens
of symptoms vanished. The manufacturers know if aspartame is banned in
New Mexico, there will emerge a kind of prima facie evidence for their
absolute complicity in these neurodegenerative problems, and, as well,
of their massive product liability.
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- Below is the letter written to the EIB Board on how aspartame
violates state and federal adulteration statutes. These violations alone
are enough to ban it from New Mexico in food products.
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- Please stand strong and don't be intimidated! You can
set a precedent for the world to follow, and thus go down in history as
having saved the lives of millions of people!
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- If you really want to see many more of the really egregious
facts in evidence, please watch the movie Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World.
Observe the interview with Diane Fleming, a Sunday school teacher whose
husband, a basketball athlete and heavy user of aspartame, died from the
methanol poisoning. They thought she poisoned him, even though she took
a lie detector test and passed, and the detective involved in the investigation
said there was no way she could have poisoned him. She was the one who
called the police. She was sentenced to 20 and 30 years concurrently and
lingers in a cold prison cell in Virginia because the manufacturers of
aspartame murdered her husband. Doctors' affidavits say Charles Fleming
died from aspartame. Yet another victim from this neurodegenerative artificial
sweetener, perhaps the cruelest story of them all!
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- Free the citizens of New Mexico from this deadly poison!
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- Respectfully,
- Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
- Founder, Mission Possible International
- 9270 River Club Parkway
- Duluth, Georgia 30097
- 770 242-2599
- www.dorway.com and
- www.wnho.net
- Aspartame Toxicity Center,
- www.holisticmed.com./aspartame
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- Dear Madam Chair, Gay Dillingham and Honorable Members
of the New Mexico
- Environmental Improvement
- Board:
- September 15, 2005
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- Clifford Stroud, Vice Chair
- Dolores Herrera
- Harold Tso
- Soren Peters
- Greg Green
- Ken Marsh
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- % Barbara Claire, EIB Administrator, New Mexico Department
of Environment
- 1190 S. St. Francis Drive
- Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502
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- I'm the founder of Mission Possible International, a
global volunteer force with operations in 50 states and over 30 countries
of the world warning all consumers off aspartame. The FDA is well known
for approving poisons but in this case they not only didn't want to approve
it but also tried to have the original manufacturer indicted for fraud.
You can read the FDA audit, the Bressler Report on www.dorway.com.
I personally spoke with Jerome Bressler as did world experts on aspartame,
H. J. Roberts, M.D., and neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. He said studies
on aspartame were so bad when it was retyped the FDA omitted the worst
20%. It is hard to imagine it is any worse than we know, but even when
Dr. H.J. Roberts asked his congressman to get the omitted part released
the FDA refused, as they are now on the side of the manufacturer. Originally,
they were heroes in trying to keep it off the market, but both U.S. Prosecutors
hired on with the defense team instead of indicting Searle and the statute
of limitations expired.
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- In the end aspartame was approved by politics rather
than science as exposed in the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned
World, <http://www.docworkers.com/>www.docworkers.com There have
been three congressional hearings trying to have it banned and several
Citizens' Petitions including my own which the FDA won't even answer, serving
above the law, because it's based on lying, and the lies are in the government
records I quote. There is no way to answer it without banning it based
on all laws that are violated with this product.
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- It violated the adulteration statute and couldn't have
been approved through legal standards which is why the necessity for politics.
How much more proof than the Trocho Study in Barcelona, which shows the
formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol accumulates in the
cells and damages DNA. In the medical text by H. J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame
Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, there is actually a page on pre-embalming.
Dr. Russell Blaylock has a lecture on www.dorway.com
in which he says the reactions from aspartame are not allergic but toxic
like arsenic and cyanide.
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- James Bowen, M.D. of Hawaii wrote this in a letter to
the FDA:
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- "This is mass poisoning of the American public and
more than 70 countries of the world. Every known metabolite of aspartame
is of marked or questionable toxicity and patent unsafe for human use.
Methyl alcohol is metabolized to nascent formaldehyde in the eye, nervous
system and other metabolically active organs. It immediately attacks and
denatures the tissue structure proteins in which it is metabolized to nascent
formaldehyde. This stimulates specific organ and subcellular autoimmunity
that seems to be a preponderant source of the bad, experiences reported
by NutraSweet victims. Aspartic acid is a neuroexcitotoxin present in
damaging amounts, in its own right, at the ADI for aspartame. Simple logic
tells one that it will vastly increase the metabolism of methyl alcohol
to formaldehyde."
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- "This corresponds well with the symptomalogies often
experienced, such as Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), bulbar palsies, neurohormonal
disorders. The diketopiperazine issue remains totally unresolved and dangerous."
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- Dr. Bowen makes the profound statement: " There
is the issue of the approval of aspartame for market, which has violated
every principle of responsible science and responsible government."
Dr. Bowen himself is a victim and has Lou Gehrig's disease.
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- I have reviewed the New Mexico statutes on adulteration
and poisonous substances. The New Mexico Food Act (25-2-1 to 25-2-19 and
25-2-20 NMSA l978) allows appropriate proceedings to be initiated in proper
courts.
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- According to the Statute text, (A-1) a food shall be
deemed to be adulterated if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious
substance which may render it injurious to health or (2) if it bears or
contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance which is unsafe
or (3) a decomposed substance or otherwise unfit for food.
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- Aspartame is probably the best example of an adulterated
and poisonous substance, and not only should be banned but also should
never have been approved. The protest of the National Soft Drink Assn
(name changed to American Beverage now) is part of the congressional record
proving aspartame violated the federal adulteration law and was illegally
added. By admission of NSDA:
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- Section 402 of 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". This is the same as the New Mexico
statute and gives your state the right to ban aspartame. The NSDA in this
protest against aspartame approval in l983 recorded this, as found in the
Congressional Record of May 7, l985, Page S 5509, Senate.
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- NSDA knew aspartame decomposes in soft drinks. They objected:
"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." S5507
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- Searle the original manufacturer went out of their way
to use the wrong type of testing because they knew it could not pass the
regulations. Inferior test methods were used by Searle as NSDA explained:
"High pressure liquid chromotography 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."
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- Aspartic acid, which is 40% of aspartame by molecular
weight, is an excitotoxin, a product that stimulates the neurons of the
brain to death (Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, neurosurgeon Russell
Blaylock, M.D.,) and was tested by renowned neuroscientist John Olney,
M.D., in l970 and found to cause lesions in the brains of mice. This is
why Dr. Olney tried to prevent approval. Searle went out of their to make
sure it was not detected as the protest admits:
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- "The inappropriateness of using TLC as a principal
analytical method is compounded by the fact that the values of aspartame
degradation products being measured are close to the limits of detection
of the method. Thus, the values purportedly obtained by the TLC method
cannot be considered to be very precise. Finally, an important decomposition
product of aspartame, aspartic acid cannot be detected at all using TLC."
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- The NSDA recorded other attempts at cover-up and said
there were at least six significant deficiencies in the analyses undertaken
to identify and quantify aspartame and DKP in soft drinks. DKP or diketopiperazine
is broken down from the entire molecule and is a brain tumor agent. They
said:
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- "The standards for use of HPLC to detect aspartame
and DKP were prepared in buffered aqueous solutions. A far better technique
would have been to prepare the standards using beverage matrices would
have reduced the danger of interfering compounds co eluting with the compound
of interest." It is also of interest that they said: "Searle
analyzed only single bottles at any given time and temperature. This aspect
of the study design fails to account for anticipated bottle-to-bottle variations.
Single bottle analytical data cannot, under any circumstances, amount
to a comprehensive and reliable characterization of the decomposition products
of an additive with a well- known instability problem."
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- This would be a good time to say a child could do better
because a child did. Twelve-year-old Jennifer Cohen decided in l997 to
find out why her grandmother almost died from aspartame. She put 7 cans
of Diet Coke in the fridge, 7 cans in her room at room temperature (about
69 degrees and 7 cans in a BOEKEL incubator and set the temperature at
104 degrees Fahrenheit and left them there for 10 weeks. Winston Laboratory
in Ridgefield, New Jersey did the testing.
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- Even the Diet Coke in the fridge had broken down to formaldehyde
and DKP. This study, which is on www.dorway.com,
was published in Food Chemical News.
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- Later, Ryan Tholen, a 5th grader in 2002, repeated this
experiment. Braun Intertec Lab in Edina, Minn. did the testing with similar
results.
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- Did Searle know what they were doing? They are experts.
The Chicago Sun Times on July 24, 2002 published an article about Triangle
Laboratories of Durham, N.C. The Company had developed RapidScreen, a
test based on high- resolution gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, proving
rapid and reasonable analysis of products submitted by food producers.
Joseph D. Morales is quoted as saying: "At some point, the weight
of the evidence is going to tip people to the side of true concern about
the quality and safety levels of the food supply."
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- Morales is former corporate controller of G. D. Searle
and former executive vice president and chief operating office of the NutraSweet
Co. As one reader commented, "I guess people change their stories,
depending on the source of the money that fills their pockets."
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- The entire protest of the NSDA can be read at: <http://www.dorway.com/nsda.html>http://www.dorway.com/nsda.html
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- In the summary of the basis for objection the NSDA said:
"The present record does not contain data which demonstrate that the
use of aspartame in soft drinks will not result in the adulteration of
the beverages under section 402 (a) (3) of the FDC Act 21 U.S.C. 342 (a)
(3) which provides that a food is adulterated if it contains, in whole
or in part "... a decomposed substance or if it is otherwise unfit
for food."
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- Indeed, the present record strongly suggests that the
rapid degradation of aspartame in soft drinks and the consequent loss of
sweetness may well result, under certain actual time and temperature conditions
in products that would be adulterated under section 402. Without data
that demonstrate that aspartame sweetened beverages will not be adulterated
under section 402 (a) (3). Searle has not met its burden of proof under
section 409 (c) (3) (B) of the FDC Act 21 USC 348 (c) (3) (B)
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