- Release date: 2005-12-14
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- (Newswire Today) Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005-12-14
- Aspartame Battle in NM shifts from Boards to Attorney General's Opinion
on how an FDA approved product and neurotoxic food and medicine additive
can be challenged despite industry claims of federal preemption.
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- Both the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy and the Environmental
Improvement Board have petitions before them to amend the Administrative
Code with a new chapter which bans neurotoxic additives, to medications
and to foods.
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- There are over 6000 food products with aspartame and
over 500 medications, primarily children's meds and vitamins, which contain
aspartame, even though everyone knows that it turns to Formaldehyde (among
other toxic metabolites).
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- The world's largest Aspartame manufacturer, Ajinomoto
(also the world's largest MSG manufacturer) has hired the Rodey Firm and
a Washington D.C. law firm FDA specialist to hammer these two boards into
silence and to force them to abandon any future hearings on aspartame,
primarily riding on the absurd legal logic that because aspartame was approved
by the FDA, any state level challenge would therefore be preempted by the
Federal approval.
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- The Ajinomoto/Rodey lawyer in so many words told the
Pharmacy Board on November 14 that they didn't have the expertise nor the
manpower to read, let alone to comprehend the FDA's one to ten million
pages proving that aspartame was safe, even though 6 out of 9 of them are
pharmacists, and that the reason the petitioners, myself and Santa Fe Pediatrician
Ken Stoller, came to them instead of the FDA with this petition, is that
we thought they "must be easier to push around."
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- In fact, the FDA has ignored all of the petitions to
ban aspartame, and a meaningful preemption for aspartame is impossible,
given the political channels used to get its approval in 1981, and for
soft drinks, over the objections of the National Soft Drink Association,
in 1983. I believe that the FDA's approval processes for food additives
are so corrupt and manipulated by corporate mendacity and phony research,
that the states' regulatory processes are the only possible salvation for
health in America.
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- Under pressure from Ajinomoto/Rodey and a bit less pressure
from the Montgomery and Andrews firm, retained by industry front group,
the Calorie Control Council, both boards have asked Attorney General Patricia
Madrid for a formal Attorney General's Opinion as to whether this Federal-preemption-due-to-FDA-approval
crumbling mythologies will prevent any action by the two boards.
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- The co-petitioners and other consumer advocates who recognize
the importance of this Attorney General's Opinion are hopeful that with
her generally strong stands for New Mexico states' rights over the past
7 years, as well as the clear authority for these boards explicitly delineated
in several NM statutes to examine such questions, that her Opinion will
be a landmark one for consumer protection efforts in every state.
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- Rather than wait till such opinion is delivered, however,
I encourage the reader to write to the Honorable Patricia Madrid, and to
her Deputy, the Honorable Stuart Bluestone, the Bataan Building, Santa
Fe, New Mexico 87501, and make your views known. You can contact them directly
at (505) 827-6000 and (505) 827-6004, and you can email them as well. You
can also discuss this urgent medical need with your legislators and encourage
them to support the creation of a powerful new New Mexico Nutrition Council,
described in Senator Altamirano's Senate Bill 525 from 2005, which you
can read on the NM Legislature website. Altamirano is the President Pro
Tempore of the New Mexico Senate.
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- Governor Bill Richardson's views on this are clear: he
supports the EIB's decision to move forward with aspartame hearings, because
"the Federal government has not done enough to warn people about the
dangers of aspartame," he stated on October 5 to the Albuquerque Journal.
Richardson can be reached at 505 827-3000; Press Sec. is Billy Sparks.
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- For more information, please go to the website for the
World Natural Health Organization, wnho.net, and for the Aspartame Toxicity
Information Center, in Concord, New Hampshire. Please closely examine the
articles by H.J.Roberts, M.D., author of Aspartame Disease: an Ignored
Epidemic, and by Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Exicitoxins:
the Taste that Kills.
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- The Aspartame/formaldehyde and the Thimerosal/mercury
in vaccines are tied to together in these considerations before the two
New Mexico Boards, because they are both proven neurotoxins with deadly
neurodegenerative effects, and this is the subject of the additional chapter
for the Administrative Code. Such additions are the concerns of the Boards
and Commissions. The statutes delineating the entire authority to implement
these permanent bans are cited in detail at www.wnho.net, click on aspartame.
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- It is very clear that a great deal depends on the Attorney
General's Opinion as a formal legal document, because if states are powerless
to question any FDA approved product, then the corporate plutocracy/kleptocracy
and "toxic idiocracy" which has dumped all of these neurotoxic
additives and carcinogens into the American diet and American pharmacology
win the right to keep doing so, to the extreme detriment of the health
of every American.
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- The international implications are clear also, since
these same corporations like Ajinomoto and many American companies use
their products FDA approval to push approval through in hundreds of other
nations in the world, by saying: "The FDA has the most stringent approval
processes in the world."
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- Clearly, this is an absurd and flawed bit of logic, and
once it is dispensed with and these crumbling mythologies are discarded
forever, everyone's health can improve, particularly that of the children
in New Mexico, in the United States, and all over the world.
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- The aspartame corporate dominoes are beginning to fall,
starting in New Mexico, through the relevant regulatory bodies of the state,
and this consumer protection effort could take place in every state in
the United States, depending on the statutes of each state, and the energy
advocates are willing to devote to this vital and long overdue effort.
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- Stephen Fox
- New Millennium Fine Art
- stephen[...]santafefineart.com
- 505 983-2002
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- Agency/Source: New Mexico Nutrition Council
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- Related Link: http://wnho.net
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- Note from Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible
Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097:, 770 242-2599 :
For those who want to help please write the Attorney General today at the
address above. Remember if we can get aspartame out of New Mexico we can
get it off the planet. Help set a precedent for the world to follow.
This is very very important. If you're a victim explain what it has done
to your life. Give the Attorney General encouragement. If you want to
keep up with stay what is going on you can subscribe to the Aspartame
Information List on www.wnho.net You can also get information on aspartame
from http://www.dorway.com and the Aspartame Toxicity Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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- The Aspartame documentary is Sweet Misery: A Poisoned
World, www.docworkers.com Show it everywhere. You can get 24 page booklets
on asparstame for distribution called the Artificially Sweetened Times
from the Idaho Observer, www.idaho-observer.com The new ones have information
on New Mexico.
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