- Bills to ban Neurotoxic Carcinogenic Artificial Sweetener
Aspartame Advance in New Mexico Legislature, the bills that will precipitate
a new era of Consumer Protection in the USA!
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- The Honorable Irvin Harrison introduced House Bill 202,
and the Senate version, as yet unnumbered, was introduced by the Honorable
Gerald Ortiz y Pino
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- Albuquerque Democrat, Ortiz y Pino, and Gallup Navajo
Democrat, Irvin Harrison, have introduced legislation that clearly moves
New Mexico forward in terms of protecting citizens' health from this neurodegenerative
sweetener, resulting from the complete breakdown in sound approval functions
at the US FDA going back to 1981 and 1983, no more clearly exemplified
than in the case artificial sweetener, Aspartame.
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- Regulatory mechanisms at the state level have largely
failed, been postponed and even ignored, due to corporate pressure and
manipulation, largely by Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest Aspartame
and Monosodium Glutamate manufacturers. The eventual and inevitable New
Mexico ban through legislative means is a vital national and international
precedent, one that could precipitate a new era of consumer protection
in the United States and in other nations.
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- I believe that these bills are within the conceptual
matrix not only of Governor Richardson's Year of the Child and Healthy
Kids legislative initiatives, but also they are consistent within a deeper
philosophical context of the Governor's views that because the FDA "isn't
doing anything," every state needs to take back and to exercise some
of the power ceded earlier to the Federal level, going back to the creation
of the Food and Drug Administration in the Roosevelt era.
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- State statutes on protecting Health, and statutes regarding
poisonous and deleterious food additives in the New Mexico Food Act are
completely consistent with the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
as well as numerous US Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals decisions
in related matters. Many U.S. Court of Appeals decisions confirm that in
health matters, federal and state jurisdictions need not be competitive
or exclusionary, since the goal of both is to protect health.
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- Soft drink companies would be smarter not to fight efforts
to achieve freedom from neurotoxic multipotentially carcinogenic sweetener
additives, and just immediately switch to a non-toxic harmless natural
sweetener like Stevia. Indeed, conversations between Coca Cola's lobbyist
and Vice President of New Mexico operations and me occurred January 17,
in which I recommended precisely such a course of action to the CEO, President,
and Chairman of the Board of Coca Cola, relayed by the lobbyist to them.
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- We could (but won't) write the predictable Coca Cola
advertisement: "America, we have been listening to your concerns for
health, and for those reasons, we are switching the sweetener in our "diet"
products to Stevia, starting in 2006." By doing so, Coca Cola (or
whichever manufacturer implements this bright idea first) would make billions
of dollars and win millions of new Patrons.
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- This evolving possibility and inevitability of soft drink
companies to get rid of aspartame, acesulfame K, and sucralose by the world's
largest soft drink manufacturers, of course, does nothing to remove, obviate
or conceal some other forgotten neurotoxicities in that product, like that
of Coke's major ingredient, phosphoric acid, which is also used to prime
unfinished steel before it is painted. New Mexicans might wonder "What
does phosphoric acid due to one's chromosomes, if it can do that to raw
steel?"
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- Hoping to hide behind their product's FDA approval, industry
lobbyists and corporate lawyers will bitterly complain to legislative committees
that any state action to ban an incontrovertibly proven neurotoxic multipotential
carcinogen like aspartame is automatically preempted by the Supremacy Clause
and the Interstate Commerce Clause in the Constitution. They would like
us to believe that such action is therefore impossible, and this argument,
accompanied by non-credible threats of litigation, worked in 2005 to postpone
the EIB's scheduled 5-day hearings on Aspartame in July 2006 until January
2007. Such considerations are incorporated in the Legislative intent sections
of the two bills.
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- Corporate lobbyists are already working against these
bills, even having contacted numerous members of the NM Senate to ask them
to not sign the bill as co-sponsors! We expect these same corporate minions
to bring fat stacks of legal arguments to committee members similar to
those already submitted to Mr. Trigg, Chief of Administrative Division
in the Attorney General's office, by one of several lawyers working for
the world's largest Aspartame and Monosodium Glutamate manufacturer, Ajinomoto
of Japan, with the hope of overwhelming and intimidating committee members,
as they have so far successfully done in many other states.
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- However, those corporate theories will be soundly refuted
by more compelling stacks of medical commentaries by leading physicians,
and of legal arguments by, for example, Jim Turner of the Washington D.C.
law firm of Swankin and Turner, the consumer lawyer whose efforts precipitated
President Nixon's 1969 order to the Commissioner of the FDA to rescind
the approval for CYCLAMATES, yet another neurotoxic carcinogenic artificial
sweetener. Turner is co-author of The Chemical Feast (1970).
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- For Molecular Biologist Professor at University of Chicago's
comments on aspartame: http://www.wnho.net/molecular_biologists_aspartame_commentary.htm
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- Lobbyists will fight this legislation right up to the
ink drying as (we hope) they are signed by Governor Richardson. For much
more detailed information on corporate efforts to ruin pro child health
and nutrition legislation that cites specific examples of what lobbyists
have done and where and when, revealing their vicious tactics in toto,
please read the extraordinary compilations thereof by Hastings College
of Health Policy Law Professor Michele Simon, for example:
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- http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/coke.cfm and
- http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/coke.cfm
- http://www.wnho.net/consumer_protection_advocates.htm
- http://www.wnho.net/megacorporate_interests.htm\
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- Some of Coca Cola's actions have resulted in their products
being banned by Universities in New York and in Michigan: http://www.killercoke.org/crimes.htm
For the very best analysis on how aspartame violates both federal and state
statutes on adulteration, by Dr. Betty Martini, Honorary Doctor of Humanities,
please go to: http://www.rense.com/general67/aspar.htm
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- For more information on the Ramazzini Foundation for
Oncology study proving carcinogenicity, go to the website for the United
States National Institute of Health, where it has been posted since mid-November
2005, with seemingly little comprehension of this in any branch of government.
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- Other key documents are located at the extensive website
for the World Natural Health Organization, www.wnho.net, click on aspartame.
Particularly noteworthy are the medical texts and commentaries by H.J.Roberts,
M.D., Author of Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, as well as his
article, Aspartame Disease: An FDA Approved Epidemic.
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- If you have ingested aspartame in "diet" beverages,
"sugarless" gum, blue packet of Equal, "low fat" yogurt,
and at least 6000 other food products, or in hundreds of pharmaceutical
preparations, vitamins, aspirin, and if you want to begin the long process
of detoxifying, at the www.wnho.net site, please read Neurosurgeon Russell
Blaylock's article "What to do if you have used Aspartame." Blaylock
is also author of Excitotoxins: the Taste that Kills.
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- To learn more of the Governor's thinking on these matters,
please contact
- Billy Sparks, Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications,
at
- billy.sparks@state.nm.us.
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- To learn about possible Congressional action regarding
the FDA rescinding
- its approval of Aspartame, not only in food but also
in hundreds of
- pharmaceutical preparations for children and for adults,
please contact:
- U.S. Congressman Tom Udall, (202) 225-6190
- U.S. Congressman Lane Evans, Chairman of House Veterans
Committee
- Voice - (202) 225-5905
- lane.evans@mail.house.gov
- U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman Toll-free (in NM): 1-800-443-8658
DC:
- (202) 224-5521 senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov
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- The New Mexico Senate version of the bill to ban aspartame
will be filed today; for more information or to obtain the bill number,
please contact the Senate Clerk at (505) 986-4714.
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- [We owe Senator Ortiz y Pino and Representative Irvin
Harrison a tremendous debt of gratitude for their insights and courage.
Irvin was the sponsor of last year's Nutrition Council bill in the House,
as House Bill 721, which was also President Pro Tem Senator Ben Altamirano's
Senate Bill 525.]
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- USE THIS ENTIRE SEARCH TERM
- to read the identical text in both House and Senate versions
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- http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/_session.asp?
- chamber=H&type=++&number=202&Submit=Search&year=06
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- Media Inquiries: Senator: Gerald Ortiz y Pino District:
12
- County(s): Bernalillo
- Capitol Office Phone: 986-4380
- email: jortizyp@aol.com
- Representative: Irvin Harrison
- District: 5
- County(s): McKinley & San Juan
- Capitol Office Phone: 986-4464
- email: irv4u@cnetco.com
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- Stephen Fox
- stephen@santafefineart.com
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- To keep up-to-date with what is going on in New Mexico
you can join the aspartame information list on www.wnho.net front page
banner, click on aspartame for other recent reports. Also check out www.dorway.com
on aspartame.
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- Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder,
- Mission Possible International
- 9270 River Club Parkway
- Duluth, Georgia 30097
- 770 242-2599
- www.wnho.net
- www.dorway.com
- Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
- See how aspartame was approved, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned
World, www.docworkers.com
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