- Dallas -- The International Alliance of Dietary
Supplement-Food Associations [IADSA] vote at a Codex Committee on Food
Additives meeting in Beijing last week, puts at risk the future well-being
of every infant, child and adult on our planet, with their endorsement
of artificial sweeteners aspartame and neotame.
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- IADSA is the voice of the worldwide dietary supplement
manufacturing industry and an accredited international non-governmental
organization (INGO) with a seat at the table of the main international
regulatory bodies. IADSA has more than doubled in size since its
creation in 1998, and now represents 58 national trade associations
and over 9,500 member companies.
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- The vote to retain toxic food additives such as: aspartame;
neotame and all the other substances that masquerade as 'safe and
natural,' by an international non-governmental organization, is a
chilling defeat for all who lobby tirelessly for a pure, safe, unadulterated
food supply, say leaders of Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, a
consumer awareness group based in the United States.
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- Incredibly, in the IADSA news release dated May 7, 2007,
it is stated that aspartame's recommended allowance [RDA] has been
increased 110 times that of the FDA's recommended daily allowance
of 50 mg/kg. Even more incredible, is the fact that the FDA's original
RDA for aspartame should have been only 20 mg/kg. By political maneuvering,
the RDA was arbitrarily elevated to 50 mg/kg. Neotame, which is touted
as being 13,000 times sweeter than sugar has been set at 90 mg/kg.
What is the IASDA's scientific justification behind the decision
to override the original RDA's by such a huge amount?
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- Indisputable evidence mounts with each passing new study
that aspartame [and its recent namesake, Neotame] breaks down into
methanol, formaldehyde and diketopiperazine, which can cause the
following forms of cancers: brain cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic
cancer, uterine cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and death. The aspartame
molecule consists of: phenylalanine, which caused seizures in lab
animals; aspartic acid, which caused holes in the brains of lab animals
and methanol [10% by weight.] The Neotame molecule has all those
plus the addition of [3]- dimethylbutyl, found on the Environmental
Protection Agency's list of most hazardous chemicals in 1998. What
gives the IADSA the right to ignore all the independent studies showing
harm, when all the data point to erring on the side of caution with
these genetically-modified molecules?
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- The additives will now be put forward to the Codex Alimentarius
Commission for adoption in July. The Codex General Standard for Food
Additives (GSFA) sets down conditions for permitted food additives to
be used in all foods. It is regularly updated to include additional
food additive provisions adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
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- The public can and must stop pollution of the world's
food supply by a few manufacturers of chemical food additives like
aspartame and neotame. We can write, call, fax, email our government
policy makers and let them know this is not a policy we can accept.
If this is done by consumers all over the world, governing bodies
might act more responsibly. Change can come when each of us does
our part to make it happen.
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- IADSA's action to retain additives yields positive results
2007/05/07 - International Alliance of Dietary Supplement-Food Associations
(IADSA)
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- Efforts to retain nine additives at IADSA's proposed
levels in the Codex General Standard for Food Additives list bore
fruit last week, with all being recommended for adoption.
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- Castor Oil, Polysorbates, Polyvinyl Alcohol, Acesulfame
Potassium, Aspartame, Cyclamates, Neotame, Saccharin, Sucralose were
endorsed at levels proposed by the International Alliance of Dietary/Food
Supplement Associations (IADSA) during the Codex Committee on Food
Additives meeting in Beijing last week.
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- The recommendation comes as a victory for IADSA members
following two years of compiling technical information to support
the need for these additives at certain levels, and after actively
distributing its results among governments for consideration. In
previous Codex discussions some of the additives had teetered dangerously
close to deletion while others were being considered at lower levels.
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- "Due to IADSA's submissions from information provided
by our members, as well as active participation and dialogue with
governments, these additives and various others used in food supplements
are now being considered for their final adoption at levels currently
used by the industry we represent," said David Pineda, IADSA's
Director of Regulatory Affairs.
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- The additives will now be put forward to the Codex Alimentarius
Commission for adoption in July. The Codex General Standard for Food
Additives (GSFA) sets down conditions for permitted food additives to
be used in all foods. It is regularly updated to include additional
food additive provisions adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
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- IADSA's proposed levels for the additives are: Castor
Oil (1,000 mg/kg), Polysorbates (25,000 mg/kg), Polyvinyl Alcohol
(45,000 mg/kg), Acesulfame Potassium (2,000 mg/kg), Aspartame (5,500
mg/kg), Cyclamates (1,250 mg/kg), Neotame (90 mg/kg), Saccharin (1,200
mg/kg), and Sucralose (2,400 mg/kg). An additional 13 additives including
the sweetener aspartame-acesulfame salt and colours are due to be
considered for inclusion next year.
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- Last year IADSA managed to prevent the deletion of four
additives (Iron oxides, Castor oil, Chlorophylls/copper complexes
and Erythrosine) at meetings of both the Codex Additives Committee
and the Codex Commission, and successfully raised the levels of an
additional three BHA, BHT and Carnauba wax.
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- ENDS
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- IADSA is the: voice of the worldwide dietary supplement
manufacturing industry and an accredited international non-governmental
organization (INGO) with a seat at the table of the main international
regulatory bodies. IADSA has more than doubled in size since its
creation in 1998, and now represents 58 national trade associations
and over 9,500 member companies. For more information contact David
Pineda Ereño, IADSA Manager, Regulatory Affairs, 50 Rue de
l'Association, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, email <mailto:davidpineda@iadsa.be>davidpineda@iadsa.be
or visit <http://www.iadsa.org/>www.iadsa.org ###
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- Independent studies within the past decade, show aspartame
is not a safe food additive: Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili
J, Remesar X, Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M Formaldehyde derived from dietary
aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Life Sci 1998 Jun 26; 63(5):
337-49. Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia,
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
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- In Vivo. 2007 Jan-Feb;21(1):89-92. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17354619&query_hl=2&i
tool=pubmed_DocSum
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- The effect of aspartame administration on oncogene and
suppressor gene expressions. Gombos K, Varjas T, Orsos Z, Polyak
E, Peredi J, Varga Z, Nowrasteh G, Tettinger A, Mucsi G, Ember I.
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Public Health University
of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary. BACKGROUND: Aspartame (L-phenylalanineN-L-alpha-aspartyl-1-methyl
ester) is an artificial sweetener withwidespread applications. Previously
published results have shown thatamong rats receiving aspartame a
significant increase oflymphoreticular neoplasms, brain tumours and
transitional cell tumoursoccurred. The aim of our short-term experiment
was to investigate thebiological effect of aspartame consumption
by determining theexpressions of key oncogenes and a tumour suppressor
gene.
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- MATERIALS AND METHODS: After one week per os administration
of various doses ofaspartame to CBA/CA female mice, p53, c-myc, Ha-ras
gene expression alterations were determined in individual organs.
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- RESULTS: The results showed an increase in gene expressions
concerning all the investigatedgenes especially in organs with a
high proliferation rate:lymphoreticular organs, bone-marrow and kidney.
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- CONCLUSION: Aspartame has a biological effect even at
the recommended daily maximum dose.
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- About the Founder of Aspartame Consumer Safety Network:
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- http://www.aspartamesafety.com/
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- Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder
- Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline
- [Promoting FDA Recall of Aspartame - since 1987]
- P.O. Box 2001 - Frisco, TX 75034 - U.S.
- phone: 1-214-387-4001
- email: marystod@airmail.net
- http://www.aspartamesafety.com
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