- I'm pleased to announce that Senator David Y. Ige, Chairman
of Senate Health Committee, has scheduled the Senate bill to ban aspartame.
It will be heard Monday, February 25th. For those who can testify it
will be heard in Room 16 at 1:15 P.M. According to Jade Bruhjell who has
been behind getting these bills introduced they are very interested in
those who appear but written testimony can be emailed to testimony@capital.hawaii.gov
Senator Ige's office number is 808 586 6230 if you wish to check for further
details.
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- The Hawaii HOUSE Health bill to ban aspartame was deferred:
http://www.mpwhi.com/hhhb_2680_political_paralysis.htm This is an
entirely different bill still giving us the ability to get this neurotoxin
removed from the public food supply.
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- Aspartame can precipitate diabetes, interacts with insulin,
can mimic and precipitate MS, trigger psychiatric and behavioral problems,
trigger lupus and male sexual dysfunction, cause brain tumors and other
cancers, birth defects, mental retardation, interacts with drugs and vaccines
and a list of other horrors discussed in the medical texts, Aspartame
Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.sunsentpress.com
and Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock,
M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com
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- The Senate Health Committee will be given DVDs of 'Sweet Misery:
A Poisoned World' www.soundandfury.tv so they can hear the testimony of
world experts. (I highly recommend this extraordinary documentary
- Jeff)
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- Aspartame remains illegal because its adulterated and
violates the Delaney Amendment which forbids adding anything that can cause
cancer. Two prestigious studies by the Ramazzini Institute released in
2005 and 2007, peer reviewed by 7 world experts, have proven beyond any
shadow of a doubt aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen even in small
amounts and can be passed on to the offspring. Brain tumors were noted
in original studies and FDA toxicologist Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress
that not only does aspartame violate the Delaney Amendment but FDA should
not have been able to set an allowable dose. Aspartame also violates Interstate
Commerce laws because you can't ship an adulterated product for sale.
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- I want to thank all those who called to ask that this
bill be scheduled to be heard in these last minutes, even from other countries,
and especially the tireless efforts of Stephen Fox (Mission Possible New
Mexico).
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- Below are members of the Senate House Committee and their
information, as well as the bill to ban aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal, etc.)
from the beautiful Hawaiian Islands, our 50th State.
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- Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
- Mission Possible International
- 9270 River Club Parkway
- Duluth, Georgia 30097
- 770 242-2599
- www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and www.wnho.net
- Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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- bettym19@mindspring.com
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- _____________________________________________________________
- David Y. Ige Chairman of Senate Health Committee
- 16th Senatorial District
- Hawaii State Capitol, Room 215
- 415 South Beretania Street
- Honolulu, HI 96813
- phone 808-586-6230; fax 808-586-6231
- E-mail <mailto:sendige@Capitol.hawaii.gov>sendige@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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- Carol Fukunaga, Senator, Vice Chair
- 11th Senatorial District
- Hawaii State Capitol, Room 216
- 415 South Beretania Street
- Honolulu, HI 96813
- phone 808-586-6890; fax 808-586-6899
- e-mail: <mailto:senfukunaga@Capitol.hawaii.gov>senfukunaga@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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- _____________________________
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- Rosalyn H. Baker
- 5th Senatorial District
- Hawaii State Capitol, Room 210
- 415 South Beretania Street
- Honolulu, HI 96813
- phone 808-586-6070; fax 808-586-6071
- >From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66070
- e-mail <mailto:senbaker@Capitol.hawaii.gov>senbaker@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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- Ron Menor
- 17th Senatorial District
- Hawaii State Capitol, Room 208
- 415 South Beretania Street
- Honolulu, HI 96813
- phone 808-586-6740; fax 808-586-6829
- e-mail <mailto:senmenor@Capitol.hawaii.gov>senmenor@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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- Paul Whalen
- 3rd Senatorial District
- Hawaii State Capitol, Room 223
- 415 South Beretania Street
- Honolulu, HI 96813
- phone 808-586-9385; fax 808-586-9391
- >From the Big Island,
- toll free 974-4000 + 69385
- e-mail <mailto:senwhalen@Capitol.hawaii.gov>senwhalen@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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- Report Title:
- Artificial Sweetener; Aspartame; Ban; Food
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- Description:
- Bans the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame in
food products.
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- THE SENATE
- S.B. NO.
- 2506
- TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
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- STATE OF HAWAII
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- A BILL FOR AN ACT
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- relating to food.
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- BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
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- SECTION 1. The legislature finds it is imperative
for the public health, safety and welfare to declare that aspartame and
its derivative compounds, in all of their trade names, are poisonous and
deleterious food additives due to their neurotoxic and carcinogenic metabolites.
- The legislature finds that federal authorities have
not intended to or expressed an intention to occupy and preempt areas of
concern regarding the prohibition of toxic, neurotoxic, carcinogenic, poisonous
or deleterious food additives, and therefore the legislature may prohibit
the sale of products containing aspartame and its derivative compounds
in order to protect and ensure the public health, safety and welfare.
- SECTION 2. Section 328-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and
to read as follows:
- ""Aspartame" means the artificial
sweetener with the technical name L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester."
- SECTION 3. Section 328-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
amended to read as follows:
- "§328-6 Prohibited acts. The following
acts and the causing thereof within the State by any person are prohibited:
- (1) The manufacture, sale, delivery, holding, or
offering for sale of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated
or misbranded;
- (2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food,
drug, device, or cosmetic;
- (3) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug,
device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery
or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise;
- (4) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale,
or offering for sale of any article in violation of section 328-11, 328-12,
or 328-17;
- (5) The dissemination of any false advertisement;
- (6) The refusal to permit entry or inspection,
or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by sections 328-22 and
328-23 to 328-27, or to permit access to or copying of any record as authorized
by section 328-23;
- (7) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking which
guaranty or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty
or undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and
address of the person residing in the State from whom the person received
in good faith the food, drug, device, or cosmetic;
- (8) The removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed
article in violation of sections 328-25 to 328-27;
- (9) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration,
or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of
any other act with respect to a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if the
act is done while the article is held for sale and results in the article
being adulterated or misbranded;
- (10) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely
representing, or without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label,
or other identification device authorized or required by rules adopted
under this part or regulations adopted under the Federal Act;
- (11) The use, on the labeling of any drug or in
any advertisement relating to the drug, of any representation or suggestion
that an application with respect to the drug is effective under section
328-17, or that the drug complies with that section;
- (12) The use by any person to the person's own advantage,
or revealing other than to the department of health or to the courts when
relevant in any judicial proceeding under this part, any information acquired
under authority of section 328-11, 328-12, 328-17, or 328-23, concerning
any method or process which as a trade secret is entitled to protection;
- (13) In the case of a prescription drug distributed
or offered for sale in this State, the failure of the manufacturer, packer,
or distributor thereof to maintain for transmittal, or to transmit, to
any practitioner who makes written request for information as to the drug,
true and correct copies of all printed matter which is required to be included
in any package in which that drug is distributed or sold, or such other
printed matter as is approved under the Federal Act. Nothing in this paragraph
shall be construed to exempt any person from any labeling requirement imposed
by or under other provisions of this part;
- (14) (A) Placing or causing to be placed upon any
drug or device or container thereof, with intent to defraud, the trade
name or other identifying mark, or imprint of another or any likeness of
any of the foregoing; or
- (B) Selling, dispensing, disposing of, or causing
to be sold, dispensed, or disposed of, or concealing or keeping in possession,
control, or custody, with intent to sell, dispense, or dispose of, any
drug, device, or any container thereof, with knowledge that the trade name
or other identifying mark or imprint of another or any likeness of any
of the foregoing has been placed thereon in a manner prohibited by subparagraph
(A); or
- (C) Making, selling, disposing of, or causing
to be made, sold, or disposed of, or keeping in possession, control, or
custody, or concealing, with intent to defraud, any punch, die, plate,
or other thing designed to print, imprint, or reproduce that trade name
or other identifying mark or imprint of another or any likeness of any
of the foregoing upon any drug, device, or container thereof;
- (15) Except as provided in part VI and section 461-1,
dispensing or causing to be dispensed a different drug or brand of drug
in place of the drug or brand of drug ordered or prescribed without express
permission in each case of the person ordering or prescribing;
- (16) The distribution in commerce of a consumer
commodity as defined in this part, if such commodity is contained in a
package, or if there is affixed to that commodity a label, which does not
conform to this part and of rules adopted under authority of this part;
provided that this prohibition shall not apply to persons engaged in business
as wholesale or retail distributors of consumer commodities except to the
extent that such persons:
- (A) Are engaged in the packaging or labeling
of such commodities; or
- (B) Prescribe or specify by any means the manner
in which such commodities are packaged or labeled;
- (17) The selling or dispensing in restaurants, soda
fountains, drive-ins, lunch wagons, or similar public eating establishments
of imitation milk and imitation milk products in place of fresh milk and
fresh milk products respectively; of liquid or dry products which simulate
cream but do not comply with content requirements for cream in place of
cream; of non-dairy frozen desserts which do not comply with content requirements
for dairy frozen desserts in place of dairy frozen desserts; and of any
other imitation food or one made in semblance of a genuine food in place
of such genuine food, unless the consumer is notified by either proper
labeling or conspicuous posted signs or conspicuous notices on menu cards
and advertisements informing of such substitution, to include but not limited
to the substitution of imitation milk in milk shake and malted milk drinks;
- (18) Wilfully and falsely representing or using
any devices, substances, methods, or treatment as effective in the diagnosis,
cure, mitigation, treatment, or alleviation of cancer. This paragraph
shall not apply to any person who depends exclusively upon prayer for healing
in accordance with teachings of a bona fide religious sect, denomination,
or organization, nor to a person who practices such teachings;
- (19) The selling or offering for sale at any food
facility which serves or sells over the counter directly to the consumer
an unlabeled or unpackaged food that is a confectionery which contains
alcohol in excess of one-half of one per cent by weight unless the consumer
is notified of that fact by either proper labeling or conspicuous posted
signs or conspicuous notices on menu cards and advertisements;
- (20) The sale to a person below the age of twenty-one
years of any food which is a confectionery which contains alcohol in excess
of one-half of one per cent by weight[.];
- (21) After December 31, 2008, the manufacture, sale
or delivery or holding or offering for sale of any food containing any
amount of aspartame and its derivative compounds in any of their trade
names."
- SECTION 4. This section shall not apply to the
sale, delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any food product containing
aspartame prior to January 1, 2009.
- SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
- SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
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- INTRODUCED BY:
- _____________________________
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