- The Hawaii Senate Resolution will ask the FDA Commissioner
to rescind Aspartame's approval; the House Resolution will form a kind
of task force to report back to the legislature before the 2009 session.
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- This Hawaii Senate Resolution is the strongest legislative
document ever put forth regarding Aspartame...
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- Hawaii Senate Resolution on Aspartame by Senator
Chun Oakland,
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- House Resolution by Rep. Josh Green, M.D.
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- Text of Senate Resolution
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- There is now a Hawaii Senate Resolution (entire text
follows below) which requests the Department of Health and National Academy
of Sciences to review existing reports and studies related to aspartame,
by funding source. It resolves that given the enormous amount of evidence
that has been compiled concerning the neurodegenerative harm it can cause,
that the US Food and Drug Administration is requested to rescind approval
of aspartame immediately on a phase-out basis over six months to one year.
This resolution is carried by Hawaii Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland. "We
are very pleased to note that this is the strongest legislative document
concerning aspartame ever presented anywhere in the world," according
to legislative activist Stephen Fox of New Mexico, who helped to write
the Resolution, in conjunction with Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible
International.
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- On March 12, another resolution, HCR132, introduced by
Rep Josh Green, M.D., Chairman of the House Committee on Health, was approved
by its first committee (Health) and moves on to the next (Consumer Protection
and Commerce). This would set up a work group to explore the need to ban
or improve labeling containing aspartame. It was again opposed by Dr. Chiyome
Fukino, M.D., Director of the Health Department, an appointee of Republican
Governor Linda Lingle, who opposed the House Bill to ban aspartame on the
flawed basis of an Ajinomoto-funded review study; Ajinomoto is the world's
largest manufacturer of Aspartame, and another proven neurotoxic food additive,
Monosodium Glutamate. Betty Martini, D. Hum, sent Dr. Fukino a detailed
rebuttal to this study, showing the links to Ajinomoto, and flawed industry
research. Dr. Fukino's opposition today, March 12, was opposed by Rep.
Green, M.D., the only physician in the entire Hawaii Legislature, in view
of him having "deferred" a prior bill to ban aspartame outright,
by statute. This was a pleasant surprise.
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- Here is the rebuttal to the Ajinomoto Study, written
by Mark Gold, Founder, Aspartame Toxicity Information Center, New Hampshire:
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/burdock/>http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/burdock/.
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- This flawed Ajinomoto-funded report, which has been touted
far and wide by aspartame manufacturers and corporate hacks and lobbyists,
shows how far the world's largest aspartame manufacturer will go to deceive
the public.
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- However, today, there is no doubt that Ajinomoto's Board
of Directors as well as the Board of Directors of Coca Cola, Pepsi, Wrigley's
Gum, and Merisant (manufacturer of Equal) extremely worried about these
late-breaking developments in Hawaii, which should also encourage consumer
protection activists all over the world to contact their legislators and
parliamentarians, asking them to introduce similar legislation and Resolutions.
We cordially thank Senator Chun Oakland and Representative Josh Green,
M.D., for advancing our consumer protection initiative as far as they have.
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- For more information, please contact Senator Suzanne
Chun Oakland at 808-586- 6130; fax 808-586-6131 e-mail <mailto:senchunoakland@Capitol.hawaii.gov>senchunoakland@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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- Representative Josh Green, M.D. 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605 <mailto:repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov>repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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- Text of Senate Resolution
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- Requesting the Department of Health and the National
Academy of Sciences to review existing reports and studies related to Aspartame,
and Requesting the United States Food and Drug Administration to Rescind
Approval for United States Markets, carried by Hawaii Senator Suzanne Chun
Oakland
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- Whereas, aspartame was originally developed as a drug
to treat peptic ulcers; and Whereas, manufacturers state that aspartame
is made up of forty per cent aspartic acid, fifty percent phenylalanine,
and ten per cent methanol; and
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- Whereas, aspartic acid is a nonessential amino acid that
is used by the body to initiate apoptosis or cell death in aging cells,
and that excess aspartic acid from aspartame consumption causes apoptosis
in health cells that can destroy healthy tissue, especially in the brain;
and
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- Whereas, phenylalanine is an essential amino acid found
naturally in protein but when isolated becomes neurotoxic, lowers the seizure
threshold, depletes serotonin triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems,
and interacts with depressants and other drugs; and
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- Whereas, methanol is a severe metabolic poison classified
as a narcotic that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, and can embalm
living tissue and damage DNA; and
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- Whereas, aspartame metabolites include formaldehyde,
a "class A" carcinogen, diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent,
and formic acid, and
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- Whereas, in 1974, the United States Food and Drug Administration
approved aspartame as an artificial sweetener, but asked its manufacturer
Searle to hold back from selling it on the market until further tests could
be made with regards to its safety; and
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- Whereas, scientific data revealed that there was a problem
with aspartame safety date and the United States Food and Drug Administration
withdrew its approval; and
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- Whereas, in 1975, the United States Food and Drug Administration
initiated an investigation into Searle's laboratory practices and discovered
fraud in scientific experiments as well as manipulated data giving favorable
results proving aspartame to be safe; and
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- Whereas, the results of this investigation are included
in what is called "The Bressler Report" by Jerome Bressler; and
Whereas, in 1980, Dr. John Olney submitted scientific data to a United
States Food and Drug Administration Public Board of Inquiry showing that
aspartic acid, the excitotoxic ingredient in aspartame, caused holes in
the brains of mice; and
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- Whereas, Dr. John Olney stated that it warranted special
emphasis that excitotoxins act by an acute but silent mechanism, requiring
only a single exposure for CVO neurons to be quietly destroyed, that clearly
Searle failed to establish the safety of their product, aspartame, for
use in children's food, and that all age comparative data support the following
conclusions: (1) orally administered excitotoxins destroy CVO neurons at
any age; (2) immature animals are most vulnerable; and (3) the toxic threshold
increases only gradually between birth and adulthood; and
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- Whereas, in 1980, the Public Board of Inquiry unanimously
voted against aspartame approval, but was overruled by a new United States
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, against
the advice of Food and Drug Administration scientific personnel and advisers;
and Whereas, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved aspartame
use in sodas, despite the fact that the National Soft Drink Association
argued vehemently against aspartame in these quotes from their protest:
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- (1) "The present record does not contain date which
demonstrate that the use of APM in soft drinks will not result in the adulteration
of the beverages under Section 402(a)(3) of the FDC Act 21 U.S.S. 342 (a)(3),
which provides that a food is adulterated if it contains, in whole or in
part, "a decomposed substance or it is otherwise unfit for food");
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- (2) "An important decomposition product of aspartame,
aspartic acid, cannot be detected at all using TLC";
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- (3)"G.D. Searle and Company has not demonstrated
to a reasonable certainty that the use of aspartame in soft drinks, without
quantitative limitations, will not adversely affect human health as a result
of the changes such use is likely to cause in brain chemistry and under
certain reasonably anticipated conditions of use"; and
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- (4) "Specifically, Searle has not met its burdens
under section 409.to demonstrate that aspartame is safe and functional
for use in soft drinks. Collectively, the extensive deficiencies in the
stability studies conducted by Searle to demonstrate that aspartame and
its degradation products are safe in soft drinks intended to be sold in
the United States, render those studies inadequate and unreliable."
Senate Congressional Record, May 7, 1985, S5507- 5511: and
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- Whereas, the United States Food and Drug Administration
has compiled a list of ninety-two symptoms attributed to aspartame consumption
including four types of seizures, coma, and death; and
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- Whereas, the Ramazzini Studies by the European Foundation
for Oncology in Italy conducted exhaustive studies over three years with
thousands of rats, and proved aspartame to be multipotential carcinogen,
thus confirming the United States Food and Drug Administration's original
findings; and
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- Whereas, the United States Food and Drug Administration
admitted that aspartame caused cancer over two decades ago when the Administration's
toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one of Searle's
studies "has established beyond any reasonable doubt that aspartame
is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and that this
predisposition of it is of extremely high significance.In view of these
indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter
that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask:
What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this
food additive the so-called Delaney amendment to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
act?
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- Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame, how
would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame
as constituting an allowable daily intake or "safe" level of
it? Is that position in effect not equivalent to setting a 'tolerance'
for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA
itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of
the public?" Congressional Record, August 1, 1985, SID835: 131: and
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- Whereas , aspartame is linked to sudden death, multiple
sclerosis, lupus, and many neurodegenerative diseases, as cited in may
medical texts, most notably: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by
H.J. Roberts, M.D., and Excitotoxins: the Taste that Kills, By Russell
Blaylock, M.D., and
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- Whereas, on November 3, 1987, Dr. Louis Elsas told Congress:
"I am a pediatrician, a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory and Have
spent twenty-five years in the biomedical sciences, trying to prevent mental
retardation and birth defect caused by excess phenylalanine,and therein
lies my basic concern, that aspartame is in fact a well known neurotoxin
and teratogen which, in some as yet undefined dose, will irreversibly in
the developing child or fetal brain, produce adverse effects:' and
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- Whereas, there are tens of thousands of case histories
and anecdotal accounts from victims of aspartame poisoning who have come
forward to make their case histories known; now, therefore,
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- BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-Fourth Legislature
of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2008, the House of Representatives
concurring, that the Department of Health is requested to create, within
their existing budget, an evidentiary repository accessible to the public
for patients and physicians to submit of the next year their cases involving
victims of aspartame poisoning; and
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- BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Health is
requested to report to the Legislature on the status of the evidentiary
repository during periodic interim meetings with the Chairs of the Hawaii
State Senate Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Housing,
the House of Representatives Committees on Health and Human Services and
Housing, and the state Attorney General; and
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- BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health
is requested to review all existing reports, studies, experiments, and
related literature on aspartame, including clinical studies, differentiating
each study by its funding source, and submit a report to the Legislature
no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2008 Regular Session;
and
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- BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Nation Academy of Sciences
is requested to review all existing reports, studies, experiments, and
related literature on aspartame, including clinical studies, differentiating
each study by its funding source, and that, if funding is required to undertake
this extended evaluation, that the appropriate funding be sought from various
foundations and from Congress; and
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- BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that given the enormous amount
of evidence that has been compiled concerning the neurodegenerative harm
it can cause, that the United States Food and Drug Administration is requested
to rescind approval of aspartame immediately on a phase-out basis over
six months to one year; and
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- BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
Resolution be transmitted to the members of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation,
the Commissioner of the Untied States Food and Drug Administration, the
Executive Director of the National Academy of Sciences, the Director of
Health, the Director of Human Services, the Attorney General, and the Director
of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
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