ACTUAL ASPARTAME RESEARCH AND STUDIES

By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Telephone: 770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com
Web Site: http://www.mpwhi.com



Posted: 02 August 2010


Below my signature is the Aspartame Resource Guide, mainly because I want people to read how aspartame got approved in the event that most do not know. Obviously, it wasn't approved by science. I tried to click on the links but it says "no longer available".. I would also suggest you see the documentary, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/06/sweet-misery-a-poisoned-world-you-can-finally-view-free-online.aspx

In this movie you hear James Turner, Washington, D.C. attorney explain how aspartame was basically approved through the political chicanery of Donald Rumsfeld who called in his markers and got this addictive, excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered drug and adjuvant, masquerading as an additive, on the market. In fact, here is a clip of James Turner discussing Donald Rumsfeld: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld.html After the FDA tried to have G. D. Searle indicted for fraud both U.S. Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. Still the FDA Board of Inquiry revoked the petition for approval. Here is that report: http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc Searle filed suit against the FDA the next day so that FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan could not sign it into law. Rumsfeld was on Reagan's transition team. You see he had promised Rumsfeld he would nominate him for Vice President and instead nominated Bush. So he owed Rumsfeld a favor. The day after he was elected Commissioner Goyan got a call at 3:00 AM firing him.

It takes about 30 days to get a new FDA Commissioner to office so Reagan wrote an executive order making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame until Arthur Hull Hayes got there. He then over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and aspartame was marketed. Then began the mass poisoning of the American people and 100 countries of the world by aspartame, as Dr. James Bowen told the FDA.

There is no way to take a chemical poison and have it show safety. It just can't be done - period. In this article - "Aspartame Manufacturers Tell A Whopper" notice the lies and fraud. http://www.wnho.net/whopper.htm In the last paragraph note my quote of Mark Gold on how the European Food Safety Authority would review aspartame as safe. We know them well. There were two FDA toxicologists on site that reviewed Searle's studies. Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress in l985 that aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting a carcinogen on the market. Not only did aspartame cause brain tumors and brain cancer but Dr. Gross also stated that because of the cancer FDA should not have been able to set an allowable daily intake. In l987 FDA toxicologist, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, told the Senate that all studies were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out. Furthermore, aspartame is on the market without ever been proven safe. Consider it was approved in l981 and Dr. Verrett was testifying in l987.Therefore, you have to consider that aspartame is on the market without ever having been proven safe. G. D. Searle was found doing such things as excising brain tumors on the rats and then putting them back in the study. When they died they resurrected them on paper. They filtered out neoplasms and just a comedy of errors.

Finally, world renowned Dr. John Olney, neuroscientist finally had had enough and insisted that Searle do studies in his laboratory so he could oversee them. They did, and showed what Dr. Olney expected - brain damage. Therefore, Dr. Olney knew aspartame could never be approved but what he didn't know was that Searle never gave the report of those studies to the FDA as discussed in Sweet Misery.

Some years ago I called Jerome Bressler after he retired from the FDA and thanked him for his honesty in getting the facts out in the "Bressler Report". http://www.rense.com/general88/hid.htm He told me the report I had was incomplete, and that two very important studies were removed by FDA and even the signature of Dr. Collins. A couple of years ago I even visited Mr. Bressler in a nursing home with Lane Shore, Mission Possible Chicago who had found him. He was very adamant that we find these studies which had even been denied by Freedom of Information. We eventually did find them with thanks to Dr. Madelon Price who found them in Dr. Olney's records and returned them to the Bressler Report in the above report. Just recently there was a study on 60 thousand women which showed aspartame could jump premature births up to 78%. http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_jumps_premature_births.htm These two studies under FDA seal for 30 years are teratology studies, and there is no warning that aspartame causes birth defects. The Bressler Report is very important and if those studies had not been removed it would have helped more physicians to find the truth. Remember that fetal tissue does not tolerate methanol, and there are other issues for birth defects like the 50% phenylalanine.

You can read the entire congressional hearings if you like on http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf

Now the company had to answer those complaints so they did studies to show it wouldn't cause seizures. Now you can read how the studies are fixed. We'll be kind and call them flawed.

These studies were funded by Monsanto regarding aspartame and seizures: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html

Take the Rowan Study. Note they gave 16 of the 18 subjects anti-seizure medication and didn't let anyone know. They were so afraid it would cause a seizure they had to take some precautions. This is a one capsule, one day study, sort of tantamount to smelling the bottle. Drum roll please - are you ready for this - they got it peer reviewed! I kid you not. Physicians complain about getting aspartame information in peer reviewed journals, the reason many of them have the information published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors. Yes, indeed, these manufacturers have lots of power.

Now we have the methanol issue, severe metabolic poison, free and unbound. In nature methanol is bound to pectin and always has ethanol which is the classic antidote to methanol toxicity. (Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, by Dr. Woodrow Monte).

Here's how they do it! Scientific Abuse in Methanol and Formaldehyde Research: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html

Parkinson's Disease is also a big issue with aspartame, so again here's how Monsanto gets away with it: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/parkinson.html

So let's discuss scientific peer reviewed studies and research. Would it be nice to just read a stack of scientific peer reviewed studies so you would know one way or the other whether a drug was safe or not. It's not that easy because of fraud in science. Now we're talking about the flacks. A flack is a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer. I sometimes call the ladies of the evening. Some people for money will say anything is safe. Even though its now widely know that aspartame is an abortifacient and causes birth defects and mental retardation there are flacks and front groups like Calorie Control who even with full knowledge push aspartame on pregnant women. Here is a good example where Dr. Russell Blaylock answered one of the flacks by writing the Miami Herald: http://www.wnho.net/mh_aspartame_letter.htm This is what has to be done just to save the babies.

The professional organizations who take money from industry to defend this poison ought to be put out of business. Those responsible to solve the problem are the problem. One lady said she used Diet Coke through three pregnancies and has three autistic children. Perhaps if some of these flacks had to care for some autistic children they might think before saying a chemical poison is a safe additive. In 2004 the American Diabetic Association had suit filed against them for racketeering because they had been told and told and told how deadly aspartame is to the diabetic. However, you can't take money from industry while explaining their drug is a poison. So they take the money and sacrifice the people. Dr. H. J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and author of the 1000 page medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, http://www.sunsentpress.com was a member for 35 years. They even refused to publish an abstract of aspartame diabetic reactors. It was later published in 'Clinical Research. Yes, the America Diabetes Assn got out of the suit, and they are back still telling diabetics aspartame is safe. The American Dietetics Assn are often called Monsanto's media flacks. I could write a book about them. In reality, aspartame is responsible for the diabetic epidemic. It not only can precipitate diabetes but aggravates and simulates diabetic retinopathy, and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes diabetics to go into convulsions, and even interacts with insulin. The free methyl alcohol causes them to lose limbs. Aspartame is a diabetic killer!

Finally honest researchers, independent and unbiased, decide to do studies on aspartame like Dr. Diana Dow Edwards. Monsanto agreed to fund her study but withdrew funds when she began finding adverse effects. Then Dr. Ralph Walton decided to do studies. Monsanto refused to sell him the aspartame. After one subject, the administrator of the hospital, had a retinal detachment and lost the vision in that eye, one subject had congenital bleeding, and patients started complaining of being poisoned, the institution stopped the study. Remember what I said, it's impossible to do a study on a chemical poison and show safety.

It is the modus operandi, that when word leaks out on aspartame's toxicity immediately there comes a review. It's their way of saying, look, don't be concerned we just did a review and everything is fine. I lectured for the World Environmental Conference in 1995. Dr. Gaylord of the EPA said, "We have an epidemic of MS and lupus and can't identify the toxin." I answered, "I'm Betty Martini with Mission Possible International and I'm here to lecture on MS and lupus and identify the toxin as aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Canderel, etc.) Later when I was on a neurology list I kept explaining that MS was epidemic because of aspartame. Finally, I wrote a long report talking about lecturing at this Conference. It was put on web http://www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html In 1999 someone by the name of Nancy Markle put her name on my post and disorganized it, and it was sent around the globe making world news. The dietitians went into overkill defending Monsanto in newspapers all over the country. The MS Society put out a statement that had absolutely nothing to do with truth or reality. The physician who wrote the propaganda for the MS Society finally admitted to Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center that he hadn't researched aspartame. Then the FDA announced a review, and everybody could put their mind at ease, it showed aspartame to be safe. The report was full of lies.

In the meantime, victims of aspartame disease the world over abstained when they read my post. MS victims walked out of wheelchairs, some blinded by the methanol in aspartame had their vision return, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue disappeared. Cori Brackett, an Aspartame MS victim was diagnosed with MS with one of the largest lesions seen in an MS patient. She could barely talk or walk. Off aspartame she walked out of her wheelchair and 8 months later her lesion all but disappeared. Cori, co-founder of Sound and Fury Productions was concerned about other victims of aspartame and went on to produce Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, http://www.soundandfury.tv

I spent a couple of years answering the phone day and night, even from people whose language I couldn't understand as victim after victim abstained from aspartame and got well. Finally I set up operations of Mission Possible in more than 40 nations, helping to sound the alert. Many victims were disabled from aspartame to such an extent, that when the symptoms disappeared as they abstained, they literally wept. Meanwhile the shills actually tried to change the minds of the victims that aspartame was safe as rain.

In 1996, Sixty Minutes did an expose on aspartame when Dr. John Olney made world news on the aspartame brain tumor issue. Dr. Walton explained that independent studies proved aspartame's toxicity, and the studies that said it was safe were all manufacturer controlled or funded. He agreed to do the research for 60 Minutes on scientific peer reviewed studies and funding. Here is that report: http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html You will note that 92% of independent, scientific peer reviewed studies showed the problems. In fact, Dr. Walton says if you eliminate 6 studies because the FDA was involved and one pro-aspartame summary, 100% of independent studies showed the problems. So what does that say for manufacturer funded studies that showed safety. It all goes back to my statement, you can't do a study on a poison and show safety.

There is a book titled "Toxic Sludge is Good For You" by John Stauber that explains the modus operandi of industry and PR. It explains they call names and other behavior, because they can't debate the issue. When I lectured in the UK Monsanto was asked to debate me. They refused. They didn't have a chance and knew it because I have the records. When Dr. Maria Alemany did the Trocho Study which showed that the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalmed living tissue and damaged DNA, the NutraSweet Company tried to assassinate his character. I flew to Barcelona and spoke with this courageous researcher and the first thing he said to me was "Betty, aspartame will kill 200 million people." Because of the neurodegenerative diseases it triggers, cancers, etc. and the fact that it's an abortifacient, I understand. The manufacturer used Tephly to try and rebut his study, but finally Tephly confessed he used the wrong test.

It was known from the very beginning that aspartame causes cancer and finally in 2005, Dr. Morando Soffritti, did a study proving aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. Two years later there was another study showing it only takes a small amount of aspartame, and furthermore if a pregnant woman uses it and the baby survives the child can grow up to cancer.

DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI is the lead researcher on these two groundbreaking long-term aspartame studies..He was recently honored at New Yorks Mt Sinai School of Medicine with the Irving J Selikoff Award For his outstanding contributions to the identification of environmental and industrial carcinogens and his promotion of independent scientific research Reviewing his two impeccable aspartame studies Dr. Soffritti explains:

The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/per sex/per group) In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000, 2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous death. The results show that APM causes a statistically significant, dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves in males. These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg of body weight in the EU).

The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats (70-95/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100, 20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the 12th day of fetal life until natural death. The results of the second study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated. For the first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential carcinogenicity.

We wondered how the aspartame manufacturers would rebut these. They are peer reviewed by 7 world experts. I know Dr. Soffritti must have gotten a big laugh when EFSA came back with the fact the rats had inflammatory disease. After all, inflammatory disease is the dying process. Here is that report: http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_efsa.htm Finally Dr. Herman Koeter with EFSA admitted "they were pressured by industry to hijack science". He then left EFSA.

Then came the announcement a big ten year study has been done to prove aspartame safety. trying to discredit the flawless Ramazzini work. Actually it was a multifood form sent out by AARP that mentioned aspartame once in 56 questions. Mother Goose! They wanted to know if they remembered what they ate last year. I'm not sure I remember what I ate last week. Furthermore, it was only mentioned in one question so how would they know if they consumed aspartame because they didn't ask. I call it the oatmeal-brownie study. They did ask about these, strawberries and whether the subject had a hysterectomy. Do read the report - NCI and NIH Halt the Spin on Bogus Aspartame Studyhttp://www.wnho.net/halt_the_spin_on_bogus_studies.htm

I imagine this is the research you refer to where the link has been removed. Meanwhile, EFSA is doing a review and the news is getting out everywhere on the deadly effects of aspartame. Time for Ajinomoto to get another review. Here comes Bernadine Magnuson - http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/burdock A manufacturer scientific review. Here comes the flacks!

I lectured in New Zealand after an actress, Abby Cormack, became very ill on aspartame gum. Abby told her story over and over again in the media. Others identified with her who had the very same symptoms and didn't know why. They abstained and got well. In fact, the profits went down so Coke sent Bernadine to try and talk people into going back on the addictive poison. She really disgraced herself. Here is the report I wrote. http://www.wnho.net/bernadene_magnuson_aspartame_flack.htm

Meantime other studies by independent scientists have continued to show the problems aspartame cause. Three were done in Greece. It never ends - over and over and over and over again unbiased independent studies show aspartame toxicity. No intelligent person could look at this background and these studies done, and not come to the decision that aspartame is a deadly poison.

The Cancer Prevention Coalition, Dr. Samiuel Epstein has said that aspartame should be banned. 12 toxicologists wrote the FDA that aspartame should be banned. http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf My Citizens Petition has remained ignored for 7 years. Obviously, the FDA doesn't know how to answer it, but the law requires they answer it in 180 days. The petition based on an imminent health hazard I filed in 2007 is required by law to be answered in a week or ten days It's been two years. Dr. Ken Stoller has also written a Citizens Petition for ban, and it has not been answered either. It's been about a year.

Ajinomoto must have been thinking "what to do, what to do". Perhaps they knew their days were numbered as people all over the world find out about this history of fraud and deception. So, Ajinomoto announced they were changing the name of aspartame to AminoSweet. Extremely deceptive since its the methanol and not the amino acids that sweeten the potion, Be warned!

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
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Aspartame Toxicity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame


Aspartame Resource Guide

Aspartame medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, http://www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D., over 1000 pages He also has other books on aspartame and just published "A Manifesto for American Medicine"

Dr. Leonard Coldwell's Detox Formula: http://www.mpwhi.com/resources-coldwell.htm His new book is "The Only Answer to Cancer".

Detox formula: "What To Do If You Have Used Aspartame" by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., http://www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm Dr. Blaylock is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, http://www.russellblaylockmd.com He has an excellent CD titled: "The Truth About Aspartame", http://www.atavistik.com All info is on http://www.mpwhi.com/blaylock_wellness_center.htm

Aspartame documentary: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, http://www.soundandfury.tv

Aspartame Information List, you can subscribe on http://www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners.

How to get aspartame out of your state: http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_24_feb_2009.html

Safe Sweetener: Just Like Sugar, http://www.justlikesugarinc.com Can be found in places like Whole Foods. Made of chicory and orange peel, Calcium and Vitamin C. Chicory has been used for 70 years to improve the health of diabetics. Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote in his newsletter, The Blaylock Wellness Report, http://www.russellblaylockmd.com "Finally a safe sweetener".

Aspartame information for distribution: The Artificially Sweetened Times, 24 page booklets on aspartame, http://www.idaho-observer.com

The Lethal Science of Splenda: http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm

Studies have shown that sucralose can:

Particular warning to diabetics: Researchers found that diabetic patients using sucralose showed a statistically significant increase in glycosylated hemoglobin, a marker that is used to assess glycemic control in diabetic patients. According to the FDA, "increases in glycosolation in hemoglobin imply lessening of control of diabetes."

Ajinomoto just announced a new name for aspartame called AminoSweet. Be warned.

Web sites: http://www.mpwhi.com, http://www.dorway.com, and http://www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center: http://www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D.

When FDA Commissioner Dr. Von Eschenbach took office I wrote him about aspartame and cancer, mainly due to his professed intention to save cancer victims; so much of this has already been done. http://www.mpwhi.com/project_recall_aspartame.htm Later 12 toxicologists asked the FDA to ban aspartame because of the long term Ramazzini studies on large rat populations showing aspartame is "a multipotential carcinogen". http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf

Now I'll go back to the beginning.

Aspartame was not approved by science but thru the political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld. D.C. Attorney James Turner, explains how Rumsfeld did it in the documentary Sweet Misery, a Poisoned World. Here's a clip from the movie so you can hear what he said: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

Searle's problem was they couldn't get studies to show safety. For example, in the Bressler Report: http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_news.htm You read where they would excise brain tumors from the rats, put them back in the study and after they died resurrected them back on paper. They even filtered out neoplasms to hide them from the FDA. Repeatedly Searle was caught in this criminal activity.

On January 10, 1977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill recommended to the Justice Department Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 331 (e), and the False Reports to the Government Act, 18 U.S.C. 1001, for "their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act, 21 U.S.C 355 (i) and making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of aspartame." The FDA called special attention to studies investigating the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters.

Searle was caught dead to rights, so they hired Skinner, made him a deal he couldn't refuse. So the former Justice Department prosecutor became a defender. Next at bat as U. S. Prosecutor was William Conlon, who promptly switched sides too. By then the statute of limitations had expired. Searle knew they couldn't win the case so they simply hired the prosecutors. The Godfather hired the District Attorneys!

Nevertheless the FDA had no intention of approving aspartame. The fraud was so great that Dr. John Olney (who with James Turner fought against approval of aspartame) told Searle to do studies in his lab so he could see that they were done honestly, with supervision. Dr. Olney believed the FDA wouldn't approve aspartame because the studies showed it produced brain damaged. What he didn't anticipate is that Searle didn't submit these findings to the FDA.

January 30, 1980 the Public Board of Inquiry revoked Searle's petition for approval declaring that they had "not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive." Searle had spent $17 million on an aspartame factory and had no intention of giving up, poison or no. At this point they hired Donald Rumsfeld who said he would call in his markers and get it approved anyway. What were those markers? President Reagan had told Rumsfeld he would be nominated for vice president, but instead selected Bush number 1.

The day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as the new FDA Commissioner, to over-rule the Board of Inquiry. Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to the FDA , so he wrote an Executive Order making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame. At 3 AM that night a member of Reagan's staff called the FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan and fired him. Here is a letter from his wife who was there when the terminating call came in: http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_about_jere_goyan.pdf

Once aspartame was on the market there was outrage as consumers were diagnosed with seizures, multiple sclerosis and blindness from the free methyl alcohol releases. Senator Orrin Hatch, on Monsanto's payroll, obstructed hearings on aspartame for years, but there were 3 Congressional hearings from 1985 to l987. Hatch was on Monsanto's payroll, and kept the bill in committee that would put a moratorium on aspartame until NIH completed independent studies on the flood of aspartame problems they were seeing: seizures, blindness, headaches, sexual dysfunction, behavioral problems, especially in children, drug interactions and birth defects.

About that time Dr. James Bowen wrote FDA that "aspartame is mass poisoning of the American public and 70 countries" - today over 100. http://www.dorway.com/drbowen.txt The good doctor wrote: "For this reason, I am opposed to labeling aspartame content of food and drinks. To do so would imply that the government is taking some sort of responsible action....when the only responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame off the market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the marketplace."

How was the new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hayes, rewarded for over-ruling the Board of Inquiry? He was hired as a consultant to NutraSweet's PR Agency on a 10-year contract at $1,000.00 a day, and nobody's heard a peep from him since, he got lockjaw. Who ever heard of a PR guy who won't talk?

Now they began funding professional organizations ladies-of-the-evening like the American Diabetes Assn, American Dietetic Assn and numerous others to propagandize the public with touting asparshame. Of course they also threatened scientists whose studies identified the toxicity of this poison. In the UPI Investigation Dr. Wurtman was threatened if he did studies on aspartame and seizures he would lose his funding. He capitulated. Read this report on the 8 month investigation by United Press International: http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf Dr. Wurtman, too, got a terrible case of aspartame lockjaw, but MIT still gets the money.

ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute, was born in 1978 as a "research" front for our favorite poisoners. It's board members are from Coke, Pepsi, Searle, Monsanto and the rest of the usual suspects. If a university won't play their way the get no pay, that is to say, funding for fake "research".

Over the years many independent studies have been done. The manufacturers say 200 studies that aspartame is safe as rain. Some of those were the ones FDA found fraudulent and sought prosecution for, and others were simply bought and paid for quack studies from rubber duck labs.

Consider seizure studies by Monsanto, they bought Searle in l985: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html Seizures are listed 5 times on the FDA report of 92 symptoms that range from male sexual dysfunction to death: http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf People are having so many seizures and going blind on aspartame that the Community Nutrition Institute filed a petition to ban aspartame in l986. Again the manufacturers put in the fix to prevent it from being banned. They were so worried someone would have a seizure they actually gave people anti-seizure medication in the Rowan study.'

Another impeccable "study" involved one-day consumption of, believe it or not: a single capsule of aspartame. Tantamount to smelling the bottle. The got it peer reviewed with their power. So when consumers complain of seizures they say "we did studies and aspartame doesn't cause seizures".

I smoked a Lucky once and I'm fine, so nicotine doesn't cause cancer!

They have all bases covered. Today front groups like Calorie Control Council, with full knowledge that aspartame causes birth defects and mental retardation actually push the poison: http://www.wnho.net/mh_aspartame_letter.htm

When 60 Minutes did a story about aspartame and brain tumors the manufactures claimed to have all these studies showing safety. Dr. Ralph Walton who was on the show decided to research who funded the "studies": http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html Note that 92% of independent peer-reviewed studies show problems aspartame causes, while those funded or controlled by industry all say it's safe. If you eliminate 6 studies the FDA, aspartame's branch office in Washington, messed with, and one pro-aspartame sponsored summary, 100% of independent scientific peer reviewed studies show aspartame problems.

As Dr. Bowen said: this is mass poisoning of the world. Aspartame destroys the brain, the optic nerve, the immune system and central nervous system. It devastates every organ of the body. Epidemic obesity, diabetes, sexual dysfunction, retinopathy and neuropathy, optic nerve destruction, convulsions and insulin reactions, MS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, IQ depreciation and dozens of other afflictions have been inflicted upon us by this deadly neurotoxic carcinogenic "sweetener".

According to the prestigious Ecologist, aspartame was listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress. http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf

Studies show the horrific damage done to the body. For instance, the Trocho Study shows the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol actually embalms tissue and damages DNA. http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf

Here are summaries of the two aspartame studies, Ramazzini, that showed aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen, passed down through the mother:

DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI, lead researcher on two groundbreaking long-term aspartame studies. He was recently honored at New York's Mt Sinai School of Medicine with the Irving J Selikoff Award For his outstanding contributions to the identification of environmental and industrial carcinogens and his promotion of independent scientific research. Reviewing his two impeccable aspartame studies. Dr. Soffritti explains:

The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/per sex/per group) In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000, 2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous death. The results show that APM causes a statistically significant, dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves in males. These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg of body weight in the EU).

The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats (70-95/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100, 20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the 12th day of fetal life until natural death. The results of the second study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated. For the first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential carcinogenicity.

Over six years ago I petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame. The FDA has 180 days to answer it. They refuse, obviously because I'm using their own words, and they don't know how to get around the fact that everything is a matter of record. If it wasn't so criminal one would have to laugh at their propaganda - the idea that someone might even consider believing them. For instance, they will tell you there is just a small amount of methanol, and there is more in oranges. What they don't say is that in oranges that it is accompanied by ethanol which is the classic antidote for methanol toxicity and takes it out of your body safely. Here is a peer reviewed journal article about it. http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_methanol_and_public_health.pdf Methanol also binds to pectin. In aspartame there is no ethanol. Here is their basic propaganda answered with references: http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=606

A detox formula for aspartame victims endorsed by Dr. Russell Blaylock, Neurosurgeon: http://www.wnho.net.wtdaspartame.htm Available are his excellent books and a CD: "The Truth About Aspartame"

There are efforts now in states and countries to rid the planet of aspartame. It is genetically engineered. The manufacturers are get people in high places addicted. When I testified to the Senate in New Mexico, half the senators were sipping Diet Coke. Presidents Clinton and Bush were addicted. Methanol is classified as a narcotic, it causes chronic methanol poisoning. This effects the dopamine system of the brain producing addiction.

I've lectured in other countries and I can tell you people are sick and dying the world over on this poison. It would be great to see it banned from California. First of all its illegally on the market because it violates the Delaney Amendment. Here are comments from an FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, to Congress on 8/1/85:

Dr. Gross testified that 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?"

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross asked, "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 SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

Here is my letter to the Assembly Committee on Health which exposes the fact that it's adulterated: http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_a_n_kim_california_ach.htm The adulteration means it violates interstate commerce laws.

Consumer power is winning the war against this toxin. Holland Sweetener, the largest European aspartame producer closed in 2006. Another European maker also quit. In Japan Tosh stopped making it as well. Merisant, in the USA went bankrupt for $230,000,000 in January, 2009. 47 members of Parliament signed for a ban in the UK. There is continuing effort to get banned in the Philippines. Romania banned it in the early 90's because it's carcinogenic. And now the European Food Safety Authority is doing a review.

Today no drug is safe if the consumer is using aspartame because of the interaction due to damage to the mitochondria. It's used in hospitals because of the dietitians making patients even sicker.

The Nutratanic hit the iceberg and Coke & Pepsi are in the lifeboats with new sweeteners in the works. Japan's Ajinomoto and the USA NutraSweet Co are still slapping around in the frigid waters of consumer condemnation. http://www.wnho.net/recipe_for_death.htm

If I can provide further data I'll gladly do so. There is no way to show safety on aspartame with honest, unbiased studies. Eliminate industry studies to defend its product and you'll see how deadly is this toxin. Dr. Bill Deagle said its more deadly than depleted uranium because its ubiquitous in our food.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
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Aspartame Toxicity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame