ASPARTAME IN THE NEWS 2011





The articles posted for previous years have been archived and links are provided to them, by year, at the bottom of this page.


31 Dec 2011 - 7 'Healthy' Foods That Are Making You Fat

27 Dec 2011 - Aspartame In French [Updated]

27 Dec 2011 - Aspartame En Français [Updated]

20 Dec 2011 - To Save Your Health Say So Long To Soft Drinks

12 Dec 2011 - 8 Dangers Of Diet Soda

12 Dec 2011 - See What Ants Do To Aspartame: Using Aspartame For Ant & Cockroach Poison

12 Dec 2011 - Artificial Sweetener Disease; A New Breed Of Sickness

09 Dec 2011 - Report To Parliament: EFSA Cheats About Aspartame

07 Dec 2011 - Why Is This Soda's Evil Twin?

05 Dec 2011 - Corporate European Observatory - 15 June 2011 - Exposed: Conflicts Of Interest Among EFSA's Experts On Food Additives [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

05 Dec 2011 - Toxic Chemicals In Food? : How Harmful Substances Sneak Into What You Eat

02 Dec 2011 - Will the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Blindly Accept Aspartame Manufacturer (Monsanto/Ajinomoto) Research? [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

25 Nov 2011 - Pepsi Shareholders Demand Company Stop Using Aborted Fetal Cell Lines In Flavor Research [I have no words for this disgusting evil! Except, "glad I don't drink any of their products!" We need to "BOYCOTT PEPSI," over this, & put them out of business. I couldn't believe it, but here it is! - Dr. Betty Martini, D. Hum.]

25 Nov 2011 - Study: Children Drink Same Amount Of Soda Regardless Of Whether Or Not It Is Available At School

23 Nov 2011 - Response To The Article "Call To French Minister To Caution Women About Aspartame During Pregnancy"

22 Nov 2011 - Are Diet Sodas Harming Your Health? : The Truth Behind Low-Calorie Drinks

22 Nov 2011 - Call To French Minister To Caution Women About Aspartame Intake During Pregnancy

22 Nov 2011 - Dangers Of Aspartame

21 Nov 2011 - Drinking This "Popular Poison" Is Worse Than Smoking

10 Nov 2011 - Artifiical Sweeteners May Lead To Inflammatory Bowel Disease: It Can Destroy Your Immune System And Is Like Eating An Insecticide

09 Nov 2011 - Lasting Weight Loss Comes From Health And Nutrition Not 'Diet Drinks' Or 'Diet Foods'

26 Oct 2011 - Soda-Drinking Teens More Violent - Study: Teens Who Consumed More Than Five Cans Of Soda Per Day Were More Aggressive; Carried Guns, Knives

19 Oct 2011 - Splenda Essentials Revealed As Chemical Sweetener Containing Chlorine Atoms

14 Oct 2011 - Seize The Day: 'Food 'N Health 'N Hope' (The Monsanto Song) - Live In Santa Barbara [Monanto is the company responsible for such things as Agent Orange (which they said was 100% safe, artificial sweeteners (which they said were 100% safe) and genetically modified plants and organizations (which they claim are 100% safe). Is it just me or is there a pattern there?] [YouTube video]

14 Oct 2011 - This Makes You Flabby - And Virtually Forces You To Overeat [Has embedded videos on the web page]

12 Oct 2011 - Searle Laboratories - April 1977 To August 1977 - Early Aspartame Studies [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

12 Oct 2011 - Early Aspartame Study Proved Cancers - Call For Data #2

12 Oct 2011 - EFSA Call For Data: #3

10 Oct 2011 - Methanol Institute, Not A Medical Body, Trade Association

10 Oct 2011 - 3 Foods That Can Trigger A Stroke

10 Oct 2011 - The 4 Best, And 3 Worst, Sweeteners To Have In Your Kitchen

07 Oct 2011 - US Government Accounting Office - Reports Issued In July 1987 [Note page 21, where are all these planned studies?] [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

05 Oct 2011 - New Aspartame Distribution Tie Up For UK Focused On Security Of Supply [More and more people getting cancer from aspartame all over the world, horrible neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, obesity, birth defects, infertility, male sexual dysfunction, etc. They must be stopped - Dr. B. Martini, D.Hum.]

05 Oct 2011 - Aspartame Review: EFSA's False Data On Aspartame Comes From The Manufacturers

29 Sep 2011 - Aspartame Peer Review Studies

28 Sep 2011 - Aspartame - Call For Data Independent Scientific Peer Reviewed Research

28 Sep 2011 - Aspartame-Induced Thrombocytopenia [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

26 Sep 2011 - Question To FDA: Who Has Died On Vitamins?

26 Sep 2011 - Recent Independent Aspartame Research Results & News (1998 - 2007)

23 Sep 2011 - Autism Aspartame Consumption Chart

23 Sep 2011 - Questions Over The European Food Safety Authority: The Reputation Of The European Food Safety Authority Has Been Sullied Ahead Of A Key Investigation Into The Food Sweetener Aspartame

23 Sep 2011 - Food Additives NGOs Dismiss EFSA Defence Of Its Scientific Independence: NGOs Have Dismissed The Strident Defence Of The EU Food Safety Agency Regarding The Independence Of Its Panel Looking At Food Additives Such As Aspartame

23 Sep 2011 - Survey Of Aspartame Studies: Correlation Of Outcome And Funding Sources

23 Sep 2011 - Sucralose Found In Drinking Water Supply Of More Than 28 Million Americans

22 Sep 2011 - EFSA Boss: "We Were Pressured By Industry To Hijack Science"

20 Sep 2011 - Avoiding Artificial Sweeteners? This Study Will Surprise You

19 Sep 2011 - Diet Soda Even Worse Than Those Sugary Coffee Drinks

13 Sep 2011 - Did You Check The Neurotoxin In Your 'Soft' Drink Today?

13 Sep 2011 - The 4 Best, And 3 Worst, Sweeteners To Have In Your Kitchen

12 Sep 2011 - Fluoride Aspartame And Agenda 21 [YouTube video]

09 Sep 2011 - Scientists The Aspartame Industry Hired To Prove Its Safety - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology - 2002 - Aspartame: Review Of Safety [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

09 Sep 2011 - Aspartame Studies: Includes Industry And Independent

09 Sep 2011 - Military Admits Gulf War Illness Is From Aspartame

09 Sep 2011 - Bangladesh: Ensuring The Safety Of Edibles [Aspartame certainly is known around the world as poison! - Dr. B. Martini, D.Hum.]

09 Sep 2011 - Remarks By Elmer 3. Staats, Comptroller General Of The United States At The Conference On The Federal Regulation Of Environmental Carcinogens) Center For Continuing Education (Washington, D .C ) - April 12, 1977 [GAO report on cancer, also mentions aspartame] [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

09 Sep 2011 - Report Of The Comptroller General Of The United States - 1976 - Regulation Of The Food Additive Aspartame [17 pages from the Comptroller's report that had been restricted and hidden from the public] [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

09 Sep 2011 - Statement Of Gregory J. Ahart, Director, Human Resources Division Before The Senate Select Committee On Small Business On Food And Drug Administration's Regulation Of Food Additives - January 13, 1977 [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

08 Sep 2011 - Safety Of Aspartame Under Question At The European Food Safety Authority

08 Sep 2011 - Aspartame Production Lines Launched By Mengzhou Huaxing

08 Sep 2011 - BEWARE OF MAYO CLINIC! Pushing Diet Drinks And UNSAFE Sweeteners

03 Sep 2011 - US Government Accounting Office - Food And Drug Administration - July 1986 - Six Former HHS Employees' Involvement In Aspartame's Approval [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

02 Sep 2011 - Aspartame Awareness Weekend - September 9 - 11 2011: Free Diane Fleming

01 Sep 2011 - FDA Says: "So What?!! ...We Must Depopulate!!" [Updated]

27 Aug 2011 - Recent Peer-Reviewed Studies Critical Of Aspartame (Methanol, Formaldehyde, Formic Acid)

19 Aug 2011 - FDA Says: "So What?!! ...We Must Depopulate!!"

13 Aug 2011 - Scientific Peer Reviewed Independent Studies On Aspartame

08 Aug 2011 - Can Aspartame Cause Muscle Pain?

03 Aug 2011 - MSG - A Hidden Danger [Also mentions aspartame]

03 Aug 2011 - Proven Unsafe But FDA-Approved: Are YOU Still Consuming This Man-Made Poison? [Has an embedded video on the web page]

01 Aug 2011 - Department Of Health And Human Services - April 20, 1995 - Symptoms Attributed To Aspartame In Complaints Submitted To The FDA [In English with the Official Spanish Translation (including the official stamps certifying this as an official and accurate translation)]

29 July 2011 - Artificial Sweeteners May Be To Blame For Inflammatory Bowel Disease

27 July 0211 - Open Letter To Senator Durbin: Your Attack On Dietary Supplements, (S-1310) And The Aspartame Issue

27 July 2011 - Killer Coke Newsletter

26 July 2011 - Aspartame Videos And Information [NEW PAGE]

26 July 2011 - Aspartame: Sweet Misery A Poisoned World [YouTube video]

18 July 2011 - Chemical Week - May 21, 1975 - Old Article On DKP [Note Aspartame and MSG cause brain Damage, per Dr. John Olney] [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

14 July 2011 - Research On Soda Consumption Is Conflicted

14 July 2011 - Letter To Ms. Rose Norcross - Canada (Multinationals Who Own Organic Companies, Aspartame And Sucralose In Supplements From Industry)

11 July 2011 - The Hidden Dangers Of Soft Drinks

11 July 2011 - News In Brief: Wimbledon Grunting, Saucy Nurses And Diet Pop

07 July 2011 - Letter To The FDA: Your Fight For Big Pharma And Against Vitamins And Herbs

05 July 2011 - Food Safety Panel Members "Update" Declarations Of Interest - Admitting Industry Ties [Notice this is association with ILSI, the industry research front group discussed in the UPI Investigation. http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf If you're not willing to say aspartame is safe no research funds! - Dr. B. Martini, D.Hum.]

05 July 2011 - Formaldehyde And Formaldehyde-Releasing Preservatives Revisited [Aspartame is specifically mentioned in this article two times. Two skin problems that aspartame is notorious for triggering are urticaria (hives) and rosacea caused by the free methyl alcohol in aspartame. These are the ones that are reported the most. (Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, http://www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D.) - Dr. B. Martini, D. Hum.]

01 July 2011 - Aspartame Confession At Diabetic Conference, Wow! Two New Studies

01 July 2011 - Letter To The French Ministry Of Health - Ban Aspartame

30 June 2011 - Formaldehyde Officially Cancer-Causing

20 June 2011 - The Caloric Mistake That DOUBLES Your Risk Of Gaining Pounds [Has an embedded video on the web page]

16 June 2011 - EFSA Defends Aspartame Work- Denies Dossier Loss

16 June 2011 - Formaldehyde Ban - The End Of Aspartame?

16 June 2011 - Letter To The FDA Concerning The Feds Seizing Elderberry Juice From Kansas Winery

16 June 2011 - The Case For Aspartame Disease Being Gulf War Illness, Lou Gehrigs [Updated]

16 June 2011 - American Firefighters Warned About Aspartame

15 June 2011 - Dietitians Are Buying Coke's Line: Sugar, Fluoride, Artificial Colors Are SAFE For Children!

13 June 2011 - 1994 CDC Report On Aspartame [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

13 June 2011 - Our Daily Poison - In French [This is an video documentary. The video is embedded on the web page]

13 June 2011 - Formaldehyde Added To Carcinogens List

08 June 2011 - 7 'Healthy' Foods That Are Making You Fat

08 June 2011 -Be Aware: This "Food" Radically Increases Your Risk Of Cancer

06 June 2011 - Perhaps the Most Toxic "Health" Drinks Of The Century: Now They Are Trying To Sell You Diet Water [Has an embedded video on the web page]

31 May 2011 - Donald Rumsfeld Confronted About Aspartame [YouTube video]

27 May 2011 - EU Requests New Checks On Aspartame Sweetener

27 May 2011 - Open Letter To EFSA: Aspartame Never Proven Safe

27 May 2011 - Amid Health Fears, Diet Coke Sweetener In Safety Spotlight [Note all the comments!!!]

27 May 2011 - Commission Requests Urgent Safety Review Of Aspartame From EFSA

20 May 2011 - Excitotoxins In Seizure Meds Causing MAJOR Problems!

18 May 2011 - Asda Settles 'Nasty' Aspartame Legal Battle With Ajinomoto [Aspartame is still nasty. If everyone knew how it's made with E. Coli bacteria, I doubt there would be many users. - Dr. B. Martini, D.Hum.]

17 May 2011 - Artificial Sweeteners Speed Alcohol Into Blood

16 May 2011 - Say NO To Aspartame: The 'Hidden' Danger (Part Five)

16 May 2011 - Say NO To Aspartame: The 'Hidden' Danger (Part Four)

13 May 2011 - To Muhtar Kent, CEO Of Coke: Continuation Of Aspartame Complaint At 4/28/11 Stockholder Meeting

13 May 2011 - Sweetener Warning Labels Are Totally Unnecessary - Wrong! Death Can Occur Without Labels

09 May 2011 - Response To Methanol In Aspartame: Continued Our Ref: 33/265 CL (UK)

09 May 2011 - Aspartame Maker Puts The Equal Brand On Other Type Sweeteners [AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE! I met Mr. Stanford when I was at the Coke's Stockholder's meeting through proxy and gave a piece of my mind to the Chairman of Coke, holding up Dr. Roberts medical text for 1000 stockholders to see. Tali Olni, Mission Possible Atlanta and I sat with the press. - Dr. B. Martini]

06 May 2011 - The Lymphoma Association - Aspartame Has Proven To Cause Lymphoma In Peer Reviewed Study

02 May 2011 - Codex Committee On Food Additives Meets In China

02 May 2011 - Are Diet Sodas Harming Your Health? : The Truth Behind Low-Calorie Drinks

28 Apr 2011 - Say NO To Aspartame: The 'Hidden' Danger (Part Two)

28 Apr 2011 - Say NO To Aspartame: The 'Hidden' Danger (Part Three)

26 Apr 2011 - The 'Other' Sweetener That's Made From Sugar, But Is Closer To DDT

25 Apr 2011 - Environment MEPs Approve Proposal On Aspartame Pregnancy Warning

25 Apr 2011 - Truvia Side Effects

22 Apr 2011 - Michelle Obama And Aspartame

18 Apr 2011 - Methanol Material Safety Data Sheet [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

15 Apr 2011 - The Curious Case Of Codex Alimentarius -Two Meetings Highlight Contradictions [Codex and Aspartame, Aluminum, etc.]

14 Apr 2011 - Say NO To Aspartame: The 'Hidden' Danger

12 Apr 2011 - Putting A Lid On Bottled Water Sales

11 Apr 2011 - Boston Mayor Bans Sugary Drinks On Government Property

11 Apr 2011 - NEW! Self-Funded Study Found HUGE Tumors From This Everyday Food [Has an embedded video on the web page]

08 Apr 2011 - 1977 Searle Study [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

04 Apr 2011 - Eight Ways Monsanto Is Destroying Our Health

31 Mar 2011 - Aspartame: FSA Sells Out To Industry, Says Poisonous Methanol Safe

28 Mar 2011 - Hawaiian Punch Getting A Makeover, Inside And Out [The non-diet variety now contains SUCRALOSE]

24 Mar 2011 - Artificial Sweeteners: Should We Be Afraid Of Aspartame? [Of interest there was no one testifying how aspartame got approved through politics and how FDA toxicologist Dr. Adrian Gross even testified in Congress that aspartame caused cancer, violated the law and no ADI should ever have been set. . It was brought up there were never any studies on drug interaction. One recent report admits to 200,000 deaths from properly prescribed drugs, so if physicians don't know to take a dietary history no way he can prescribe for someone on aspartame with safety. . Also he has to have the facts on aspartame. It wasn't mentioned that aspartame is actually in so many drugs, and of course, its not an additive but an excitioneurotoxic carcinogenic drug. You have independent researchers testifying to the truth, and then the Euroepean Food Safety Authority and industry trying to defend the manufacturers as to safety, as usual - Dr. Betty Martini, D. Hum.] [Has an embedded full length movie, "Artificial Sweeteners: Should We Be Afraid Of Aspartame?" on the web page]

24 Mar 2011 - This Toxic Sugar Substitute Could Be In Your Purse, Pocket Or Pantry

23 Mar 2011 - Aspartame Water In Rats For 6 Months Causes Liver Harm

22 Mar 2011 - ASPARTAME: The European Health Authorities Play A Fools Game

21 Mar 2011 - Soda Color Cancer Link In

16 Mar 2011 - Diet Sodas: Fewer Calories, But More Strokes

16 Mar 2011 - New Report Shows How You Get Addicted To Diet Soda

15 Mar 2011 - Diet Soda Linked To Strokes And Vascular Disorders

11 Mar 2011 - Adverse Effects Of Aspartame

10 Mar 2011 - House Of Representatives - Department Of Defense Appropriations, 1970 - December 3, 1969

09 Mar 2011 - Independent Scientific Peer Reviewed Studies For 30 Years Show Harm Caused By Aspartame

09 Mar 2011 - Letter To The FDA: Courageous Whistleblower On Aspartame (Nutrasweet) Jerome Bressler Died

04 Mar 2011 - What is the Most Dangerous Food Additive? : New Diet Sodas Can Cause Strokes

02 Mar 2011 - FDA Admits Aspartame Causes Birth Defects

28 Feb 2011 - FDA Violates Data Quality Act

28 Feb 2011 - Just For The Risk Of It! : Diet Cola Linked To Heart Attack And Stroke

25 Feb 2011 - Courageous FDA Whistleblower Jerome Bressler Died

25 Feb 2011 - Hawaii Bills To Ban Aspartame: Childhood Obesity

25 Feb 2011 - Daily Quaffing Of Diet Soda Heightens Vascular-Event Risk In Cohort Study

23 Feb 2011 - Aspartame Abstinence Cures Fibromyalgia Chronic Pain In 2 French Adults

23 Feb 2011 - Chemico-Biological Interactions

21 Feb 2011 - Diet Coke Sponsors 'Heart Health' Initiative As If Aspartame Were Good For You

18 Feb 2011 - The Aspartame Menace [Has an embedded video on the web page]

17 Feb 2011 - Want To Have A Stroke? Keep Drinking Diet Sodas

17 Feb 2011 - Cancer Causing Chemicals Found In Cola Coloring Ingredient

15 Jan 2011 - Response To The Article "Diet Soda Tied To Stroke Risk, But Reasons Unclear"

15 Jan 2011 - Diet Soda Tied To Stroke Risk: Aspartame

14 Feb 2011 - Gov. Martínez, Take A Stand For Consumer Protection

14 Feb 2011 - Diet Soda Tied To Stroke Risk, But Reasons Unclear [The unclear reasons they mention is called, ASPARTAME!]

10 Feb 2011 - Daily Diet Soda Tied To Higher Risk For Stroke, Heart Attack: 61 Percent Higher Risk Of Vascular Events For Those Who Drank Diet Soda Each Day, Study Finds [Has an embedded video on the web page] [We have been warning people about this for years now!]

10 Feb 2011 - The Newest Dangerous Sweetener To Hit Your Food Shelves

07 Feb 2011 - In Re Aspartame Antitrust Litigation

01 Feb 2011 - The Aspartame Issue And Free Methyl Alcohol: Open Letter To FDA: FOIA

01 Feb 2011 - Paris Aspartame Conference

25 Jan 2011 - Free Sample Of Just Like Sugar [Click On The Bottle That Says "Request A Sample"]

17 Jan 2011 - FDA Admitted Aspartame Causes Birth Defects! [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

17 Jan 2011 - JAMA – David S. Ludwig – July 12, 2010 – Artificially Sweetened Beverages: Cause For Concern [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

14 Jan 2011 - How Coke And Pepsi Are Buying Off Charities

13 Jan 2011 - Letter To The Philadelphia County Department Of Health - Aspartame

13 Jan 2011 - Obesity Journal - Volume 16 Number 8 - August 2008 - Fueling The Obesity Epidemic? Artificially Sweetened Beverage Use And Long-Term Weight Gain [PDF format] (It will open in a new window)

13 Jan 2011 - Votre Recherche : Aspartame [Type in the word "aspartame" in the search engine - This web site is in French]

12 Jan 2011 - Effects Of Artificial Sweeteners On Body Weight, Food And Drink Intake

12 Jan 2011 - Gain Weight By "Going Diet?" Artificial Sweeteners And The Neurobiology Of Sugar Cravings: Neuroscience 2010

07 Jan 2011 - Donald Rumsfeld And The Strange History Of Aspartame

05 Jan 2011 - Aspartame Exposed - GM Bacteria Used To Create Deadly Sweetener

04 Jan 2011 - EPA Lists Of Dangerous Chemicals Including Aspartame

04 Jan 2011 - MSG For You And A Coffin Too! Ajinomoto Bribes U. S. Dept Of Agriculture And University Professors To Sanctify Poisons

03 Jan 2010 - USDA Certified Organic's Dirty Little Secret: Neotame


Aspartame In The News Archives:

Aspartame In The News - 2010

Aspartame In The News - 2009

Aspartame In The News - 2008

Aspartame In The News - 2007