http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1046
MCS, formaldehyde, methanol, aspartame: South Australia Upper House of
Parliament: Buckland: Murray 1.1.4 rmforall

From: "Diana Buckland" <dbucklan@...>
To: <rmforall@...>
Subject: Fw: Australian Government multiple chemical sensitivity enquiry
Date: Thursday, January 01, 2004 3:36 AM

My name is Diana Buckland and my son suffers multiple chemical
sensitivity/chemical injury/illness/intolerance.

On 9th July, 2003, South Australia's Upper House, the Legislative Council,
voted unanimously to support an Australian Democrat's motion, The Hon.
Sandra Kanck, requesting the Social Development Committee enquire into and
report on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

The Social Development Comittee is a standing Parliamentary Committee of six
elected representatives, three from the Upper House and three from the Lower
House, who regularly investigate issues of public concern.

A Parliamentary enquiry into MCS is a big step forward and a great
opportunity for people suffering multiple chemical sensitivity/chemical
injury/illness/intolerance and their supporters, to tell their story and
present their case to legislators. The enquiry will help to inform the
basis for future public health policy and guide reforms in chemical
regulation.

Submissions to the enquiry are now open and will be formally considered from
February, 2004 and are open nationally and internationally. No closing date
at this time has been mentioned, so people who suffer chemical
injury/illness/sensitivity/intolerance, may present their stories "as they
have to live it" and any documentation whatsoever supporting mcs/chemical
injury/illness/intolerance may be submitted also.

The postal address is : Ms Robyn Schutte
Secretary, Social Development Committee
Parliament House, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000 South Australia
the email address for submissions is robyn.schutte@...

The bottom line is to tell it as it is, they do want to hear each person's
story, the suffering, difficulty/impossibility accessing any health care,
home health care, home help or any help whatsoever (depending on the level
of chemical sensitivity as this is variable) the isolation, the ridicule,
abandonment -- that"s what it's all about -- tell your story of how you are
affected and any other supportive mcs/chemical injury/illness/intolerance
documentation - In Australia, many people have done multiple submissions and
will continue to do so.

Please, take this opportunity to submit your information to influence
national policy, which will, in turn, impact upon other Governments by
example -- please take the time to inform these officials of the realities
of chemical injury/illness/sensitivity to to best of your abilities. Let
us make this a year in which we can be granted the recognition required for
all people globally suffering chemical
injury/illness/sensitivity/intolerance.

Thank you, Diana Buckland,
for and on behalf of those persons chemically
ill/injured/sensitive/intolerant
4 Mia Street, Kallangur, 4503, Queensland, Australia
dbucklan@...
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From: "Rich Murray" <rmforall@...>
To: <robyn.schutte@...>
Subject: aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity: Murray 1.1.4 rmforall
Date: Thursday, January 01, 2004 7:19 PM

January 1 2004

Ms Robyn Schutte, Secretary, Social Development Committee
Parliament House, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000 South Australia

Dear Ms Schutte: These reviews, among many others in the recent mainstream
scientific research literature, highlight the role of formaldehyde as a
instigator and trigger for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity type diseases.
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel, Benevia, E951) is a still largely
unrecognized source of chronic long-term, low-level formaldehyde exposure, a
potent, cumulative toxin for all tissues.

In mutual service, Rich Murray, MA

http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehyde_1990.html full text Jack Dwayne
Thrasher, Alan Broughton, Roberta Madison. Immune activation and
autoantibodies in humans with long-term inhalation exposure to formaldehyde.
Archives of Environmental Health. 1990; 45: 217-223. "Immune activation,
autoantibodies, and anti-HCHO-HSA antibodies are associated with long-term
formaldehyde inhalation." PMID: 2400243

Confirming evidence and a general theory are given by Pall (2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/909
testable theory of MCS type diseases, vicious cycle of nitric oxide &
peroxynitrite: MSG: formaldehyde-methanol-aspartame:
Martin L. Pall: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/946
Functional Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Disease Part 1/2:
Perlmutter 7.15.99: Murray 1.10.3 rmforall
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aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity: Murray 1.1.4 rmforall

Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@...
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA 505-986-9103

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1039
three-page review: aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity:
Murray 11.22.3 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1026
brief aspartame review: formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.11.3 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/989 On 4.10.2003
the European Union Parliament voted 440 to 20 to approve sucralose,
limit cyclamates & reevaluate aspartame & stevia: Murray 4.12.3 rmforall

http://google.com gives 221,000 websites for "aspartame" , with the top
9 of 10 listings being anti-aspartame, while
http://groups.google.com finds on 700 MB of posts from 20 years of
Usenet groups, 83,800 posts, the top 10 being anti-aspartame.
http://news.google.com 28 recent aspartame items from 4500 sources.
http://www.AllTheWeb.com gives 291,700, the top 7 of 10 being
leading and very well informed volunteer anti-aspartame sites.
http://teoma.com/index.asp gives 85,700 websites, top 8 of 10 anti.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed lists 742 aspartame items.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1025
aspartame & formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.9.3 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
for 1046 posts in a public searchable archive 125 members

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages 757 with 16,348 posts

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1024
aspartame review: methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid toxicity:
Murray 9.5.3 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/910
formaldehyde & formic acid from methanol in aspartame:
Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall

It is certain that high levels of aspartame use, above 2 liters daily
for months and years, must lead to chronic formaldehyde-formic acid
toxicity, since 11% of aspartame (1,120 mg in 2L diet soda, 5.6 12-oz
cans) is 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol), immediately released into the
body after drinking (unlike the large levels of methanol locked up in
molecules inside many fruits), then quickly transformed into
formaldehyde, which in turn becomes formic acid, both of which in
time are partially eliminated as carbon dioxide and water.

However, about 30% of the methanol remains in the body as cumulative
durable toxic metabolites of formaldehyde and formic acid-- 37 mg daily,
a gram every month. [Metabolism of aspartame in monkeys.
Oppermann JA, Muldoon E, Ranney RE.
J. Nutrition 1973 Oct; 103(10): 1454-1459.]
If 10% of the methanol is retained as formaldehyde, that would give 12
mg daily formaldehyde accumulation, about 60 times more than the 0.2 mg
from 10% retention of the 2 mg EPA daily limit for formaldehyde in water.

Bear in mind that the EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water is
1 ppm, or 2 mg daily for a typical daily consumption of 2 L of water.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/835
RTM: ATSDR: EPA limit 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water July 1999
5.30.2 rmforall

This long-term low-level chronic toxic exposure leads to typical
patterns of increasingly severe complex symptoms, starting with
headache, fatigue, joint pain, irritability, memory loss, and
leading to vision and eye problems, and even seizures. In many cases
there is addiction. Probably there are immune system disorders, with a
hypersensitivity to these toxins and other chemicals.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/872
immune system reactions due to formaldehyde from the 11% methanol in
aspartame: Thrasher: Tephly: Monte: Murray 9.27.2 rmforall

J. Nutrition 1973 Oct; 103(10): 1454-1459.
Metabolism of aspartame in monkeys.
Oppermann JA, Muldoon E, Ranney RE.
Dept. of Biochemistry, Searle Laboratories,
Division of G.D. Searle and Co. Box 5110, Chicago, IL 60680
They found that about 70% of the radioactive methanol in aspartame put
into the stomachs of 3 to 7 kg monkeys was eliminated within 8 hours,
with little additional elimination, as carbon dioxide in exhaled air
and as water in the urine. They did not mention
that this meant that about 30% of the methanol must transform
into formaldehyde and then into formic acid, both of which must remain
as toxic products in all parts of the body. They did not report any
studies on the distribution of radioactivity in body tissues, except
that blood plasma proteins after 4 days held 4% of the initial
methanol. This study did not monitor long-term use of aspartame.

The low oral dose of aspartame and for methanol was 0.068 mmol/kg,
about 1 part per million [ppm] of the acute toxicity level of 2,000
mg/kg, 67,000 mmol/kg, used by McMartin (1979). Two L daily use of
diet soda provides 123 mg methanol, 2 mg/kg for a 60 kg person, a dose
of 67 mmole/kg, a thousand times more than the dose in this study.
By eight hours excretion of the dose in air and urine had leveled off
at 67.1 +-2.1% as CO2 in the exhaled air and 1.57+-0.32% in the urine,
so 68.7 % was excreted, and 31.3% was retained. [This data is the
average of 4 monkeys.]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/915
formaldehyde toxicity: Thrasher & Kilburn: Shaham: EPA: Gold: Murray:
Wilson: CIIN: 12.12.2 rmforall

Thrasher (2001): "The major difference is that the Japanese demonstrated
the incorporation of FA and its metabolites into the placenta and fetus.
The quantity of radioactivity remaining in maternal and fetal tissues
at 48 hours was 26.9% of the administered dose." [Ref. 14-16]

Arch Environ Health 2001 Jul-Aug; 56(4): 300-11.
Embryo toxicity and teratogenicity of formaldehyde. [100 references]
Thrasher JD, Kilburn KH.
Sam-1 Trust, Alto, New Mexico, USA.
http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehyde_embryo_toxicity.html full text
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