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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1152
reply to Ferne Hudson, Tate & Lyle PLC, re Splenda (sucralose) policy:
Murray 2005.02.08 rmforall

Dear Ms. Ferne Hudson,

I will of course honor your polite request to not send more posts to you and
your firm.

To answer your question:

As an earnest medical layman, age 62, I have been serving as a volunteer
activist on the Net for 6 years for the issue of aspartame toxicity and
related issues, mainly by posting civil, balanced, exhaustive reviews of
mostly mainstream scientific research.

The 11% methanol component of the aspartame molecule is immediately released
in the G.I. tract, and soon turned into formaldehyde and formic acid, both
cumulative, potent toxins. The actual disposition of these toxins in humans
is still largely unknown, according to the expert review by M. Bouchard et
al in 2001.

Many heavy users slowly become aspartame reactors, with a typical complex
suite of ever-worsening symptoms. The research to determine the percentage
of users who become reactors has simply never been done, nor have any
reactors been studied scientifically in thorough detail.

In Jan 1999, aspartame@yahoogroups.com had 30 members, since grown steadily
to 810, with a permanent, public archive of 18,067 posts, searched by
Google. In the last year, three new scientific teams published negative
findings on aspartame in mainstream medical journals. Today, both Coca-Cola
and Pepsi have announced that they will launch sucralose versions of their
mainline sodas in the second quarter -- not giving any explanation as to
their reasons for changing their hugely profitable aspartame sodas.
Sucralose has soared, capturing over half the market.

I have been recommending sucralose for six years as a much safer alternative
to aspartame. However, there are substantial deficiencies in the research
for the safety of sucralose, including disturbing findings in animal
studies, reviewed officially in 2000, as well as reasonable doubts about any
research controlled by vested interests.

This weekend I found a large, competent website by Mr. Mark J. Yannone, a
programmer, who in email on 2001.01.22 reported that his seizures were cured
by giving up aspartame. Aspartame and sucralose are only a small fraction
of the issues listed on his voluminous site.

http://www.foodanddiet.com/ foodanddiet@... Mark J. & Cherie Yannone
1421 E Charleston Ave, Phoenix AZ 85022
Phone 602-569-9632 Fax 602-569-9635

http://www.foodanddiet.com/NewFiles/splenda-story-list.html lists an
ever-growing archive, now 236 reports in a year, of posts about symptoms
from sucralose -- about 10% of the posts said they had no problems. The
sophistication, size, organization, and clarity of this site far exceeds
what aspartame activists offered six years ago, as does the amount of user
information.

Here are the first titles:

'I woke up with my very first migraine ever...
There has never been any negative side effect...
I have been headache free for two weeks now...
Using Splenda for a year now with no problem...
Uncontrollable bouts with gas...
I'll continue with the Splenda...
Hot and cold flashes, but also depressed for no reason...
I plan to throw out the entire box...
It IS the sucralose making me ill...
At no point would I have ever put two-and-two together...
We recently changed our way of eating...
I can relate to the symptoms I have read...
I know I feel better now, and I know how I was feeling then...
Splenda was like a kick in the stomach...
I felt so terrible I was not even able to go to work...
My focus seems to be returning...
I'm still in awe of my experience...
I have had a whopping headache for hours now...
I had one encounter with the use of Splenda...
Splenda is not so splendid...
I truly cannot attribute negative side effects to the sweetener...
I can't believe that I have been poisoning myself ...
I also stopped losing weight after adding sucralose...
I found myself spinning into a dark depression...
I started feeling "not myself"...
I have only used Splenda a few times...
I noticed incredible fatigue and sleepiness...
I am not happy with the results...
I didn't even realize it might be the Splenda ...
I had the worst feeling...
Two weeks ago, my wife decided to use Splenda ...
What a terrible mistake!...
I have had no side effects at all...
I decided to try Splenda again...
I wanted to pass along my story about sucralose...
I started using Splenda in small doses..."

"Based upon information supplied to us by our visitors, we note the
following
possible side effects from consumption of sucralose:

bloating
abdominal pain
gas
nausea
diarrhea
headaches
migraines (severe headaches)
heart palpitations (fluttering)
shortness of breath
depression or overwhelming anxiety
spaced-out or drugged sensation
joint pain
dizziness"

I notice that these are also common symptoms reported by aspartame reactors.

He provides these links:

http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/

http://proliberty.com/observer/20031112.htm

http://www.laleva.cc/food/splenda.htm

http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/N243.html

http://www.vegsource.com/talk/sugarfree/messages/56420.html

"It should be noted that little positive information will be found on these
websites. If you are interested in reviewing the benefits of Splenda, we
recommend a visit to their website at http://www.splenda.com

On 2 April 2004, we received a note from a visitor offering a link to a
study and conclusions by a governing body as it concerns sucralose. We read
the report and determined that, while the debate concerning mutagenic
properties of sucralose may have been resolved at some level, the production
of the studies by the manufacturers and licensees leaves us with questions
about the credibility of the findings. However, we strongly recommend that
everyone read the study and make their own determination. This document is a
PDF and will require Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Click here to read the study.
[ European Union Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food on sucralose
2000.09.07 25 pages ]
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out68_en.pdf "

"We found the complaint form at the FDA for making reports of side
effects from food products. If you have experienced negative reactions or
side effects from sucralose, click here to report them.
[ How to Report Problems with Products Regulated by FDA ]
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/problem.html#food

Another report form was suggested by C.E.C.: click here for the
downloadable, printable report form from the FDA for adverse reactions.
[ The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program ]
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/index.html "

This site is very effective at mobilizing information and influencing
opinion.

In today's reality, the Net makes things happen far more quickly. Your firm
needs to pay full-time daily attention to the actual research situation
about sucralose and its competitors, and to rapidly evolving public
consensus. The blandishments of adroit public relations, the platitudes of
advertising, and the belated, compromized pronouncements of official
agencies are no longer the controlling the actual world public consensus, as
the recent history of aspartame clearly demonstrates.

Your firm may do well to consider taking the initiative in collecting,
publicizing, and analyzing user reports, and in somehow fostering completely
independent, speedy, through, definitive research, freely and immediately
published on the Net, on the disposition of sucralose metabolites in
sucralose reactors, along with appropriate responsible action, such as
specific preventive warnings to the public.

If the actual level of toxicity is less than 0.1 %, and not too harmful,
then the public may continue to enjoy the protection that sucralose offers
against the known great harm from sugar, high fructose corn syrup,
aspartame, and possibly neotame.

This policy would be an excellent protection against possibly crippling
legal liabilities and vertiginous product meltdown. It would set a high
standard for enlightened service capitalism, that would spontaneous catalyze
a key global consensus.

In mutual service, Rich Murray
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1150
How far from sugar is splenda? Pallavi Gogoi, businessweek.com 2005.02.02:
Murray 2005.02.04 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1151
Jupiter man leads new player into sweetener market, Susan Salisbury re Mike
Scott of Sweetener Solutions (neotame), Univar USA, Herr Foods, Dairy House:
Murray re methanol issue 2005.02.07 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1153
Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food on sucralose, European Union
2000.09.07 25 pages plain text: Murray 2005.02.08 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1154
The Five Soft Drink Monsters, Mike Adams 2004 book, plain text 15+39 pages,
decries aspartame and sucralose: 2005.02.09 rmforall

extracts from FDA approval of neotame:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/843
RTM: full text: Federal Register 7.9.2 Vol 67 Num 131 Pages 45300-45310

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/860
RTM: FDA: objections to neotame approval 8.4.2 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1144
any evidence for neotame toxicity? Dewey: Murray 2005.01.07 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1149
Neotame: The Next-Generation Sweetener, Indra Prakash et al, Food
Technology 2002 July 56(7): 36-40, 41. free full plain text, 6 pages,
without figures: methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid toxicity,
Murray 2005.01.24 rmforall

http://www.mercola.com/forms/stevia.htm 2005 report

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1122
UN FAO & WHO approve Steviol glycosides as sweetener June 2004, imports to
UK no longer blocked: Martini: Murray 2004.10.17 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1084
26 stevia safety abstracts since 1993: aspartame vs stevia debate on
alt.support.diabetes, George Schmidt, OD: Murray 2004.05.25 rmforall

http://www.mercola.com/2005/feb/2/splenda_marketing.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2004/dec/25/splenda_supply.htm Newsday

http://www.mercola.com/2004/jul/21/splenda.htm Janet Starr Hull

http://www.mercola.com/2004/jul/14/splenda_marketing.htm MSNBC.com

http://www.mercola.com/2004/mar/31/splenda_reaction.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2004/mar/24/low_carb_soda.htm Pepsi Edge

http://www.mercola.com/2004/feb/11/nutrasweet.htm Janet Starr Hull reports

http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/10/splenda_questions.htm Janet Starr Hull

http://www.mercola.com/2003/nov/8/splenda_dangers.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2003/aug/23/splenda.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/10/soda_pop_dangers.htm Sally Squires

http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_products.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_testimonials.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143
methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M et al, full
plain text, 2001: substantial sources are degradation of fruit pectins,
liquors, aspartame, smoke: Murray 2005.02.02 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1140
EPA Preliminary Remedial Goals, PRGs, 2003 Oct, air and tap water --
methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid -- not mentioned is methanol from
aspartame, dark wines and liquors: Murray 2004.11.20 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1141
Nurses Health Study can quickly reveal the extent of aspartame (methanol,
formaldehyde, formic acid) toxicity: Murray 2004.11.21 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/870
Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Interest 1984: Monte:
Murray 2002.09.23 rmforall

Dr. Woodrow C. Monte Aspartame: methanol, and the public health.
Journal of Applied Nutrition 1984; 36 (1): 42-54.
(62 references) Professsor of Food Science
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 woodymonte@...
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016
President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini Foundation
carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray 8.3.3 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1108
faults in 1999 July EPA 468-page formaldehyde profile:
Elzbieta Skrzydlewska PhD, Assc. Prof., Medical U. of Bialystok, Poland,
abstracts -- ethanol, methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid, acetaldehyde,
lipid peroxidation, green tea, aging, Lyme disease:
Murray 2004.08.08 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/927
Donald Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA approval:
Turner: Murray 2002.12.23 rmforall

A very detailed, highly credible account of the dubious approval process for
aspartame in July, 1981 is part of the just released two-hour documentary
"Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World: An Industry Case Study of a Food Supply
In Crisis" by Cori Brackett: cori@...
http://www.soundandfuryproductions.com/ 520-624-9710
2301 East Broadway, Suite 111 Tucson, AZ 85719

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages
Aspartame Victims Support Group Edward Bryant Holman, Chief Moderator
810 members, 18,067 posts in a public, searchable archive
http://www.presidiotex.com/aspartame/ bryanth@...

http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame mgold@...
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold also Co-Moderator
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2110
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"

http://www.sweetpoison.com/ Janet Starr Hull, PhD, CN jshull@...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1092
Janet Starr Hull, who also had Graves disease in 1991, told Justin Dumais to
quit aspartame: Murray 2004.06.12 rmforall

http://www.aspartamesafety.com marystod@...
Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline [1987-2004]
P.O. Box 2001 Frisco, TX 75034 1-214-387-4001 [ 25 miles N of Dallas ]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/957
safety of aspartame Part 1/2 12.4.2: EC HCPD-G SCF:
Murray 2003.01.12 rmforall EU Scientific Committee on Food, a whitewash

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1045
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002-response.htm
Mark Gold exhaustively critiques European Commission Scientific
Committee on Food re aspartame ( 2002.12.04 ): 59 pages, 230 references

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1131
genotoxicity of aspartame in human lymphocytes 2004.07.29 full plain text,
Rencuzogullari E et al, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey 2004 Aug: Murray
2004.11.06 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1088
Murray, full plain text & critique:
chronic aspartame in rats affects memory, brain cholinergic receptors, and
brain chemistry, Christian B, McConnaughey M et al, 2004 May:
2004.06.05 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1067
eyelid contact dermatitis by formaldehyde from aspartame, AM Hill & DV
Belsito, Nov 2003: Murray 3.30.4 rmforall [ 150 KB ]
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hudson, Ferne Ferne.Hudson@...
To: 'Rich Murray'
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:25 AM
Subject: RE: Jupiter man leads new player into sweetener market, Susan
Salisbury re Mike Scott of Sweetener Solutions (neotame), Univar USA,Herr
Foods, Dairy House: Murray re methanol issue 2005.02.07 rmforall

Dear Mr Murray,
You have copied to me and my colleagues several emails you have sent to
journalists and third parties in relation to sweeteners. Could you tell me
what your interest in this matter is and why you are sending us these
emails?
We would request that in future you do not CC us on your communications to
third parties of this kind.
Kind regards, Ferne Hudson Public Relations Manager Tate & Lyle PLC
Sugar Quay Lower Thames Street London EC3R 6DQ
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