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June 7 meeting of the New Mexico Environmental Board regarding the
neurotoxicity of aspartame ( NutraSweet, Equal -- the blue packets ): NM
Food Statutes: Fox: Murray 2005.06.04

From: "Stephen Fox" <stephen@...>
To: "Rich Murray" <rmforall@...>
Subject: June 7 meeting of the New Mexico Environmental Board regarding the
neurotoxicity of aspartame ( NutraSweet, Equal -- the blue packets )
Date: Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:35 PM

[ minor editing by Rich Murray for appearance, clarity, and a typo ]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 7 meeting of the New Mexico Environmental Board regarding the
neurotoxicity of aspartame ( NutraSweet, Equal -- the blue packets )

The neurotoxicity of aspartame, the artificial sweetener with an 11%
methanol (wood alcohol) component that becomes formaldehyde and thus
causes profound neurodegenerative afflictions in humans,
will be the subject of a presentation to the New Mexico Environmental
Improvement Board on Tuesday, June 7 at 9:30 A.M. in room 321 of the
New Mexico State Capitol.

The Environmental Improvement Board has the statutory power to regulate and
maintain the standards for food quality in New Mexico.

In accordance with several almost unknown New Mexico statutes
[ NM 25-2-7, 25-2-10, and 25-2-13, which date back to 1941 ] regarding the
process whereby poisonous additives to food can be identified as such, and
subsequently prosecuted by the NM Attorney General, this presentation is
organized by Stephen Fox, nutrition advocate and designer of several bills
in the 2006 legislative session, who is spearheading this effort to make
consumer protection in New Mexico actually mean something in terms of
preventing neurotoxic food additives from poisoning New Mexicans.

Several physicians with keen interest in and knowledge of these matters are
part of the presentation:

Dr. George Schwartz, M.D. toxicologist and editor of Principles and Practice
of Emergency Medicine. (505) 610-8243

Dr. Grant La Farge, M.D. pediatric cardiologist and former professor of
Medicine at Harvard University Medical School. (505) 982-7661

Dr. Ken Stoller, M.D., pediatrician and author of expert treatises and
legislative memorials regarding mercury neurotoxicity in dental amalgams and
in children's vaccinations. (505) 820-6234

Aspartame was approved in 1981 for general use as an artificial sweetener by
the FDA, and in 1983 for use in soft drinks. It is found in diet beverages
[ including Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Dr. Pepper, 7UP, and numerous others ],
sweeteners for coffee and tea, Indulge, Dannon Low Fat yogurt, Wrigley's
chewing gum, and even in Flintstones' childrens' vitamins, totaling 7000
products consumed by 70% of the adults and 40% of the children in the USA.

The USA FDA lists 92 medical symptoms attributed to aspartame, the #1
product complained about to the FDA, and these include: headaches, fatigue,
poor memory, irritability, confusion, depression, aching joints, muscle
cramps, dizziness, vision problems, nausea, and even seizures.
Yet, the FDA refuses to withdraw its approval of aspartame despite repeated
petitions that they do so, and a mountain of evidence that this must be
done.

The FDA was the subject of an extensive comment on June 1 in Santa Fe by New
York Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, candidate for Governor of New York,
who visited Santa Fe for a fundraising event: "The FDA is a joke!" He then
went into detail about New York's suits against Glaxo-Welcome, one of the
world's largest pharmaceutical corporations, for its lack of disclosure of
potentially ruinous information about its products, and related examples of
corporate manipulation of the FDA approval processes.

For more information, please contact the physicians listed above, as well as
neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of numerous medical articles
on aspartame and degenerative brain disorders, as well as the detailed,
fully referenced book: Excitotoxins: the Taste that Kills. (601) 982-1175.

Stephen Fox (505) 983-2002.

Mark D. Gold, Aspartame Toxicity Information Center, Concord, New Hampshire
(603) 225-2110

The New Mexico Secretary of Environment, Ron Curry (505) 827-2855 or
1-800-219-6157

For more information on the statutes being used in this presentation, please
contact the New Mexico Supreme Court Library. (505) 827-4850
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New Mexico Environment Department
1190 St. Francis Drive
P.O. Box 26110
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502

http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/oots/eib.htm

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Thursday, May 31, I got the NM Statutes at NM State Library
by Camino Carlos Rey, and zeroxed the cover and pages 1-14 of Chapter 25.
I added spacing to these quotes to increase readability. ]

[ the board means the NM Environmental Improvement Board ]

New Mexico Statutes 1978 Annotated
Chapter 25 Food Pamphlet 45
1993 Replacement Pamphlet

I am especially encouraged by Section 25-2-13,
which gives the EIB very broad, potent, and independent authority to
regulate any doubtful food additive:

"'25-2-13. Promulgating regulations governing the addition of any poisonous
or deleterious substances in food.

A. Any poisonous or deleterious substance

added to any food,

except where such substance is required

in the production thereof

or cannot be avoided by good manufacturing practice,

shall be deemed to be unsafe

for purposes of the application of Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of Section
25-2-10 NMSA 1978;

but when such substance is so required

or cannot be so avoided,

the board shall promulgate regulations

limiting the quantity therein or thereon

to such extent as the board finds necessary

for the protection of public health,

and any quantity exceeding the limits so fixed

shall be also be deemed to be unsafe

for purpose of the application
of Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of Section 25-2-10 NMSA 1978.

While such a regulation is in effect limiting the quantity

of any such substance

in the case of any food,

such food shall not,

by reason of bearing or containing

any added amount of such substance,

be considered to be adulterated

within the meaning
of Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of Section 25-2-10 NMSA 1978.

In determining the quantity of such added substance

to be tolerated in or on different articles of food,

the board shall take into acccount

the extent to which the use of such substance is required

or cannot be avoided in the production of each such article

and the other ways in which the consumer may be affected

by the same or other poisonous or deleterious substances."


"25-2-10. When food deemed adulterated.

A food shall be deemed to be adulterated:

A. (1) if it bears or contains any poisonous of deleterious substances
which may render it injurious to health;
but in case the substance is not an added substance
such food shall not be considered adulterated under this clause
if the quantity of such substance in such good [food]
does not ordinarily render it injurious to health; or

(2) if it bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious
substance which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 13 [ 25-2-13 NMSAAA
1978];"


Also very germane to the case are;

"25-2-3. [Prohibited acts]

The following acts and the causing thereof within the state of New Mexico
are hereby prohibited:

E. the dissemination of any false advertisement."

"25-2-14. [When advertising deemed false.]

An advertisement of a food shall be deemed to be false
if it is false or misleading in any particular."
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Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@... 505-501-2298
1943 Otowi Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1165
short review: research on aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid)
toxicity: Murray 2005.06.04 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1071
research on aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid) toxicity: Murray
2004.04.29 rmforall

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 2005.04.02 rmforall

Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol-- 1,120 mg aspartame in 2 L diet soda,
almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol). If 30% of
the methanol is turned into formaldehyde, the amount of formaldehyde is 18
times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in drinking water, 2 mg in 2
L water.
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