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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1273
citizens against aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde), made by
Ajinomoto, at Jan 3 hearing of NM EIB in Santa Fe: Lehrman:
Murray 2006.01.01

Urgent public support needed Tuesday, January 3rd, 9:30 AM --
round two: citizens vs. irresponsible corporations on toxic aspartame
by Leland Lehrman leland.lehrman@...

Back in October, New Mexico became the first state in the Union to
hold hearings on the possibility of banning the toxic "sweetener"
aspartame (NutraSweet / Equal). There is a deeper meaning to this issue,
which Governor Bill Richardson explained when he recently endorsed
the Nutrition Council Act and the aspartame hearings.
"States need to take back power in the area of consumer protection,
because the FDA doesn't do anything at all," was his way of putting it.

New Mexico is at the crossroads, positive change won't happen without
you, so we urgently need your presence and support on January 3rd at
9:30 AM at the Leo Griego Auditorium,
State Personnel Office, 2600 Cerrillos Rd. Santa Fe, NM.

Attorney Richard Minzner of the Rodey Law Firm will present the
aspartame industry's threatened litigation and their reasons why
New Mexico can't have hearings on the issue at all. His main point --
that aspartame was approved by the FDA and therefore States cannot
ban it -- is moot, given the historic subversion and incompetence,
to say the least, of the scientific oversight community.

The following are just some of the recent national articles --
including an important victim testimonial -- written in support of the
aspartame hearings.

Perhaps most importantly, the National Institute of Health has just
released a peer-reviewed scientific paper on the carcinogenicity of
aspartame.

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/press/111605.html

We still need critical financial support to retain the services of our until
now pro bono attorney Stevan D. Looney, who was largely responsible
for our original success. Call Leland at 505.982.3609 if you can help.

http://www.sutinfirm.com/Lawyer%20Bios/sdlbio.htm
SDL@... 505.883.3386

Will New Mexico be the First State to ban Aspartame?
by Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and Elissa Meininger
December 29, 2005

http://www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn26.htm

One of the most rewarding things about being part of the ever-growing
health freedom movement, is that there is always an upside to what often
looks like a bleak and losing battle against the monolith we call
"modern medicine". In addition, some of the people you meet, even if
only by phone or by e-mail, turn out to be spectacular human beings that
reaffirm your faith in your fellow man. In short, ordinary people can do
extraordinary things when put to the test.

If you recall, back in August, Elissa and I wrote two articles
"Diabetics to be Tracked Down by Government Agents"
and "The Bitter Truth About Regulation of Sugar Substitutes"
which pretty well covered the sorry tale of how sugar and sugar
substitutes can ruin your health, if not kill you, outright.

These articles also covered the dirty and downright corrupt politics
behind how and why the FDA and other government agencies protect
both the sugar industry as well as Big Pharma.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn2.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn3.htm
www.deathbymodernmedicine.com
www.carolyndean.com holeopharm@...

We barely scratched the surface of this saga of blatant corruption in high
places. For more up-to-the-minute details on the horrors of aspartame,
the center of the fake sugar controversy, the focus of today's story, and
what ordinary people in New Mexico are doing about it, you may want
to check out detailed information gathered by my friend, Dr. Betty
Martini, head of Mission Possible at the following website.

You may also want to peruse one of the key pages on this site that
provides a document listing 92 symptoms caused by aspartame that had
to be pried out of the FDA's own records by Freedom of Information
Act means. This should show you that the FDA is not ignorant of the real
facts about aspartame.

http://www.wnho.net/viva_new_mexico.htm

At the time we wrote those two previous articles, we were not aware of
the high drama going on in New Mexico. The man most responsible for
this hullabaloo, that has been going on since 1999, is an art gallery
owner, Stephen Fox, who, along with his fellow citizens, just got fed up
enough about aspartame in the food supply to take action.

Fox, after doing his legal homework, sat down with a pencil and wrote
legislation to create a state Nutrition Council with statutory powers
to challenge the FDA if it mistakenly approves known carcinogens
and neurotoxic food additives. The 2005 version of the bill passed the
state Senate by an overwhelming 32-1 but after corporate lobbyists arm
twisted their way through the cloakroom, it was killed in the House by a
filibuster on the last day of the session.

[See the video on Aspartame "Sweet Misery"]

http://www.newswithviews.com/HNV/Hot_New_Videos1.htm

Fox and his army of outraged citizens, doctors, lawyers, activists and
victims, armed with the knowledge that New Mexico has the legal
authority to ban aspartame, have just turned up the volume and
expanded the campaign.

Please note, folks, your state may also have the same legal power to
ban aspartame, so you can learn from what Fox is doing and start your
own campaign to make your state's public servants do a proper job of
protecting your food supply. In fact, when we interviewed Fox, he said
he would be more than happy to help activists in other states and
provinces in their battle to remove aspartame from the marketplace.
We already know people who are going to take him up on his generous
offer. You can reach Fox at stephen@....

The 2006 campaign to get rid of aspartame is now expanding on two
fronts. On the first front, another Nutrition Council bill has been
introduced with the political support of Governor Bill Richardson,
who has enthusiastically placed it on the agenda for the 2006 short
session, which he controls, doubly endorsing it with an Executive Message.

[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1272
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson endorses Nutrition Council,
mercury ban, aspartame hearings: Lehrman, Fox, Stoller:
Murray 2005.12.27 ]

The purpose of the bill is the same as the last one -- to establish,
by statute, a state agency called the Nutrition Council with the statutory
power to challenge the FDA, if it approves known carcinogens and
neurotoxic food additives.

On the second front, there is a hearing, scheduled for July 2006,
convened by the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB)
and the State's Attorney General, a plan that was conceived after much
public pressure from Fox and company.
As you would expect, corporate lawyers
from the makers of aspartame have threatened litigation to
prevent the hearing from taking place, though, at the moment, Governor
Richardson is standing firm that there needs to be a fair hearing.

One wonders on what grounds such a lawsuit would be based?
Is it the need to prevent public servants from doing their job to protect
the public? Or, more to the point, the need to protect Big Pharma's
profits over the lives and health of innocent consumers?

Elissa's and my fellow health freedom activist, Jim Turner,
who has been the principle critic of aspartame from his earliest days as
one of Ralph Nader's Raiders and author of The Chemical Feast:
The Nader Report on Food Protection and the FDA,
has already provided New Mexico officials his official legal position
on aspartame in the marketplace, which you can read in its entirety.

In it, Turner reviews his 35-year history spent fighting this poison.
He states that aspartame violates both federal and New Mexico food
adulteration statutes and that the FDA approval process was so flawed
as to be legally void. [Read]

www.wnho.net/Jim_Turner_s_New_Mexico_aspartame_letter.pdf

Another high-profile attorney, Edward M. Johnson, now retired after an
illustrious career which resulted in his being listed for the past 15 years
in "Who's Who in American Law", also weighed in on this campaign.

Johnson, noted for his expertise in several related areas of law including
the relationship between federal and state statutes as well as now being
an owner of a distributorship of health and wellness products, not to
mention being a victim of aspartame-caused brain tumors, offered his
legal position to state officials which also includes the comment,
"The banning of aspartame is not only well within your powers, but is in
fact a long overdue service to New Mexico's consumers who are
ingesting this product unknowing its toxicity."

"You are to be commended for having moved this rule change along this
far to take this much needed step of banning aspartame in New Mexico
in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the
state of New Mexico. Other states will follow New Mexico's
example." [Read]

http://www.rense.com/general67/aspar.htm

H.J. Roberts, M.D. F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P. one of America's premier
physicians, and author of four books on the dangers of aspartame,
has written directly to Governor Richardson several times about the need
to curtail and ban aspartame's use. In a phone interview for this article,
Dr. Roberts told us, "Aspartame should not have been approved in the
first place. It was approved arbitrarily and unilaterally on the advice
of inhouse FDA scientists. However, the General Accounting Office and a public
board of inquiry both agreed that it should not be approved.

After more than 20 years of clinical encounters and research and newer
information, we now know that it constitutes an imminent public health
hazard. New Mexico should be given credit for a lot of courage in
looking into this matter, because the Federal Government has not
pursued it in any way it should have, considering the large number of
complaints."m http://sunsentpress.com

As to be expected in a David versus Goliath fight of this magnitude,
lots of people get involved and, by coincidence, the clamor about the
evils of aspartame is now being heard 'round the world'.

In September 2005, The Ecologist, a major British scientific publication,
published a 17-page cover story on the tangled web of deceit
surrounding the approval of aspartame by the FDA and other regulatory
bodies worldwide.

In addition, the publication of a 2005 Italian study on the carcinogenicity
of aspartame, prompted British MP, Roger Williams, a scientist, after a
year of looking into the safety of aspartame, to state what he found
"truly horrified" him. What he told his colleagues on the floor of
Commons was that "sound science and proper regulatory and political
independence had been notable by their absence from approval of
aspartame." [Read]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1667734,00.html

The specific statute Stephen Fox found that gives legs to the whole New
Mexico campaign, and perhaps in your state as well, is as follows:

"A food shall be deemed to be adulterated
1. if it contains any poisonous or deleterious substance
which may render it injurious;
2. if it contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance
which is unsafe, and
3. if it consists in whole or in part of .decomposed substance,
or if it otherwise unfit."

What now remains to be seen is if New Mexico officials will buckle
under the weight of corporate manipulation and/or outright intimidation.
The following letter sent to Dr. Betty Martini, by New Mexico's
Chief Deputy Attorney General, Stuart M. Bluestone,
outlines the authority of the Attorney General's Office,
and gives some assurances. We do hope this is the case.

"Dear Dr. Martini:

Thank you for your letter raising concerns about aspartame and/or the
presence of mercury/thimerosal in vaccines. We respect your sincerity
and appreciate you taking the time to write us about public health issues.

We at the Attorney General's Office are lawyers, not scientists or public
policy makers. Policy decisions based on the review of available
evidence are made by the Governor's appointed policymakers,
e.g., the Environmental Improvement Board or the Board of Pharmacy.

Of course, the Legislature and the Governor also ultimately determine
public policy for our State.

We may provide legal advise, subject to federal and state laws,
constitutional provisions and court cases, to elected and appointed state
officials. We always try to do the best job we can to provide objective
legal opinions. As we review the relevant governing laws, please be
assured that we will be mindful of the important need to protect the
public health, safety and welfare.

Thank you for contacting us."

How You Can Help Right Now

While it is sometimes hard to believe, the most powerful political force in
the world is the will of the people. When enough people demand justice,
politicians, public servants, and even those who run global corporations,
can be brought to their senses to act in the public interest.

The New Mexico Action Matters to All of Us

Ordinary citizens of New Mexico found a law on the books that
establishes that the state has the authority to protect the public from
unsafe foods.

Ordinary citizens of New Mexico are promoting a bill to establish a
permanent agency to watchdog the food supply.

Ordinary citizens of New Mexico have successfully petitioned the
Environmental Improvement Board and the Attorney General's Office
to hold honest public hearings on the safety of aspartame.

So what is the problem? There will be two meetings in the first weeks
of January in Santa Fe, New Mexico that could dramatically alter future
events, or, for that matter, put an end to what the ordinary citizens of
New Mexico have expressly stated as their will.

One meeting is with the Attorney General's Office
and the Environmental Improvement Board and the other with the
Pharmacy Board. At those meetings we hope that the
Attorney General's Office makes a recommendation that the July hearing
goes forward as planned. So, if we are to act, it must be now to make
sure this happens.

Once the July hearing is secured, it's up to the people to keep the heat
on to make sure it will be fair and impartial and no funny stuff goes on
behind closed doors among the power brokers. Since what happens in
Santa Fe in July has national and international ramifications, it is up to
all of us to lend a hand to those in New Mexico who have done
a spectacular job bringing the aspartame scandal to public view.

Consequently, we ask you to spend a few minutes during your New
Year's weekend to send this article to all your friends and urge them to
join you in deluging the capital of New Mexico with e-mail messages
from all over in support of the ordinary people of New Mexico.

Please have these e-mail messages sent to:

Governor Bill Richardson c/o Chief of Staff Dave Contarino at:
dave.contarino@...

Please thank the Governor for putting Senate Bill 525 to create the
Nutrition Council on the Call and giving it his Executive Message.
Please tell him you support states' rights to regulate harmful products
especially now when it is obvious the FDA has failed in its regulatory
responsibilities on a number of drugs and other products such as
aspartame.

Attorney General,
The Honorable Patricia Madrid ewood@...

Deputy General, Stuart Bluestone sbluestone@...

Please tell both Ms. Madrid and Mr. Bluestone that you support their
desire to defend New Mexico's right to challenge the safety of an
FDA-approved product such as aspartame, particularly when it is so
obvious it should never been approved at all.


New Mexico at a Crossroads:
Will the Attorney General of New Mexico Stand Up to Protect Us?
by Gershon Seigel, Publisher Sun Monthly, formerly El Dorado Sun
permpress@...

Real consumer protection is not about the easiest path.
Corporate interests need to be held in check and admonished and
rebuked when it is necessary - not after the fact in huge lawsuits for
damages like we just saw resolved in the Vioxx case in Texas.

Over the years the Sun has examined the medical and legal implications
of the artificial sweetener aspartame. For New Mexico, a critical
crossroads is approaching in the very near future, not concerning
aspartame as a potential neurotoxin, but rather questioning whether or
not the state of New Mexico, through its Board of Pharmacy,
Environmental Improvement Board and Board of Education,
has the right even to investigate such a potential.

This legal-authority question has been asked of the attorney general,
Patricia Madrid, whose office is presently preparing a formal opinion as
to whether our state's boards can legitimately challenge
a Food and Drug Administration-approved product like aspartame.
The FDA's approval was flawed, if not corrupt, to begin with, as was
made clear in the September 2005 Sun article "Rumsfeld's Disease."
Therefore it seems incomprehensible that such a faulty FDA approval
could not be questioned by a state board having heard a significant
amount of evidence thus far.

But this is just what corporate lawyers representing the Japanese firm
Ajinomoto, the world's largest aspartame manufacturer, would like the
boards and the attorney general to believe. Ajinomoto is joined in this
legal effort by an industry front group, the Calorie Control Council.
They have both hired high-powered lawyers to silence the boards on the
grounds that aspartame is "safe" and that, besides, no one but the FDA,
Congress and the federal courts can challenge any of the FDA's
approval processes, at least until someone dies from an FDA-approved
product. In spite of the industry front group's innocent-sounding name,
and given previous and most recent scientific studies indicating the
harmful affects of aspartame, we take exception to Ajinomoto's
assertion of aspartame safety. Coincidently, Ajinomoto also happens
to be the world's largest manufacturer
of another dubious food additive, monosodium glutamate.

We encourage the attorney general to issue a strong opinion supporting
the boards looking into aspartame in children's medicines and in
thousands of food products.

Neurodegenerative diseases are on the upsurge, especially in children
and in the elderly, and no corporate interest can silence or thwart the
ongoing quest for medical truth. Protecting our children lies at the very
core of our existence, and most certainly the attorney general knows this.

We'd like Madrid to recognize the obvious: that in 1981 the FDA's
approval was politically motivated and that these corporate interests
have stymied the real truth about aspartame for the last 24 years through
the evolution of "diet" beverages, "sugarless" gum, "low fat" yogurt and
other pleasant delusions whose net effect has been shown to cause
neurodegenerative mayhem in the human physiology. It is time to put an
end to this destructive mythology and corporate deception.

Attorney General Madrid could roll over and capitulate to the
corporate interests, as if it were the FDA itself that is making the
preemption arguments, which is not the case. From a bureaucratic point
of view, this might be the easiest thing to do. However, real consumer
protection is not about the easiest path. Corporate interests need to be
held in check and admonished and rebuked when it is necessary -
not after the fact in huge lawsuits for damages like we just saw resolved
in the Vioxx case in Texas. As part of the attorney general's statutory
duties and powers, it is her job to protect New Mexicans from further
neurotoxic exposure. Therefore, we strongly encourage Madrid to say
no to the corporate clamor insisting that the Board of Pharmacy and
the Environmental Improvement Board remain silent on this issue,
and instead affirm their right to move forward with aspartame hearings.

In the past, when local laws have threatened corporate bottom lines,
big business has hauled out the Constitution's supremacy and
commerce clauses to support their profits-over-people argument.
This tactic has usually proved successful. However, let us not forget the
tobacco suits of the 1990s, which stunningly affirmed, in effect,
that those corporations that knowingly sell products potentially harmful
to the public risk paying billions in reparations to those states that take
seriously the obligation of protecting the health and safety
of their citizens.

The aspartame industry represents billions of dollars annually, and we
understand the courage needed by the attorney general to stand tall at
this critical juncture for the health and safety of the people of New
Mexico. As with the aforementioned tobacco suits, her decision may
potentially affect the actions of other attorneys general throughout the
country and, therefore, affect millions of Americans and even more
millions of consumers worldwide. However, for Madrid to now
surrender to the industry's legal saber rattling will be nothing less than a
complete abnegation of the powers of her office and a further descent
into the growing corporate control of all government processes.

To voice your input regarding this matter of consumer protection to the
attorney general's office, call (505) 827-6000 and 827-6004, and ask
to leave a message for the Attorney General
and for the Deputy Attorney General, Stuart Bluestone.


Aspartame Victim Testimonial
by Sarah Seiderman sseiderman@...

Dear Sir, [Originally a Letter to the Editor to the Sun News]
I am writing to encourage New Mexico to go forward with the banning
of aspartame in your state.

I am a typical victim of the nightmare of this additive. I am a slightly
overweight woman, with diabetes, who drank diet sodas for many
years -- as many as 10 or 15 servings a day -- never dreaming of the
danger to my health. I began to suffer tremendous headaches, hair loss
and an irregular heartbeat and then, about two years ago, I suddenly
suffered an occlusion of the main artery to the retina of my left eye.
It is now totally blind and nothing will restore sight.

I went from doctor to doctor, seeking a cause but no one knew what
brought about the occlusion. They only knew that it was too late to help
me. Then, someone mentioned the possibility of the aspartame in the
diet drinks being the cause of my ill health. I investigated and found that
Dr. R. G. Walton had written extensively about reticular occlusions
caused by aspartame. He also described many of my other symptoms.
I then stopped using products containing this poison and immediately
my headaches disappeared, but most of my hair is gone, I still have the
irregular heartbeat and I have lost the sight in one eye.
Thank God, I stopped in time to save the other eye.

At the age of 72, this has been a terrible ordeal for me, especially
because my remaining eye is very weak. So I am afraid that I will soon
suffer total blindness... and there is a mountain of evidence that indicates
that it was all caused by my use of aspartame.

Dr. Russell Blaylock, Neurosurgery, has written several treatises on
"what to do if you have used aspartame," a fairly complete and
thorough biochemical regimen based on vitamins, primarily.
It is worth reading but it comes too late for me.

Now I am doing all in my power to reach out to others to warn them
of this terrible poison.
If it is possible to save the health, even the life, of one other person,
will do all in my power to help. I ask you to
support the movement to ban aspartame from all products in your state.
I hope this will lead to a larger ban in the entire country, and the world.
I pray that you are able to accomplish this.

If the New Mexico Attorney General cannot or will not stand up to the
aspartame manufacturing corporations' demands that the hearings by
the Board of Pharmacy and the Environmental Improvement Board
not be held, then the situation is quite hopeless for future victims of
aspartame poisoning like me.

I lost an eye to this neurotoxic carcinogen -- I am certain there are
thousands of New Mexicans with undiagnosed illnesses like Multiple
Sclerosis, seizure diseases, Lou Gehrig's disease, heart and eye disease,
and that there will be many thousands more if your Attorney General
gives in to the toxic corporate demands.

We all know that the FDA is not objecting to the New Mexico Board
of Pharmacy hearings on aspartame; it is the companies that make this
additive who are objecting to these hearings in New Mexico.

I am willing to tell my story to any media source, and am available for
interviews. I will do anything to help make this campaign a success.
Thanks for the opportunity to express my side of this issue.

Sincerely,
Sarah Seiderman 8533 Villa La Jolla Drive, #E La Jolla, CA 92037
858-453-4567

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2006 Celebration to Honor Progressive Community in Santa Fe

Please mark your calendar to honor Social Change groups in Santa Fe
& nearby community, and to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the
political community People for Peace.

The event will be Wednesday, Jan. 4 in the
Unitarian Church Fellowship Room, at the corner of Galisteo and
Barcelona Street, beginning at 7 p.m. Meeting breaks at 9:15 p.m.

We need your help to pass this invitation to others about this annual
gathering at the New Year of our growing and vibrant progressive
community in Santa Fe and elsewhere. Thank you.

Since January 1, 1991, we have been a political community that seeks
to integrate action, support, study -- "the hand, the heart, and mind"

Join People for Peace for their monthly meeting, every first Wednesday,
in the Unitarian Church library, 107 E. Barcelona Street in Santa Fe,
from 7 to 9 p.m.

Call about seminars on third or fourth Wednesdays. A seminar on
Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience " will be held Wednesday,
February 15, followed by a Spring Series of Seminars on the
Writings of Mahatma Gandhi.

For information about the anniversary meeting, our regular meeting,
and seminars, call 983.3906 or email lhibbs@...

Check the website and weblog at www.mothermedia.org
Send encouragement by paypal to leland@... or by check to
Leland Lehrman
163 Old Lamy Trail Lamy, NM 87540 505.982.3609
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Sunday, January 1, 2006

Any unsuspected source of methanol, which the body always quickly
and largely turns into formaldehyde and then formic acid, must be
monitored, especially for high responsibility occupations, often with
night shifts, such as pilots and nuclear reactor operators.

In particular, the next review gives many recent mainstream
peer-reviewed studies that show formaldehyde,
always inevitably derived in the body from any methanol source,
including aspartame, causes endothelial injury,
ie, diabetic neuropathy -- among the most serious and complex
complications of diabetes.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1263
many studies on endothelial injury (diabetic neuropathy) by adducts of
formaldehyde derived from methylamine from many of the same sources
as also supply methanol (formaldehyde), including aspartame:
PH Yu et al: DJ Conklin et al: Murray 2005.12.04

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1237
ubiquitous potent uncontrolled co-factors in nutrition research are
formaldehyde from wood and tobacco smoke and many sources,
including from methanol in dark wines and liquors, in pectins
in fruits and vegetables, and in aspartame: Murray 2006.01.01

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/925
aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 1/2
full text Trocho & Alemany 1998.06.26
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona : Murray 2002.12.22

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1250
aspartame causes cancer in rats at levels approved for humans,
Morando Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Foundation, Italy &
National Toxicology Program
of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2005.11.17 Env. Health Pers. 35 pages: Murray

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1271
combining aspartame and quinoline yellow, or MSG and brilliant blue,
harms nerve cells, eminent C. Vyvyan Howard et al, 2005
education.guardian.co.uk, Felicity Lawrence: Murray 2005.12.21

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1274
harm to fetus from formaldehyde from methanol from aspartame,
Woodrow C. Monte: Murray 2006.01.02

As a medical layman, I suggest that evidence mandates immediate
exploration of the role of these ubiquitious, potent formaldehyde
sources as co-factors in epidemiology, research, diagnosis,
and treatment in a wide variety of disorders.

Folic acid, from fruits and vegetables, plays a role by powerfully
protecting against methanol (formaldehyde) toxicity.

Many common drugs, such as aspirin, interfere with folic acid,
as do some mutations in relevant enzymes.

The majority of aspartame reactors are female.

In mutual service, Rich Murray
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"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority,
to actively find, quickly share, and act upon the facts
about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment."

Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@...
505-501-2298 1943 Otowi Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
group with 149 members, 1,273 posts in a public, searchable archive
http://RoomForAll.blogspot.com http://AspartameNM.blogspot.com

Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide
similar levels of methanol, above 100 mg daily, for
long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans.

Methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid.
It is the major cause of the dreaded symptoms of "next
morning" hangover.

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, 37 mg,
is 18.5 times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in
drinking water, 2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1224
Aspartame disease: an FDA-approved epidemic, H. J. Roberts,
MD 2004: Murray 2005.09.30

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1233
Aspartame -- the shocking story, The Ecologist, 2005 Sept.,
p. 35-51, full text: Murray 2005.09.30: the correct author,
Pat Thomas, What Doctors Don't Tell You www.wddty.co.uk :
2005.10.11

"Survey of aspartame studies: correlation of outcome and funding
sources," 1998, unpublished: http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html
Walton found 166 separate published studies in the peer reviewed
medical literature, which had relevance for questions of human safety.
The 74 studies funded by industry all (100%) attested to aspartame's
safety, whereas of the 92 non-industry funded studies, 84 (91%)
identified a problem. Six of the seven non-industry funded studies
that were favorable to aspartame safety were from the FDA, which
has a public record that shows a strong pro-industry bias.
Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio
Universities, College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown,
OH 44501, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine,
Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240
Youngstown, OH 44501 330-740-3621 rwalton193@...
http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/857
www.dorway.com: original documents and long reviews of flaws in
aspartame toxicity research: Murray 2002.07.31

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/858
Samuels: Strong: Roberts: Gold: flaws in double-blind studies re
aspartame and MSG toxicity: Murray 2002.08.01

http://www.truthinlabeling.org/ Truth in Labeling Campaign [MSG]
Adrienne Samuels, PhD The toxicity/safety of processed
free glutamic acid (MSG): a study in suppression of information.
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aspartame expose 96K Oct 1987 Part 1/3:
Gregory Gordon, UPI reporter: Murray 2000.07.10

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aspartame history Part 1/4 1964-1976: Gold: Murray 1999.11.06

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revolving door, Monsanto, FDA, EPA: NGIN: Murray 2002.12.23

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Donald Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA
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