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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1282
Citizen comments # 103 to 70, re Aspartame: Bill would ban food
containing sweetener, Diana Heil, The New Mexican:
Murray 2006.01.17

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1280
Aspartame: Bill would ban food containing sweetener [in New Mexico]:
Diana Heil, The New Mexican: 69 citizen comments:
Murray 2006.01.15

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/37758.html


By Rich Murray (Submitted: 01/16/2006 8:31 pm )

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1281
Aspartame Hearing, letter in The New Mexican, George
R. Schwartz, MD, page A-5: Murray 2006.01.16

Aspartame Hearing

Regarding the aspartame issue:
the state of New Mexico is in a unique position to
safeguard the health of its residents by taking action
against this toxic and likely cancer-producing
substance.

We are fortunate to have a crusader, Stephen Fox,
to carry this issue to the highest level, the
Environmental Improvement Board.

Now, due to corporate pressure, everything is
delayed for at least a year, and probably doomed to
oblivion.

This fearful board has the opportunity to move on
this issue but, instead, has obstructed a signficant
public-health initiative.

Let's face it -- this is not about politics or
corporate power; it is about our children and their
health.

Don't forget.

George R. Schwartz, M.D. Santa Fe
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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

"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 150 members, 1,281 posts in a public,
searchable archive
http://RoomForAll.blogspot.com
http://AspartameNM.blogspot.com
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By Verna Hutchinson (Submitted: 01/16/2006 6:30 pm )

A couple a comments and then I quit. One of my daughters-in-law
wouldn't let her son drink sodas sweetened with aspartame because of
the early warnings put out on it - it was not to be given to anyone under
the age of 5. I mis-stated the "storage" of sodas in my previous post -
it should have said that the cola needed to be stored in a "cooler"
temperature to prevent the aspartame from turning into a poison.

As to Stevia - I got some at the local health food store and it was
expensive, but also, it was supposed to only take a drop or two to
sweeten your glass of tea, and I used so much that it changed the taste
of the tea - AND STILL WASN'T SWEET!!


So - back to Sweet'n Low, cheaper, dependable and I'm almost
"hooked" on the taste of it again.

By Jim Aamodt (Submitted: 01/16/2006 5:47 pm )

Excellent post Gumby.

By Michael Tincher (Submitted: 01/16/2006 5:42 pm )

Masterful Sir Gumby! Chubby Checker would be proud. Except for
the troubles with his house in New Orleans, he would probably personally
write and congratulate you.

I am a little miffed to get only 63 claps, but just a little clap will have
to be enough.

Still not very funny, though it did raise the level of the discourse.

By "gumby" mil (Submitted: 01/16/2006 5:24 pm )

and i'll say it again. if it weren't for panophobians, there wouldn't be a
problem with aspartame.

By "gumby" mil (Submitted: 01/16/2006 5:15 pm )

i have been waiting for this;

michael tincher wrote; "... on conspiracies to defraud ... on the scale of
tobacco and potentially aspartame ... must be challenged to get...
closer to the truth."

there you have it.

ole tincher himself has now officially said that the lack of investigation
into the dangers of aspartame is a consipiracy to defraud
[the american public]...

i have been wondering who the idiot would be to officially equate this
(no pun intended) to a conspiracy by the gov't just like the hiding of the
ALIENS were.... in]

you believe in aliens too mister tincher???

LOL

"ooOOooOooo.. mister tincher.. ALIENS.. ooOOOoOoO...."

michael tincher believes in ALIENS, THE EASTER BUNNY, and he
believes in the gov't conspiring to fraud the american public of the truth
about aspartame. i'm impressed! everyone?
let's here if for mister tincher.

clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap!

clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap!

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well done mister tincher!!!!


By Michael Tincher (Submitted: 01/16/2006 4:38 pm )

Give it rest Aamodt, you are beginning to sound like you have water
on the brain. I suspect that such edema may be the result of aspartame
poisoning; taken either orally or visually.

By Jim Aamodt (Submitted: 01/16/2006 4:21 pm )

BTW Becky, there is dihydrogen monoxide in diet soda as well.
Was that possibly the real cause of that lady's blackouts
or was it aspartame?

By Beckie Cobos (Submitted: 01/16/2006 3:53 pm )

I say again: There would be no problem if there was no aspartame

By Jim Aamodt (Submitted: 01/16/2006 3:52 pm )

I love how the alarmists react to serious inquiry. David asked if it was
possible that drinking 2 liters plus of aspartame sweetened soda
caused the blackouts and if drinking a normal amount was ok.
Becky's response was, "Why not put aspartame in everything
we eat and drink since it's already in over 6000 products."

Becky, just about any substance natural or man-made can cause
negative health effects. We have had many discussions in this forum
about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, for instance,
and the bottom line is that caution and moderation is the key.
Abuse of anything is dangerous.

I don't know why you are so upset with aspartame when dihydrogen
monoxide has harmed literally millions more people. Don't believe me?

http://xtronics.com/reference/dihydrogen-monoxide .htm

Get you priorities straight, Becky.

By David Lopez (Submitted: 01/16/2006 3:09 pm )

Becky, I am very serious.

Is aspartame the problem or is it aspartame abuse?

Really, what does one expect, slamming down all that diet soda?

With every breath I take, I suck poisonous Carbon monoxide into my
lungs. The level of Carbon monoxide in the air is tolerated by my body,
and I suffer no ill effects.

When I drink a diet soda, or give my child chewable motrin... in other
words, when I am reasonable with my aspartame intake, can my body
deal with the formaldehyde before it makes me sick, or is formaldehyde
as poisonous as Plutonium or Dioxin, any amount being toxic and/or
lethal?

After reading Pamela's post it is reasonable to assume that she abused
aspartame, taking it in faster than her body couse deal with it,
thus making herself sick.

In short, she overdosed on aspartame. There really is a difference
between dosing and overdosing. Two tylenol may be a dose, 20 will fry
your liver; 1 diet soda is a dose, 2 liters cause black-outs.

So, really, what may be needed is education regarding how to prevent
overdosing on aspartame, assuming that some usage may be safe.

By Beckie Cobos (Submitted: 01/16/2006 2:27 pm )

David:

You can't be serious? Why not put aspartame in everything we eat and
drink since it's already in over 6000 products.
Why not add it to our bath water, laundry, gardens..oh the insanity!

You act as if you condone eating and drinking formaldehyde.

Let's get it through our heads already -

There would be no poisoning of formaldehyde if there was no
formaldehyde in our products to begin with.

Diet soda as you well know is not the only product out there containing
aspartame, yet, you act like it is.

By David Lopez (Submitted: 01/16/2006 12:43 pm )

12 oz can. I know I hit the "2"

By David Lopez (Submitted: 01/16/2006 12:33 pm )

Pamela, that has been my point all this time. Are there ill effects from
consuming a "normal" amount of aspartame?

2 liters or more of diet coke seems to be an excessive amount. You may
have taken more aspartame, more quickly, into your body, than your
body could get rid of, thus you poisoned yourself with the formaldehyde
by-product.

This probably doesn't happen to the person who drinks one 1 oz can of
diet soda a day. What they take in can be dealt with with no ill effects.
They don't build up formaldehyde levels to dangerous levels by drinking
only that one diet soda.

Is aspartame the problem, or is abuse of aspartame the real problem??

By Pamela Roosma (Submitted: 01/16/2006 12:17 pm )

I have been off of aspartame now for over two months and my
promblems of blacking out have disappeared.
I wish I could meet some of these people who disbelieve and turn them
into believers.
I consumed 2 liters of Diet Coke or Pepsi a day if not more.
Maybe some of us around that are effected from aspartame poisoning
realize it sooner than later, but at least we have realized it at all.

My promblem was extreme and it has disapeared ever since I stopped
drinking diet sodas and stopped eatting aspartame in any form.
My husband and people around me can't see anything else that I have
done different except for stop taking in aspartame.
No body else can explain it except for that the aspartame I was
ingesting was interfering with the medications I was taking
from working to their full effect.

By Maria Leyba (Submitted: 01/16/2006 11:43 am )

I know it has saccharin Mr. Streeper.
I am old enough to remember all the hoopla regarding the rats with
cancer and such.
I was one of those loyal TAB drinkers in the late 70's and early 80's.
I remember the drops and little saccharin pills my parents used to dump
in their coffee in the AM before we all left for school and work.

I don't drink or eat anything with Splenda because I don't like it.
But I am far too old to stop using Sweet and Low.
I need something for my iced tea.
As for coffee, I use real sugar, nothing else.
I know the risks, I can make my own choices.

As for Stevia (which I have heard of), where I live in the nick of the
woods in NM, it would be cheaper to have it flown in. LOL!!
I know it would take the USPS at least a year to get it here.

By Charles Streeper (Submitted: 01/16/2006 11:21 am )

Maria, Sweet and Low has saccharin and has been known to cause
Cancer. I think the only trully safe product mentioned is Stevia,
but only expensive stores like Whole Foods tend to offer it.

By Maria Leyba (Submitted: 01/16/2006 9:28 am )

Jim have you seen Big Tobacco go out of business yet?
COCA-COLA Will NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS. NEVER.
THEY ARE GLOBAL AND HAVE THE ASSETS AND
ATTORNEYS TO FIGHT ALL LAWSUITS IN REGARDS TO
ASPARTAME. DO BE NAIVE.

Splenda is bad for you, but like Ann, I still drink Sweet and Low.
It doesn't taste all that great,but it does the job (take the place of
sugar).

By Bill Green (Submitted: 01/16/2006 9:24 am )

What I believe Michael is that groups of people look at the tobacco
lawsuits and see dollars if they can work up a frenzy over their cause.
Is there a danger in tobacco use? Absolutely.
Have people been told of this danger? Absolutely, again.
The term "coffin nails" goes back to at least the 30's.
But they can still manage to get millions in lawsuits.
The wackos are looking at this and seeing dollar signs.
If they can convince juries of their ideas, there's money to be mined.
What I'm saying is that there are people like Mr. Fox who can take
a legal, legitimate health hazard and try to connect it to anything
and everything. A diet Dew is not a Camel.

By Ann Thibodeaux (Submitted: 01/16/2006 9:02 am )

I am surprised no one has mentioned Stevia as a sugar alternative.
Supposedly very safe - I think it is an herb.
I use it in tea and coffee and cannot drink diet sodas
as the taste gags me so I drink the real McCoy with lots of sugar
and sodium and whatever else is not healthy, but not very often.

By Michael Tincher (Submitted: 01/16/2006 8:54 am )

Mr. Green: Is it that you do not believe that collections of people
would enrich themselves knowingly at the expense of the health of
others or that you believe that "buyer beware"
should be the only principle of protection?
If it is the former, then you are naïve and need a history lesson;
and if the latter, you need more general education so to recognize
the impossibility of consumers being even remotely current
on material science and chemical additives.

The legal system and Mr. Fox's efforts are designed for just such
occasions. Funny (not ha ha, but ironic) that you would compare to
tobacco, the 'poster child' of knowingly selling a dangerous substance
and the abuse of power to hide it.

I would agree that it is foolish to fixate on the dangers of the world,
but conspiracies to defraud (and as a consequence, harm) on the scale
of tobacco and potentially aspartame (and other additives, materials and
pollutants) must be challenged, if for no other reason
to get past corporate hype, public hysteria and closer to the truth.

By Jim Aamodt (Submitted: 01/16/2006 8:29 am )

That's right Bill Green. Here come the lawsuits like big tobacco lawsuits.
I doubt that the soda makers have the money to recover from that and
we will all be forced to drink water and lemonade again.

By Michael Tincher (Submitted: 01/16/2006 7:41 am )

And Mr. Gumby, I heard about through a friend of an acquaintance's
bother-in-law's cousin that some guy eat aspartame and ended up so
addled that he constantly wrote drivel to an on-line newspaper comment
board and thought it was funny. He even "drew" pictures to express his
mood - now that part I thought was funny.

By Bill Green (Submitted: 01/16/2006 7:20 am )

"Big Tobacco>>>>>>lung cancer, emphysema>>>>$235 billion in
judgments

Big Aspartame>>>>>neurodegenerative diseases>>>>?
in judgements."

Mr Fox says it all, look out folks, here come the lawsuits. And if you
can get enough people to believe (as some here seem to), you can win.
Last I heard, if you drink too much water, you drown, maybe we should
ban water.

By Charles Streeper (Submitted: 01/16/2006 1:01 am )

Amazing 78 comments and counting on an Aspartame article.
I never even knew this was an issue until now, thanks,
I will avoid it just in case...

By "gumby" mil (Submitted: 01/16/2006 1:00 am )

i once knew someone that knew a friend of a friend who saw someone
get killed by a truck delivering aspartame to a grocery store..

it must have been horrible...

:|

and then there was this one guy i did know.
well, not directly, i read about him.. but he worked at a store and
dropped a dropped a box of aspartame on his foot.
i don't think he died though.. i think he just broke his foot.

but i agree folks... it could have been worse...

much.. much.. worse.


By Linda Bence (Submitted: 01/16/2006 12:12 am )

My grandfather passed away at the age of 96. I don't believe that he ever
had an artificial sweetner in his life.
Our family believed in meat, lots of it, mostly very rare as well as
homemade rich desserts with butter and cream.

My grandfather worked his entire life,
not because he had to but because he liked the challenge
and needed to be active.
He had over $2 million in assets when he passed.

He was a naval architect and then owned several manufacturing
companies. He was very personable and really enjoyed sales.
He drove up until he was 94.
Massachusetts refused to pull his license
because he had never had an accident.
When he was 91, he won salesman of the year for a company
that sold promotional advertising materials, calendars, pencils, etc.
He was constantly winning trips for his sales and my grandmother
just didn't want to travel anymore in her 90's.

So, if he never had any artificial sweetners, what can you blame his
Parkinson's on? No one wants to take personal responsibility for their
own actions. They all want to have someone to blame so that the can file
a lawsuit.

SO--- why is it that the only ailment he had was Parkinson's that he
contracted in his 50's?

By Jim Aamodt (Submitted: 01/15/2006 11:15 pm )

I'm sure they hate it too, David. I love Spenda and I go out of my
way to buy soda sweetened with Splenda rather than NutraSweet.
I'm just waiting for the other show to drop on Splenda as well
and since I have no idea what to believe medically anymore
I won't believe it either.

By David Lopez (Submitted: 01/15/2006 10:04 pm )

In other words, Splenda?

By David Lopez (Submitted: 01/15/2006 10:04 pm )

I wonder what the anti-aspartame crowd think about sucralose,
that chloride substituted carbohydrate that is 700 times sweeter than
sucrose and yields no calories because there are no human enzymes
to aid in its digestion, thus it passes undigested right through the gut?

By Beckie Cobos (Submitted: 01/15/2006 8:27 pm )

"Why don't we ban all alcohol from New Mexico?
Take beer and liquor off store shelves."

Last time I checked, 'aspartame' wasn't isolated in it's own section
in the supermarket, with an age requirement against minors purchasing
the products.

Last time I checked 'aspartame' was readily available to children,
via vending machines at schools and other locations and events centers
children often frequent.

"What will Steven Fox target next, chips, cookies, ice cream,
meat, non-organic vegetables?"

What some people don't realize is if chips, cookies, ice cream and these
other foods contain aspartame and a lot of them do, then, Stephen Fox
already is targeting them.

Why don't we remove the blinders and learn to see the truth before us?
Why don't we all open our ears and give the victims of this legal poison
the benefit of the doubt? They are after all the ones who have lived with
their diseases, some for years?

Why don't we all do something about this while we have an open
window of opportunity and are still physically able to do so?

Why don't we all face facts and fears and stop trying to blame the
victims who have already suffered enough and try to get help for them
and others who have no clue what they are doing to their bodies
by eating and drinking this stuff?

I am tired of being told I am abridging the rights of others, for simply
exercising my own rights to speak up and do something about this.

The reason some people can't eat nuts is due to allergies, aspartame
poisoning far exceeds an allergy.

Why don't we all credit the victims of aspartame poisoning with the
knowledge of their own personal experiences? They are the ones who
have been medically tested and told what the cause of their illnesses were.

In other words...They KNOW what they are talking about. They know
how they have suffered and they care enough to not want anyone else
to go through it.

Don't you?

"It is time for the government to leave us alone to make a few decisions
for ourselves."

People don't always make the right decisions for themselves but if they
weren't aware that if they walk off the edge of a cliff that they would fall
to injury or certain death, people would all be walking off cliffs on a
regular basis. The same for driving vehicles and so forth.

Awareness is key, and people should be given the honest opportunity to
choose what is best or healthiest for consumption. How can people make
an honest choice of what to eat if they don't know the harm involved in
eating something with aspartame.


By Verna Hutchinson (Submitted: 01/15/2006 7:44 pm )

Back before Aspartame, we only had saccahrin to sweeten foods/drinks
and it was used by diabetics and folks trying to control their weight.
Then, out came aspartame and they declared that Sweet 'n Low caused
cancer in rats (at 50xs the amount that a human would consume in a day).

At that time, we were told that if we bought drinks that contained
aspartame, they had to be kept at a temperature high enough to prevent
the aspartame from turning into a poison.

Hot dog!! I never gave up on the Sweet'n Low because I had, at that
time, friends who had been using saccaharin as a sweetener for 60 years
(plus) and they had had no side effects from its' use.

Recently, I started using Splenda,
but then discovered that it is "chemically altered" to remove the calories,
so I decided that it was time to go back to Sweet'n Low.

It has taken me awhile to get used to the taste again, but at least I know
that I can trust it not to kill me - unless I turn into a rat and ingest
50xs the
adult dosage for a day.

Ah, progress, one step forward and three back - it's worse than politics.

By Steven Wright (Submitted: 01/15/2006 7:36 pm )

I can understand how upsetting it is to hear this chemical is being
attacked. I sure liked my diet dp.

Cold and fizzy, tastes like the original, no sugary aftertaste,
I can feel it now...

Anyway, it was years ago I started hearing things about the sweetener,
I heard... things. Still, didn't matter I don't drink that much. Those rats
were probably overdosed anyway

But when someone I know was fighting chemical poisoning from things
in their diet, I started looking into these things.

As it was denyed by the FDA several years before somehow becoming
accepted. The FDA filed charges against the makers of this chemical for
something like fraud in their attempt to get passed. This chemical does not
at face value pass muster for a food additive so what gives?

Money gives. Political influence gives too. And more money.

Its right there for those who choose to see.

history of aspertame approval by fda (google it)

It's not so much that I am sick, I tend to eat healthy anyway. Not too
much sugar in any case. Avoid that hydrogenated stuff.

If you live long enough, you will wish you had taken better care of
yourself.

But that this was approved by our trusted FDA, that is upsetting.
They did it before when they allowed chemicals in cigarettes I think.
Have you ever read the list of them? They could cause cancer I bet.
Tobacco never saw it coming.

Now there is the viox thing, or some number of questionable drugs
on the market.
Don't think just because it is "approved" means that much anymore.

Thats really what upsets me. You really do expect your taxes to go to
something worthwhile.

But no, we are on are own. We the people.

Now I am without that fuzzy high as I choose to avoid this product.

But those anoying headaches are gone now.

And it is only right that they are stopped, the FDA themselves said this
was dangerous. It's been proven, you saw the studies.

How does that saying go? Ignore, Attack, Deny, .. something like that.

thats ok, trust no one I always say. Get some evidence.

It would save us a lot of time if we huried to acceptance. the evidence
is there everywhere except from the people who finance this product.
That alone should tell ya.

I applaud NM for taking this on.

By D Mulberry (Submitted: 01/15/2006 7:24 pm )

Regular sodas...yes even Blue Sky with its carbos and sugar...will cause
obesity...diabetics...heart disease..high blood pressure...so let's ban all
sodas...even Blue Sky
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January 17, 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 2006.01.13

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

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1279
all three aspartame metabolites harm human erythrocyte [red blood cell]
membrane enzyme activity, KH Schulpis et al, two studies in 2005,
Athens, Greece, 2005.12.14: 2004 research review, RL Blaylock:
Murray 2006.01.14

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, 1,282 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/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: Murray 2004.08.08 2005.07.11

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/835
ATSDR: EPA limit 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water July
1999: Murray 2002.05.30 rmforall

Aspartame is made of phenylalanine (50% by weight) and
aspartic acid (39%), both ordinary amino acids, bound
loosely together by methanol (wood alcohol, 11%).
The readily released methanol from aspartame is within hours
turned by the liver into formaldehyde and then formic acid,
both potent, cumulative toxins.

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
[ Any scientist can get access to this data for free by submitting a proper
research proposal.
No one has admitted mining the extensive data on diet soda use
and many symptoms for decades for about 100,000 nurses. ]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1213
aspartame (methanol, phenylalanine, aspartic acid) effects, detailed
expert studies in 2005 Aug and 1998 July, Tsakiris S, Schulpis KH,
Karikas GA, Kokotos G, Reclos RJ, et al,
Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece: Murray 2005.09.09

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/939
aspartame (aspartic acid, phenylalanine) binding to DNA:
Karikas July 1998: Murray 2003.01.05 rmforall
Karikas GA, Schulpis KH, Reclos GJ, Kokotos G
Measurement of molecular interaction of aspartame and
its metabolites with DNA. Clin Biochem 1998 Jul; 31(5): 405-7.
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece
http://www.chem.uoa.gr gkokotos@...
K.H. Schulpis inchildh@... G.J. Reclos reklos@...

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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

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eyelid contact dermatitis by formaldehyde from aspartame,
AM Hill & DV Belsito, Nov 2003: Murray 2004.03.30

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. toxicology@...
Sam-1 Trust, Alto, New Mexico, USA.
http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehyde_embryo_toxicity.html full text

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DMDC: Dimethyl dicarbonate 200mg/L in drinks adds
methanol 98 mg/L [ becomes formaldehyde in body ]: EU Scientific
Committee on Foods 2001.07.12: Murray 2004.01.22

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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

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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 2006.01.13

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fructose in rats increases uric acid, obesity, insulin resistance,
endothelial damage -- RJ Johnson et al, U. Florida: Murray 2005.12.07
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hangover research relevant to toxicity of 11% methanol in
aspartame (formaldehyde, formic acid): Calder I (full text):
Jones AW: Murray 2004.08.05 2005.09.28

Since no adaquate data has ever been published on the exact
disposition of toxic metabolites in specific tissues in
humans of the 11% methanol component of aspartame, the many
studies on morning-after hangover from the methanol impurity
in alcohol drinks are the main available resource to date.

Jones AW (1987) found next-morning hangover from red wine
with 100 to 150 mg methanol (9.5% w/v ethanol, 100 mg/L
methanol, 0.01%, one part in ten thousand).

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Joining together: short review: research on aspartame
methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid) toxicity: Murray
2005.07.08 rmforall

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research on aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid)
toxicity: Murray2004.04.29 rmforall

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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

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USA National Institutes of Health National Toxicology
Program aids eminent Ramazzini Foundation, Bologna, Italy,
in more results on cancers in rats from lifetime low levels
of aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde), Felicity Lawrence,
www.guardian.co.uk: Murray 2005.09.30

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aspartame induces lymphomas and leukaemias in rats, full plain text,
M Soffritti, F Belpoggi, DD Esposti, L Lambertini: Ramazzini
Foundation study 2005.07.14: main results agree with their previous
methanol and formaldehyde studies: Murray 2005.09.03

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Michael F Jacobson of CSPI now and in 1985 re aspartame
toxicity, letter to FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford;
California OEHHA aspartame critique 2004.03.12; Center for
Consumer Freedom denounces CSPI: Murray 2005.07.27

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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
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critique of aspartame review, French Food Safety Agency AFSSA
2002.05.07 aspartamgb.pdf (18 pages, in English), Martin Hirsch:
Murray 2004.04.13

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safety of aspartame Part 1/2 12.4.2: EC HCPD-G SCF,
EU Scientific Committee on Food, a whitewash; Murray 2003.01.12

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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://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame mgold@...
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2100
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"

Gold points out that industry methanol assays were too insensitive to
properly measure blood methanol levels. ]

http://www.eatright.org/Nutritive(1).pdf
J Am Diet Assoc. 2004 Feb; 104(2): 255-75.
Position of the American Dietetic Association: use of nutritive and
nonnutritive sweeteners. American Dietetic Association.

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critique of aspartame review by American Dietetic Association
Feb 2004, Valerie B. Duffy & Madeleine J. Sigman-Grant:
Murray 2004.05.14

"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

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www.dorway.com: original documents and long reviews of flaws in
aspartame toxicity research: Murray 2002.07.31

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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.
Accountability in Research 1999; 6: 259-310. 52-page review
P.O. Box 2532 Darien, Illinois 60561
858-481-9333 adandjack@...

http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt
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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
approval: Turner: Murray 2002.12.23 rmforall
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Aspartame: Bill would ban food containing sweetener [in New Mexico]:
Diana Heil, The New Mexican: 69 citizen comments:
Murray 2006.01.15

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NM EIB votes 7-0 to delay 5-day aspartame hearing until Jan 2007,
Diana Heil, The New Mexican: comment by Stephen Fox:
Murray 2006.01.04

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citizens against aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde), made by
Ajinomoto, at Jan 3 hearing of NM EIB in Santa Fe: Lehrman:
Murray 2006.01.01

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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson endorses Nutrition Council,
mercury ban, aspartame hearings: Lehrman, Fox, Stoller:
Murray 2005.12.27

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Aspartame and Thimerosal getting banned in New Mexico
by the Pharmacy Board? with notes by Rich Murray: 2005.11.15

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Aspartame quagmire quickly deepens, methanol (formaldehyde, formic
acid) toxicity facts spreading at the grassroots level,
3 items in The New Mexican,
and long article in Vanity Fair by Rich Cohen: Murray 2005.11.15

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Fox, Stoller, Murray to give Citizen's Petition
to ban aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) and mercury
in children's medicines and vitamins: New Mexico Board of Pharmacy,
2:45-3:45 pm Monday Nov. 14, Albuquerque: Murray 2005.11.13

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NM EIB votes 4-2 for 5-day aspartame toxicity hearing July,
2006, requesting a Hearing Officer and a medical expert from
Environmental Dept. and legal advice from NM Attorney
General: Murray 2005.10.04
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