soft drinks Pepsi and Coke banned in some Indian cities --
aspartame is one of many toxins cited: KAZINFORM
www.inform.kz : Murray 2006.08.06
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1363

"Delhi government has also banned the sale of soft drinks in schools....

The court reacted to a public lawsuit which argued products
sold by both the firms were deeply laced with harmful chemicals
such as phosphoric acid, caffeine and aspartame."

http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=143763

05.08.2006 / 12:20 Soft drinks Pepsi and Coke
banned in some Indian cities

NEW DELHI. August 5, 2006. KAZINFORM --
Rajasthan yesterday banned the sale of soft drinks
as the country's highest court told the US beverage giants
Pepsico and Coca-Cola to reveal the ingredients of their products.

"The ban will be in force in all educational institutes,
including medical and technical colleges and universities,
and offenders would be punished,"
said a Rajasthan government spokesman;
KAZINFORM is quoting Nilofar Suhrawardy for The Arab News.

He argued that soft drinks producers were required
to print statutory warnings on their products.

"Manufacturers are required to print
'not only dangerous for human consumption,
but also the quantity of the residues, if any, on each label,'"
said spokesman K. Tiwari.

The Press Trust of India said the Punjab state assembly also
removed soft drinks from the menu of its lawmakers beginning yesterday.

"The restriction will remain in force until the controversy
regarding harmful ingredients in soft drinks is cleared,"
said Assembly Secretary Nachhattar Singh Mavi.

Delhi government has also banned the sale of soft drinks in schools.

Federal MPs on Thursday demanded
a nationwide ban on Pepsi and Coke
after the privately-funded Center for Science and Environment (CSE)
said 11 drinks sold by the two US companies
contained unacceptable doses of pesticides.

Chhattisgarh Food Minister Nankiram Kanwar (Bharatiya Janata Party)
said in Raipur:
"It is surprising that millions of Indians are wasting money everyday
on drinking pesticides. There must be a ban on such soft drink companies.
The state government will educate masses
that cold drinks contain pesticides."

Campaigning against cola drinks,
Congress Party General Secretary Ramesh Varlyani said:
"The Congress seeks an immediate ban on the sale of adulterated
cold drinks and appeal people to stay away from consuming them."

On Thursday, hundreds of Youth Congress activists
attacked a bottling plant of Pepsi Co. in Urla,
on the outskirts of Raipur,
ransacking the plant and crushing thousands of Pepsi bottles.
Though the police have registered offenses against Congress members,
the party said it will continue its campaign against soft drink companies.

A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, meanwhile,
gave the two firms a month
to reveal the ingredients of their products,
officials said.

The court reacted to a public lawsuit which argued products
sold by both the firms were deeply laced with harmful chemicals
such as phosphoric acid, caffeine and aspartame.

Pepsico and Coca-Cola have rejected the CSE's report,
saying customers' interests were their paramount concern.

The Indian Soft Drink Manufacturers Association
has said Pepsico and Coca-Cola are safe to consume.
The two companies are members of this association.
"The soft drinks manufactured in India
comply with stringent international norms
and all applicable national regulations,"
the industry body said in a statement.
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unexamined diet research cofactors:
formaldehyde from tobacco and wood smoke,
it also forms from methanol in dark wines and liquors
and 11% methanol part of aspartame: Murray 2006.08.06


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340
aspartame groups and books: updated research review of 2004.07.16:
Murray 2006.05.11


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1341
Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy Barnes,
New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1353
carcinogenic effect of inhaled formaldehyde, Federal Institute of Risk
Assessment, Germany -- same safe level as for Canada:
Murray 2006.06.02

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1352
Home sickness -- indoor air often worse, as our homes seal in pollutants
[one is formaldehyde, also from the 11% methanol part of aspartame],
Megan Gillis, WinnipegSun.com: Murray 2006.06.01


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

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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

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1349
NIH NLM ToxNet HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank
inadequate re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid):
Murray 2006.08.06

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/f?./temp/~HwoSfJ:1
HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank: Aspartame

ASPARTAME CASRN: 22839-47-0
METHANOL CASRN: 67-56-1
FORMALDEHYDE CASRN: 50-00-0
FORMIC ACID CASRN: 64-18-6

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1307
formaldehyde from 11% methanol part of aspartame or from red wine
causes same toxicity (hangover) harm: Murray 2006.05.24

Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide
similar levels of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for
long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans.

Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes 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.

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.

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"
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