aspartame seller Merisant has worse sales and assets, with more losses, since
2004: Gold: Murray 2007.07.04
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1449


From: E Bryant Holman bryanth@... 2007.07.04 8:03 am
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/ List Owner
1,050 members, 20,946 posts since 1998.12.31

If anyone here happens to be a member of the Activist List, they should forward
this to that group.
I was banned by the owner for spurious reasons, and he claims to be an aspartame
activist, too!

----- Original Message -----
From: E Bryant Holman
To: aspartame@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Activist_List@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:59 AM
Subject: [Aspartame Support] Aspartame seller hit financially by slowing sales

This is a bulletin from Mark Gold, a leading aspartame researcher.

This article is a good indication of the success we have had in making people
aware of aspartame dangers.
Gold's website, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/, is the leading aspartame
site, getting the most hits on the internet, and listed at the top of the search
engines for that reason.
He has a link to our support group's page on his site.

Gold is the person who investigated and reported that the board that was set up
by the European Union to evaluate the first Ramazinni Institute report on
aspartame safety actually consisted of people working for aspartame related
industries -- although this caused some embarrassment for them, they simply
issued, in the end, a pronouncement that their obviously corrupt ties would have
no bearing on their decision making process!

Bryant

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Gold" <mgold@...>
To: <carolguilford@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:36 PM
Subject: Merisant Financials Update & Opinion

Merisant Financials Update & Opinion
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Merisant markets the slow poison, aspartame, to
consumers under the brand names:
Equal,
Canderel (Europe),
Misura/Mivida (Italy),
Sucaryl (Argentina, Mexico)
and Chuker (Argentina).

Net Sales
---------
Year Sales
2004 $347,700,000
2005 $304,964,000 (12% decrease)
2006 $293,900,000 (4% decrease)

2007 1st Quarter sales is down compared to
the 1st Quarter of 2006.

2007 1st Quarter sales down 3% in North America;
8% in Europe/Middle East;
17% in Latin America.

Decreases partially offset by 88% increase in sales in Asia/Pacific
-- primarily Australia and India.

Sales in Asia/Pacific are still small,
but they had an increase due to new distributor agreements.

Net Gains/Losses
----------------
Year Amount
2004 -$18,544,000 (Net Loss)
2005 -$17,150,000 (Net Loss)
2006 -$52,161,000 (Net Loss)

2007 1st Quarter Net Loss was $12,072,000.

Total Current Assets (Cash, Inventories, Accounts Receivable, etc.)
--------------------
Year Assets
2004 $133,826,000
2005 $128,630,000
2006 $119,208,000
2007 $112,216,000 (1st Quarter)

Total Assets (including property, trademarkets, etc.)
------------
Year Assets
2004 $535,574,000
2005 $500,225,000
2006 $452,117,000
2007 $436,158,000 (1st Quarter)

Total Liabilities
-----------------
Year Liabilities
2004 $651,031,000
2005 $635,915,000
2006 $638,503,000
2007 $628,377,000 (1st Quarter)

As of July 2, 2007, Merisant's license agreement
with NutraSweet was terminated according to year
10K Form filed in 2007. This means that Merisant
can no longer sell products using the NutraSweet
trade name.

Merisant is selling their "natural" sweetener,
"Sweet Simplicity" at Wild Oats, Whole Foods Market, and other natural foods
stores.
Unfortunately, purchasing their natural sweetener
helps fund their sale of poison (in the form of aspartame)
throughout the world.

Summary
--------------
Net Sales dropping every year.
Net Losses increasing every year.
Assets declining every year.
Liabilities staying nearly the same (declining very slightly).

As information about aspartame toxicity continues
to be shared, Merisant will hopefully stop selling
poison to consumers and focus on non-toxic products.

Mark Gold
Aspartame/NutraSweet Toxicity Info Center
12 East Side Dr., #2-17
Concord, NH 03301
603-225-2110
mgold@...
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"

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 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
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http://RMForAll.blogspot.com

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1448
Sweet Misery -- A Poisoned World, free full 90 minute video
on aspartame toxicity, Cori Brackett, Sound and Fury Productions Inc.,
video.google.com: Murray 2007.07.04

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1443
Safe Food Campaign wants ban on aspartame in schools in New Zealand:
Murray 2007.06.21

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1442
Wellington, NZ lady, 25, free by 24 hours of severe muscle cramps (5
months) after quitting 4-8 packs daily aspartame chewing gum (past few
years): Murray 2007.06.20

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1441
Lifetime exposure to low doses of aspartame beginning during prenatal
life increases cancer effects in rats, Morando Soffritti et al,
European Ramazzini Foundation, USA EPA Environmental Health
Perspectives 2007.06.13 free full text 24 pages: Murray 2007.06.16

www.ehponline.org/members/2007/10271/10271.pdf free full text 24
pages

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1437
stevia to be approved and cyclamates limited by Food Standards
Australia New Zealand: JMC Geuns critiques of two recent stevia
studies by Nunes: Murray 2007.05.29

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1427
more from The Independent, UK, Martin Hickman, re ASDA
(unit of Wal-Mart Stores) and Marks & Spencer ban of aspartame,
MSG, artificial chemical additives and dyes to prevent ADHD in kids:
Murray 2007.05.16
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2548747.ece

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1426
ASDA (unit of Wal-Mart Stores WMT.N) and Marks & Spencer
will join Tesco and also Sainsbury to ban and limit aspartame,
MSG, artificial flavors dyes preservatives additives, trans fats,
salt "nasties" to protect kids from ADHD: leading UK media:
Murray 2007.05.15

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/1277
50% UK baby food is now organic -- aspartame or MSG
with food dyes harm nerve cells, CV Howard 3 year study
funded by Lizzy Vann, CEO, Organix Brands,
Children's Food Advisory Service: Murray 2006.01.13

formaldehyde as a potent unexamined cofactor in cancer research --
sources include methanol, dark wines and liquors, aspartame, wood and
tobacco smoke: IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks
to Humans implicate formaldehyde in #88 and alcohol drinks in #96:
some related abstracts: Murray 2007.05.15
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1417

aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity research summary:
Rich Murray 2007.06.16
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1404

One liter aspartame diet soda, about 3 12-oz cans,
gives 61.5 mg methanol,
so if 30% is turned into formaldehyde, the formaldehyde
dose of 18.5 mg is 37 times the recent EPA limit of
0.5 mg per liter daily drinking water for a 10-kg child:
www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/Formaldehyde_summary.pdf
2007.01.05 [ does not discuss formaldehyde from methanol
or aspartame ]
http://www.epa.gov/teach/teachsurvey.html comments
teach@...

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/1395
Aspartame Controversy, in Wikipedia democratic
encyclopedia, 72 references (including AspartameNM # 864
and 1173 by Murray), brief fair summary of much more
research: Murray 2007.01.01

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.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1286
methanol products (formaldehyde and formic acid) are main
cause of alcohol hangover symptoms [same as from similar
amounts of methanol, the 11% part of aspartame]:
YS Woo et al, 2005 Dec: Murray 2006.01.20

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/aspartameNMmessage/1447
second study by expert Greek team of neurotoxicity in infant rats by
aspartame (or its parts, methanol, phenylalanine, aspartic acid), KH
Schulpis et al, Toxicology 2007.05.18: Murray 2007.07.04

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1444
expert Greek group finds aspartame (or its parts, methanol,
phenylalanine, aspartic acid) harm infant rat brain enzyme activity,
KH Schulpis et al, Pharmacol. Res. 2007.05.13: Murray 2007.06.23
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