how to send aspartame info to Hawaii House of Representatives Health
Committee for 8 AM Friday Feb. 8 session: Rich Murray 2008.02.06
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1510
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House Bill 2580, Room #329, 8 AM Friday:

Honorable Rep. Josh Green, M.D.
and Honorable John Mizuno, Vice Chair:

Please copy as committee handout for this hearing.

repgreen@...; repmizuno@...;

repcarroll@...; repbelatti@...;
repbertram@...; repcabanilla@...;
reprhoads@...; reptokioka@...;
repward@...;

Medical researchers:

christopher.derosa@...;
beppie@...;
vast@...;
sue.brown@...;
cneal@...;
robertb@...;
mariuehara@...;
laurie.seaver@...;
jstone@...;
skbrady@...;
dienviro@...;

Media:

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hawaii@...;
Tips@...;


The House Health Committee meets 8:00 A.M. Friday morning in Honolulu,
Hawaii. The aspartame ban is on their schedule.

Concerned, informed experts and aspartame reactors may help by attending,
testifying, or emailing reviews of research and case reports
by about noon Thursday, 6 PM EST.

You may write
the Honorable Rep. Josh Green, M.D., Chair repgreen@...
and Honorable Rep. John Mizuno, Vice Chair
repmizuno@...

The letter must have on the Subject line, House Bill 2580, the room number
#329, and 8 AM Friday, and also on the start of the text.
It should then say at the top of the text: "Please copy as committee
handout for this hearing."
Then it will be printed out to be read by the members of the Committee.

You may Blind Copy to the whole Health Committee, and to the Honorable Rep.
Mele Carroll repcarroll@...; --
who initiated the bill in the House.

In mutual service, Rich Murray

"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority, to enjoy peace,
joy, and love by helping to find, quickly share, and positively act
upon evidence 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/message/1469
highly toxic formaldehyde, the cause of alcohol hangovers, is made by
the body from 100 mg doses of methanol from dark wines and liquors,
dimethyl dicarbonate, and aspartame: Murray 2007.08.31

http://RMForAll.blogspot.com new primary archive

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
group with 119 members, 1,511 posts in a public archive
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www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/bills/HB2680_.htm

Report Title: Artificial Sweetener; Aspartame; Ban; Food
Description: Bans the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame in food
products.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H.B. NO. 2680
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to food.
[ identical to SB2506, text in full, below in this post ] ]


reps@...;sens@...;

Hawaii State Legislature
Hawaii State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/info/direct/sendir.asp all Senators
www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/info/direct/repdir.asp all Representatives


www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/search/billsearch.asp?query=aspartame&currpage=1

www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus2.asp?billno=HB2680

Bill Status HB2680 RSS Feed

Generated on 1/25/2008 1:42:09 AM
Measure Title: RELATING TO FOOD.
Report Title: Artificial Sweetener; Aspartame; Ban; Food
Description: Bans the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame in food
products.
Package: None
Companion:
Introducer(s): SAY (BR)
Current Referral:
HLT, EDB/CPC
Date Status Text
1/18/2008 H Pending introduction.
1/22/2008 H Introduced and Pass First Reading.
1/23/2008 H Referred to HLT, EDB/CPC, referral sheet 6

$ = Appropriation measure
ConAm = Constitutional Amendment


www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/house/comm/commHLT.asp
House Committee on Health HLT

HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE:

Josh Green, M.D., Chair
6th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 327
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605
E-mail repgreen@...;

John Mizuno, Vice-Chair
30th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 436
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6050; fax 808-586-6051
E-mail repmizuno@...;

Karen Leinani Awana
44th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 319
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8465; fax 808-586-8469
E-mail repawana@...;

Della Au Belatti
25th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 331
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-9425; fax 808-586-9431
email repbelatti@...;

Joe Bertram, III
11th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 311
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8525; fax 808-586-8529
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 68525
e-mail repbertram@...;

Rida T.R. Cabanilla
42nd Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 442
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6080; fax 808-586-6081
E-mail repcabanilla@...;

Karl Rhoads
28th Representive District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 326
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6180; fax 808-586-6189
e-mail reprhoads@...;

Maile S. L. Shimabukuro
Phone 808-586-8460, fax 808-586-8464
E-mail repshimabukuro@...;

James Kunane Tokioka
15th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 322
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6270; fax 808-586-6271
From Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66270
e-mail reptokioka@...;

Gene Ward, Ph.D.
17th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 318
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6420; fax 808-586-6421
E-mail repward@...;


www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/house/comm/commEDB.asp
House Committee on Economic Development & Business Concerns EDB

Kyle T. Yamashita, Chair
phone 808-586-6330; fax 808-586-6331
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66330
E-mail repyamashita@...;

Glenn Wakai, Vice-Chair
phone 808-586-6220; fax 808-586-6221
E-mail repwakai@...;

Lyla B. Berg, PhD
Phone 808-586-6510; fax 808-586-6511
email repberg@...;

Tom Brower
phone 808-586-8520; fax 808-586-8524
E-mail repbrower@...;

Jerry L. Chang
phone 808-586-6120; fax 808-586-6121
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 66120
e-mail repchang@...;

Faye P. Hanohano
phone 808-586-6530; fax 808-586-6531
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 66530
E-mail rephanohano@...;

Robert N. Herkes
phone 808-586-8400; fax 808-586-8404
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 68400
E-mail repherkes@...;

Joey Manahan
phone 808-586-6010; fax 808-586-6011
e-mail repmanahan@...;

Clift Tsuji
phone 808-586-8480; fax 808-586-8484
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 68480
E-mail reptsuji@...;

Ryan I. Yamane
phone 808-586-6150; fax 808-586-6151
E-mail repyamane@...;

Corinne W.L. Ching
phone 808-586-9415; fax 808-586-9421
E-mail repching@...;

Barbara C. Marumoto
phone 808-586-6310; fax 808-586-6311
E-mail repmarumoto@...;

repyamashita@...; repwakai@...;

repberg@...; repbrower@...;
repchang@...; rephanohano@...;
repherkes@...; repmanahan@...;
reptsuji@...; repyamane@...;
repching@...; repmarumoto@...;


www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/house/comm/commCPC.asp
House Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce CPC

Robert N. Herkes, Chair

Angus L.K. McKelvey, Vice-Chair
phone 808-586-6160; fax 808-586-6161
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66160
E-mail repmckelvey@...;

Cindy Evans
Phone 808-586-8510; fax 808-586-8514
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 68510
E-mail repevans@...;
Rep. Cindy Evan's Website

Josh Green

Ken Ito
phone 808-586-8470; fax 808-586-8474
E-mail repito@...;

Sylvia Luke
Phone 808-586-8530; fax 808-586-8534
email repluke@...;

Hermina M. Morita
phone 808-586-8435; fax 808-586-8437
From Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 68435
e-mail repmorita@...;

Alex M. Sonson
phone 808-586-6520; fax 808-586-6521
E-mail repsonson@...;

Joseph M. Souki
phone 808-586-9444; fax 808-586-9499
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 69444
E-mail repsouki@...;

Clift Tsuji

Ryan I. Yamane

Kyle T. Yamashita

Barbara C. Marumoto

Cynthia Thielen
phone 808-586-6480; fax 808-586-6481
E-mail repthielen@...;
Website http://www.cynthiathielen.com/

repmckelvey@...;

repito@...; repluke@...;
repmorita@...; repsonson@...;
repsouki@...; repthielen@...;
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www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus2.asp?billno=SB2506

Hawaii State Legislature
Bill Status SB2506 RSS Feed
Generated on 1/25/2008 1:49:29 AM
Measure Title: RELATING TO FOOD.
Report Title: Artificial Sweetener; Aspartame; Ban; Food
Description: Bans the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame in food
products.
Package: None
Companion:
Introducer(s): ENGLISH (BR)
Current Referral: HTH
Date Status Text
1/18/2008 S Introduced.
1/22/2008 S Passed First Reading.
1/22/2008 S Referred to HTH.

www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/senate/comm/commHTH.asp
Senate Committee on Health HTH

Committee on Health -- The purview of this committee includes those programs
relating to business regulation, professional and vocational licensing,
consumer protection, financial institutions, insurance
regulation; public utility regulation; and telecommunications
regulation; sustainability; housing development including affordable
housing, the landlord tenant code, condominium property regimes,
and leaseholds.

David Y. Ige, Chair
phone 808-586-6230; fax 808-586-6231
E-mail sendige@...;

Carol Fukunaga, Vice-Chair
phone 808-586-6890; fax 808-586-6899
e-mail: senfukunaga@...;

Rosalyn H. Baker
phone 808-586-6070; fax 808-586-6071
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66070
e-mail senbaker@...;

Ron Menor
phone 808-586-6740; fax 808-586-6829
e-mail senmenor@...;

Paul Whalen
phone 808-586-9385; fax 808-586-9391
From the Big Island,
toll free 974-4000 + 69385
e-mail senwhalen@...;

Report Title: Artificial Sweetener; Aspartame; Ban; Food

Description: Bans the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame in food
products.

THE SENATE S.B. NO. 2506
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to food.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds it is imperative for the public health,
safety and welfare to declare that aspartame and its derivative compounds,
in all of their trade names, are poisonous and deleterious food additives
due to their neurotoxic and carcinogenic metabolites.
The legislature finds that federal authorities have not intended to or
expressed an intention to occupy and preempt areas of concern regarding the
prohibition of toxic, neurotoxic, carcinogenic, poisonous
or deleterious food additives, and therefore the legislature may prohibit
the sale of products containing aspartame and its derivative compounds in
order to protect and ensure the public health, safety and welfare.
SECTION 2. Section 328-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a
new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Aspartame" means the artificial sweetener with the technical name
L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester."
SECTION 3. Section 328-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as
follows:
"'328-6 Prohibited acts. The following acts and the causing thereof
within the State by any person are prohibited:
(1) The manufacture, sale, delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any
food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded;
(2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic;
(3) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic
that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery
thereof for pay or otherwise;
(4) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of
any article in violation of section 328-11, 328-12, or 328-17;
(5) The dissemination of any false advertisement;
(6) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of
a sample, as authorized by sections 328-22 and 328-23 to 328-27,
or to permit access to or copying of any record as authorized
by section 328-23;
(7) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or undertaking is
false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the
same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of the person
residing in the State from whom the person received in good faith the food,
drug, device, or cosmetic;
(8) The removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation
of sections 328-25 to 328-27;
(9) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the
whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with
respect to a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if the act is done while the
article is held for sale and results in the article being adulterated or
misbranded;
(10) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or
without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other
identification device authorized or required by rules adopted under this
part or regulations adopted under the Federal Act;
(11) The use, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement
relating to the drug, of any representation or suggestion that an
application with respect to the drug is effective under section 328-17,
or that the drug complies with that section;
(12) The use by any person to the person's own advantage, or
revealing other than to the department of health or to the courts when
relevant in any judicial proceeding under this part, any information
acquired under authority of section 328-11, 328-12, 328-17,
or 328-23, concerning any method or process which as a trade secret
is entitled to protection;
(13) In the case of a prescription drug distributed or offered for sale in
this State, the failure of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor thereof
to maintain for transmittal, or to transmit, to any practitioner who makes
written request for information as to the drug, true and correct copies of
all printed matter which is required to be included in any package in which
that drug is distributed or sold, or such other printed matter as is
approved under the Federal Act. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to exempt any person from any labeling requirement
imposed by or under other provisions of this part;
(14) (A) Placing or causing to be placed upon any drug or device or
container thereof, with intent to defraud, the trade name or other
identifying mark, or imprint of another or any likeness of any of the
foregoing; or
(B) Selling, dispensing, disposing of, or causing to be sold, dispensed,
or disposed of, or concealing or keeping in possession, control, or custody,
with intent to sell, dispense, or dispose of, any drug, device,
or any container thereof, with knowledge that the trade name or other
identifying mark or imprint of another or any likeness of any of the
foregoing has been placed thereon in a manner prohibited by subparagraph
(A); or
(C) Making, selling, disposing of, or causing to be made, sold, or disposed
of, or keeping in possession, control, or custody, or concealing, with
intent to defraud, any punch, die, plate, or other
thing designed to print, imprint, or reproduce that trade name or other
identifying mark or imprint of another or any likeness of any of the
foregoing upon any drug, device, or container thereof;
(15) Except as provided in part VI and section 461-1, dispensing or causing
to be dispensed a different drug or brand of drug in place of
the drug or brand of drug ordered or prescribed without express permission
in each case of the person ordering or prescribing;
(16) The distribution in commerce of a consumer commodity as
defined in this part, if such commodity is contained in a package,
or if there is affixed to that commodity a label, which does not
conform to this part and of rules adopted under authority of this part;
provided that this prohibition shall not apply to persons engaged in
business as wholesale or retail distributors of consumer commodities except
to the extent that such persons:
(A) Are engaged in the packaging or labeling of such commodities; or
(B) Prescribe or specify by any means the manner in which such commodities
are packaged or labeled;
(17) The selling or dispensing in restaurants, soda fountains, drive-ins,
lunch wagons, or similar public eating establishments of imitation milk
and imitation milk products in place of fresh milk and fresh milk
products respectively; of liquid or dry products which simulate cream but do
not comply with content requirements for cream in place of cream; of
non-dairy frozen desserts which do not comply with content requirements for
dairy frozen desserts in place of dairy frozen desserts; and of any other
imitation food or one made in semblance of a genuine food in place of such
genuine food, unless the consumer is notified by either proper labeling or
conspicuous posted signs or conspicuous notices on menu cards and
advertisements informing of such
substitution, to include but not limited to the substitution of imitation
milk in milk shake and malted milk drinks;
(18) Wilfully and falsely representing or using any devices, substances,
methods, or treatment as effective in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,
treatment, or alleviation of cancer. This paragraph shall not apply to
any person who depends exclusively upon prayer for healing in accordance
with teachings of a bona fide religious sect, denomination,
or organization, nor to a person who practices such teachings;
(19) The selling or offering for sale at any food facility which serves
or sells over the counter directly to the consumer an unlabeled or
unpackaged food that is a confectionery which contains alcohol in excess of
one-half of one per cent by weight unless the consumer is notified of that
fact by either proper labeling or conspicuous posted
signs or conspicuous notices on menu cards and advertisements;
(20) The sale to a person below the age of twenty-one years of any
food which is a confectionery which contains alcohol in excess of
one-half of one per cent by weight[.];
(21) After December 31, 2008, the manufacture, sale or delivery or holding
or offering for sale of any food containing any amount of aspartame and its
derivative compounds in any of their trade names."
SECTION 4. This section shall not apply to the sale, delivery, holding, or
offering for sale of any food product containing aspartame prior to January
1, 2009.
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New
statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
______________________________________________________


Last name Derosa
First name Christopher
Middle name T.
Agency ATSDR
Organization DHHS/ATSDR/OA/OD
Job title ACT. SPECIAL ASST FOR TOXICOLOGY
Building CCTR
Duty station Atlanta GA 30329
Mail stop E28
Phone 404.498.0284 Fax 404.498.0083
Internet e-mail christopher.derosa@...;

Beppie Shapiro, Ph.D., Co-Project Director/Training Director
Early Intervention Program specialist and Advovacy/Research expert
Center for Disability Studies/UCEDD
University of Hawai`i
Phone: 808-973-9644
Email: beppie@...;
More information is available at the project web site
http://www.seek.hawaii.edu/
or by contacting SEEK Principal Investigator.
Dr Beppie Shapiro (beppie@...) is a professor at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education
and directs the SEEK program.

Teresa Vast
Center for Disability Studies/UCEDD
University of Hawai1i
Phone: 808-973-9647
Email: vast@...;

Sue Brown
Early Intervention Section
State Department of Health
Phone: 808-973-9656
Email: sue.brown@...;

Charles Neal M.D., Ph.D. Research Director
Dept. of Pediatrics
1319 Punahou St. 7th Floor
Honolulu, HI 96826
cneal@...;

Robert Bart, M.D., Neurology Faculty
robertb@...;

Mari Uehara M.D., Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Faculty
Dept. of Pediatrics
1319 Punahou St. 7th Floor
Honolulu, HI 96826
mariuehara@...;

Laurie Seaver, MD done
Dept. of Pediatrics
1319 Punahou St. 7th Floor
Honolulu, HI 96826
laurie.seaver@...;

http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/faculty/bio.php?facultyid=534
JABSOM Faculty & Staff
S. Kalani Brady:
Department: Native Hawaiian Health
Title: Associate Chair
Credentials: MD
Email: skbrady@...;
Phone: 587-8559 Fax: 587-8565
Address: 677 Ala Moana Blvd, Suite 1016B
Honolulu HI 96813
Webpage: http://www.dnhh.hawaii.edu
Department of Native Hawaiian Health

www.dienviro.com
The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology
Hackensack University Medical Center
Research Building, Room 240
30 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601
Phone: 201-336-8071 Fax: 201-336-8161
Email: dienviro@...;
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formaldehyde in FEMA trailers and other sources
(aspartame, dark wines and liquors, tobacco smoke):
Murray 2008.01.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1508

The FEMA trailers give about the same amount of formaldehyde daily
as from a quart of dark wine or liquor, or two quarts (6 12-oz cans)
of aspartame diet soda, from their over 1 tenth gram methanol impurity
(one part in 10,000), which the body quickly makes into
formaldehyde -- enough to be the major cause of "morning after"
alcohol hangovers.

Methanol and formaldehyde also result from many fruits and
vegetables, tobacco and wood smoke, heater and vehicle exhaust,
household chemicals and cleaners, cosmetics, and new cars, drapes,
carpets, furniture, particleboard, mobile homes, buildings, leather...
so all these sources add up and interact with many other toxic
chemicals.

BN Ames and LS Gold, 1998, have presented detailed information
that there is no increase in recent decades for most cancers, and that
common carcinogens do not result in significant exposures to the
average human population.

However, individuals are not average -- each person has a unique
genetic makeup, resulting in a huge range of variation of vulnerability
to specific chemicals, as is well evidenced in the case of methanol,
formaldehyde, and formic acid, especially with regard to behavioral
effects.

Each is subject to very wide ranges of exposure levels.

Many are in especially vulnerable groups, depending on diet,
obesity, sex, exercise, life stress, age from conception to very old,
severe toxic exposures, injuries, and diseases.

It is clear that a variety of multiple chemical sensitivity syndromes
do exist, often with remarkable hypersensitivity.

Methanol, formaldehyde, and formic acid toxicity are unusual, in
that humans are far more vulnerable than any other mammal,
as much as ten to sixty-fold, which complicates the utility of animal
data.

The unusally long human life span also increases the role of long-term
chronic low-level exposure.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1455
FEMA slow to safety test Katrina toxic trailers, Charles Babington,
Associated Press -- 1 ppm formaldehyde in air is about half the daily
dose from 3 cans aspartame diet soda and ten times the 1999 EPA
alarm level for drinking water: Murray 2007.07.23
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1455

"Paulison said FEMA received "just over 200 complaints of strange
odors including formaldehyde" in trailers and that 58 trailers were
replaced "because of formaldehyde concerns."

Occupants of five other trailers were moved to apartments, he said.

Several lawmakers said FEMA should have seen the 200 complaints
as a sign of a much wider problem. "


1 ppm formaldehyde in air is half the daily dose
from 3 cans aspartame diet soda
and ten times the 1999 EPA alarm level for drinking water.

J. D. Trasher et al in 1990 found many symptoms
in 19 mobile home residents,
living with 0.05 to 0.5 ppm formaldehyde.

http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehyde_1990.html full text
Jack Dwayne Thrasher, Alan Broughton, Roberta Madison.
Immune activation and autoantibodies in humans
with long-term inhalation exposure to formaldehyde.
Archives of Environmental Health. 1990; 45: 217-223.
"Immune activation, autoantibodies, and anti-HCHO-HAS
antibodies are associated with long-term formaldehyde inhalation."
PMID: 2400243

FEMA found 1.2 ppm formaldehyde in April 2005
in one of over 120,000 mobile homes
supplied for recent hurricane victims --
75 times more than the
0.016 level set for 8-hour working days
by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
for workers to be required to wear respirators.

http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/tac/appendxc.htm

1 ppm FA in air = 1.23 mg/cubic meter, so breathing 20 cubic
meters would retain about 20 mg FA daily, ten times the 1999 EPA
alarm level for drinking water.

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 EP
limit for daily formaldehyde in drinking water,
2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.

Medicine has to consider that the many sources of methanol and
formaldehyde are additive co-factors.

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


"... aspartame. It's perfectly safe," eminent diabetes MD S. Kalani
Brady -- er, Doctor, RX for ignorance, 3 days earnest study of
recent 2 years of mainstream research by groups independent of
vested interests: Murray 2008.01.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Sunday, January 27, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1507

details on 6 epidemiological studies since 2004 on diet soda (mainly
aspartame) correlations, as well as 14 other mainstream studies on
aspartame toxicity since summer 2005: Murray 2007.11.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1490

Hawaiian aspartame ban bills in House and Senate challenge
corporate clout, Sen. J. Kalani English & Suzanne Chun Oakland,
Rep. Calvin K.Y. Say & Mele Carroll: Murray 2008.01.25
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Friday, January 25, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1505

www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/house/members/rep13.asp

Mele Carroll
13th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 405
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-6790; fax 808-586-6779
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66790
From Molokai and Lanai,
toll free 1-800-468-4644 + 66790
E-mail repcarroll@...;

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/aspartameNMmessage/1451
Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose) and coloring
agents will be banned from use in newly-born and baby foods,
the European Parliament decided: Latvia ban in schools 2006:
Murray 2007.07.12
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Seizures and hyponatremia after excessive intake of diet coke, LJ
Mortelmans, M Van Loo, HG De Cauwer, K Merlevede, Klina
General Hospital, Brasschaat, Belgium, EJEM 2008 Feb:
Mark D. Gold critique: Murray 2008.01.10
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Thursday, January 10, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1502


See also:
possible neurologic effects of aspartame, TJ Maher, RJ Wurtman,
Environ. Health Persp. 1987 Nov, full text: other seizure reports re
aspartame, methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid: Murray 2008.01.10
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Thursday, January 10, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1501


Eur J Emerg Med. 2008 Feb; 15(1): 51.
Seizures and hyponatremia after excessive intake of diet coke.
Mortelmans LJ, Luc.mortelmans@...,
Van Loo M,
De Cauwer HG, haralddecauwer@...,
Merlevede K. Karen.Merlevede@...,
Departments of
a Emergency Medicine
b Neurology,
Klina General Hospital, Brasschaat, Belgium.

We describe a case of epileptic seizures after a massive intake of
diet coke.

Apart from the hyponatremia due to water intoxication the
convulsions can be potentiated by the high dose of caffeine and
aspartame from the diet coke.

To our knowledge this is the first report of seizures due to
excessive diet coke intake. PMID: 18180668


Methyl alcohol ingestion as a model etiologic agent in multiple
sclerosis, WC Monte, D Glanzman, C Johnston; Methanol induced
neuropathology in the mammalian central nervous system, Woodrow
C. Monte, Renee Ann Zeising, both reports 1989.12.04:
Murray 2007.12.28
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.htm
Friday, December 28 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1499

[ These seminal 1989 studies by Prof. Woodrow C. Monte are also
given in this previous post, along his two recent comprehensive
reviews:

role of formaldehyde, made by body from methanol from foods and
aspartame, in steep increases in fetal alcohol syndrome, autism,
multiple sclerosis, lupus, teen suicide, breast cancer, Nutrition
Prof. Woodrow C. Monte, retired, Arizona State U., two reviews,
190 references supplied, Fitness Life, New Zealand 2007 Nov, Dec: Murray
2007.12.26
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, December 26 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1498 ]

folic acid prevents neurotoxicity from formic acid, made by body from
methanol impurity in alcohol drinks [ also 11 % of aspartame ], BM
Kapur, PL Carlen, DC Lehotay, AC Vandenbroucke, Y Adamchik,
U. of Toronto, 2007 Dec., Alcoholism Cl. Exp. Res.:
Murray 2007.11.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, November 27, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1495

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/1453
Souring on fake sugar (aspartame), Jennifer Couzin,
Science 2007.07.06: 4 page letter to FDA from 12 eminent
USA toxicologists re two Ramazzini Foundation
cancer studies 2007.06.25: Murray 2007.07.18

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/1369
Bristol, Connecticut, schools join state program to limit artificial
sweeteners, sugar, fats for 8800 students, Johnny J Burnham,
The Bristol Press: Murray 2006.09.22

Devra Lee Davis, U. Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, rejects aspartame -- Luke
Ravenstahl, Mayor, drinks 12 cans Diet Pepsi daily: accurate warning by
Ronald K. Frazer: Murray 2008.01.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Sunday, January 13, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1503

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
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