all parties to aspartame issue may call or email European Food Safety
Authority by Monday Nov 17 to ask for telephone conference call with EFSA
Organizing Team experts in Parma, Italy on Wed afternoon Nov 26, or share
face-to-face, before January meeting of "National Experts": Jeffrey Moon,
EFSA: Rich Murray 2008.11.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.htm
Saturday, November 15, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1568

Jeffrey Moon
Scientific Committee and Advisory Forum Unit
European Food Safety Authority
Largo N. Palli 5/A, I-43100 Parma, Italy
tel: + 39 0521 036541
fax: +39 0521 0360541
e-mail: Jeffrey.Moon@...


Dear Mr. Moon,

Thank you for your courteous, positive invitation to travel to Parma, Italy
at my cost to have a brief face-to-face meeting on the afternoon of
Wednesday November 26 with an European Food Safety Authority team of experts
on an Organizing Team for me to have "...the opportunity to highlight
through direct contact the key information you consider important and for
the experts to clarify with you any points they may have relating to your
submission." -- regarding crucial, generally dismissed issues re aspartame
toxicity, namely that human bodies quickly convert the 11% methanol
component of aspartame into formaldehyde and then formic acid, both toxins,
neurotoxins, genotoxins, and carcinogens -- preparing for a January meeting
of EFSA "National Experts".

Last night I called Mark D. Gold, like me, a conscientious, careful medical
layman who has been giving unpaid volunteer service for over a decade by
composing detailed, long, fair, civil reviews, as a fully identified author,
using mainly mainstream medical and media sources, as well as many reports
of uneven quality by aspartame reactors, usually anonymous -- his work has
always inspired and guided me as an outstanding example of consistently high
quality service as an Internet information activist.

http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame mgold@...
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center, Mark D. Gold
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2110

He agreed with me that he would prefer the far more convenient venue of a
telephone conference call, possibly including web video, which can
accomodate a large number of competent citizens on both sides of the issue.
So, I am sharing my proposal with many concerned citizens, asking them to
phone or email you by Monday 17 November.

1. Since aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid) toxicity is an
immediate life and death issue, the public must be provided online at no
cost with the uncensored, unedited telephone, internet video, and video of
the face-to-face discussion and its transcript, along with free access to
the participants' identities, contact information, qualifications, funding,
and associations, and online texts of abstracts and full papers, if
possible, under discussion.

2. The discussion process will be immeasurably more beneficial to the world
at large if it is initiated before the public face-to-face meeting and
continued afterwards as an Internet discussion group with a permanent,
freely available archive. Moderation should be limited to enforcing
relevancy and courtesy. Participants should have verifiable identities.
The lack of open public dialogue among the various sides in the genial
scientific tradition based on reason and verifiable public evidence in this
critical health emergency is tragic, harmful, unnecessary, avoidable, and
easily remedied, now.

3. Due to the sudden expiration of my main computer, and my own lamentable
inattention, I neglected to send more citations before your 31 October
deadline, so I will venture now to offer these, hoping that the Organizing
Team is indeed highly motivated to access all recent research -- let me know
if I may submit more by Friday November 21.

In mutual service, Rich Murray, MA


low doses aspartame, acesulfame-K, saccharin in mice induce DNA damage in
bone marrow -- "a potential health risk", S Ghoshal et al, U. Kentucky,
Lexington, Drug Chem Toxicol 2008: Rich Murray 2008.10.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1567

Drug Chem Toxicol. 2008; 31(4): 447-57.
Genotoxicity testing of low-calorie sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame-K, and
saccharin.
Bandyopadhyay A,
Ghoshal S,
Mukherjee A.
Centre of Advanced Study, Cell and Chromosome Research, Department of
Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

old tiger roars -- Woodrow C Monte, PhD -- aspartame causes
many breast cancers, as ADH enzyme in breasts makes methanol
from diet soda into carcinogenic formaldehyde -- same in dark
wines and liquors, Fitness Life 2008 Jan.: Murray 2008.02.11
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm
Monday, February 11, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1517

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

Monte WC., Is your Diet Sweetener killing you? Fitness Life. 2007 Nov; 33:
31-33.
Monte WC., A Deadly Experiment. Fitness Life. 2007 Dec; 34: 38-42.
Monte WC., Bittersweet: Aspartame Breast Cancer Link. Fitness Life. 2008
Feb; 34: 21-22.

Article 1 http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/review1.shtml
Article 2 http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/review2.shtml
Article 3 http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/review3.shtml

http://www.thetruthaboutstuff.com/articles.shtml 223 references with
abstracts or full and partial texts

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

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.


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From: aspartamecallfordata@...
To: "Rich Murray" rmforall@...
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:09 AM [Santa Fe time = MST in USA]
Subject Aspartame Submission

Re:
European Food Safety Authority EFSA wants aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde,
formic acid) safety data by 2008.10.31 for 'Meeting of National Experts on
Aspartame' in December: Rich Murray 2008.10.10
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.htm
Friday, October 10, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1566

Dear Mr Murray,

I write further to your submission to the EFSA 'call for data' regarding
aspartame, where it was noted that you would be willing to further support
the information you have provided.

The Organising Team of experts from Member States preparing for the January
meeting of National Experts would like to offer you the opportunity to
support your submission in a short face to face meeting with the team on the
afternoon of Wednesday 26 November, 2008 at the EFSA offices in Parma, Italy

I realize that this is relatively short notice, but would like to reassure
you that your submission will be fully considered whether you are able to
take up this offer nor not. It is simply designed to give you the
opportunity to highlight through direct contact the key information you
consider important and for the experts to clarify with you any points they
may have relating to your submission.

Regrettably, I must advise you that we are not able to provide any financial
assistance towards travel and subsistence for attending this meeting.

Further details of the afternoon will be provided in due course, but in the
meantime I would welcome an indication of your availability to attend the
meeting as soon as possible, and preferably by Monday 17 November.

If you have any enquiries relating to the meeting or your submission, please
do not hesitate to contact me.

Kindest regards,

Jeff Moon

Jeffrey Moon
Scientific Committee and Advisory Forum Unit
European Food Safety Authority
Largo N. Palli 5/A, I-43100 Parma, Italy
tel: + 39 0521 036541
fax: +39 0521 0360541
e-mail: Jeffrey.Moon@...
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