Fwd: Aspartame Submission from Prof. Woodrow C. Monte to EFSA: While
Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills 241 p -- Ch 12 Autism and other
Birth Defects 26 p -- 740 references full pdfs: Rich Murray
2011.11.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fwd-aspartame-submission-from-prof.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1629


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From: Woodrow Monte <woodymonte@...>
Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM
Subject: Aspartame Submission from Professor Woodrow Monte
To: maud.paques@...
Cc: Hugues.KENIGSWALD@...

Hugues Kenigswald, Chief 3 November 2011
Food Additive and Nutrient Division
European Food Safety Authority

Mr. Kenigswald:

Please consider this a response to your letter of October
14th to Rich Murray requesting my work by November 5th. This is also
a continuation of my official submission to the EFSA call for data on
aspartame on the 7th of July, 2011.

I explicitly give EFSA permission to exchange the book
chapter I attach to this email with the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee
on Food Additives.

This is my work, I am the author and I own the copyright
to the work.

My concern about the safety of aspartame centers on its
11% methanol content. My reservation about its safety has only
deepened over the twenty five years since my first scientific
publication questioning its safety in the Journal of Applied Nutrition
(previously sent to Sandra Adedapo).

Every molecule of aspartame liberates a molecule of
methanol on consumption and each molecule of methanol metabolizes into
a molecule of formaldehyde within the brain and other vulnerable
tissue of the unsuspecting consumer.

Formaldehyde is now universally classified as a known
human carcinogen with no safe level of consumption. The health threat
is magnified when this highly reactive substance is produced within
the body from methanol.

My recent scientific article explains in detail the
premise by which methanol may act as a etiologic agent of
disease.(586)* The reference numbering of this version of my article
can be used on the reference section of my website,
http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/, to easily retrieve original
references where needed for elucidation.

I am in press of a review of the entire body of methanol
literature as pertinent to aspartame poisoning in a book entitled
While Science Sleeps. The book will be available on Amazon.com very
soon. I recommend it to your committee as a thorough review of the
methanol literature by a food scientist who has never been a
consultant to the industry that profits from the sweetener.

The recent controversial admission by the U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency that “methanol is a possible cause of
developmental birth defects”(627) and the recent release (this year)
of an internal U.S. FDA memo(677) pointing to aspartame as having
caused birth defects in laboratory animals are significant evidence to
suspect aspartame as the cause of the 25-year-old epidemic of autism,
whose point of origin appears to coincide to within one gestational
period of the date of aspartame’s addition to carbonated beverages.

I have attached a prepublication copy of Chapter 12 of my
book, While Science Sleeps, that deals with autism and aspartame in
order to expedite your committee’s reevaluation of the safety of this
substance. I ask that any use of the material herein be sourced to my
in press book, While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills, by Woodrow C.
Monte, Ph.D.

If I can do anything further to help in your review,
please let me know. In the recent past, I have registered with Sandra
Adedapo of your staff and sent her other information that I hope will
be helpful.

Kindest regards,

Woodrow C. Monte, Ph.D - woodymonte@...

Emeritus Professor of Food Science - Arizona State University
3575 Rocky Creek OR USA - Phone 001-541-765-7745

* All references from submitted Chapter 12 of While Science Sleeps.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 3

I A Time When All the Easy Questions Have Been Answered 7

II Methanol: Where Is It Found? How Can It Be Avoided? 20

III Man And Methanol: A Tragic History of Mutation and Deceit 27

IV Formaldehyde Is The Real Problem 44

V The Silent Battle That Turns Methanol Into Disease 64

VI How Methanol Kills 73

VII Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease) 94

VIII Alzheimer's Disease and its Perivascular Nature 122

IX Multiple Sclerosis 136

X Classic Autoimmune Diseases Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis 184

XI Cancers of Aspartame 194

XII Autism and other Birth Defects 216 [ 27 p ]

Bibliography 242

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/
740 full text pdfs

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/1.pdf
(1) Monte WC. Aspartame; Methanol and the Public Health. Journal of
Applied Nutrition 1984;36(1):42-58.

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/627.pdf
(627) Shelby M. NTP-CERHR Expert Panel report on the reproductive and
developmental toxicity of methanol. Reproductive Toxicology
2004;18:303-90.

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/677.pdf
(677) Collins TFX. Memorandum: Aspartame shown to cause nural tube
birth defects in the New Zealand rabit, an animal very resistant to
methanol poisoning. Freedom of information: Department of Health
Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration; 1978.


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Birth Defects caused by Aspartame

Open Letter to European F. S. A.

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Chapter 9 Slideshow 1

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Chapter 9 Slideshow 2

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Chapter 12 Slideshow
Birth Defects caused by Aspartame

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Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the human body
quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme, concentrated in
many tissues: Rich Murray 2011.11.02

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the human body
quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme, concentrated in
many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin, prostate, breast,
womb, muscle -- forming cumulative micro lesions and a wide variety of
symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco smoke,
dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in sealed metal
and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a variety of products
ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes, and furniture to mobile
homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Folic acid can protect many people.

See while-science-sleeps.com/references/pdf/586
Prof. (retired) Woodrow C. Monte.


Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/05/amid-health-fears-diet-coke-sweetener.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1625
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1391395/Amid-health-fears-Diet-Coke-sw\
eetner-safety-spotlight.html

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener in safety spotlight
By Sean Poulter
Last updated at 11:24 AM on 27th May 2011

A sweetener used in Diet Coke is to undergo a safety review over fears
that it has harmful effects on human health

An artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke is to undergo an urgent EU
safety review.

Aspartame is ingested every day by millions of people around the world
in more than 6,000 well-known brands of food, drink and medicine.

However, it has been the subject of a number of studies that appear to
show harmful effects on human health.

One recent study linked diet drinks containing aspartame to premature
births, while another suggested it could cause cancer.

To date, health watchdogs, including the European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA) and the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA), have ruled
out any link to ill-health.

But after several MEPs asked for a new investigation following
pressure from European health campaigners, EU Commission officials
have now asked the EFSA to bring forward a review that had been
planned for 2020.

The concern about artificial sweeteners such as aspartame relates to
the fact that they contain methanol, a nerve toxin which can be
metabolised in the body to form two more nerve toxins: formic acid and
formaldehyde, the chemical used to preserve dead bodies.

Earlier this year, experts on Britain’s Committee on Toxicity(CoT)
ruled that ‘long-term exposure to methanol consumed through food,
including from aspartame, is unlikely to be harmful to health’.

The committee pointed out that methanol is also found in fruit and
vegetables.

As a result of the experts’ conclusions, the FSA ruled the consumption
of aspartame ‘is not of concern at the current levels of use’.

Despite this verdict, the FSA is currently recruiting volunteers for
an investigation into anecdotal reports of ill health, including
headaches and stomach upsets, associated with aspartame.

The watchdog announced the research project in 2009, however it has
had difficulties recruiting volunteers who claim to suffer problems.

EFSA spokesman, Lucia De Luca, said: ‘Aspartame is one of hundreds of
flavourings. It is on the market because it has been assessed in the
past and considered safe.

‘We have received an official request for a complete re-evaluation of
the safety of aspartame.

‘The re-evaluation is scheduled for 2020 but the Commission asked us
to do this re-evaluation now in the light of recent events.

A study last year of 60,000 mothers-to be found a correlation between
the amount of diet drink consumed and an early birth
‘In the past year, there have been a couple of studies looking at
aspartame and concerns expressed by consumer groups and others.’

In July last year, EU-funded research by Danish scientists, which
looked at almost 60,000 mothers-to-be, found a correlation between the
amount of diet drink consumed and an early birth.

Previously, the Independent Ramazzini Foundation in Italy has
published research suggesting aspartame caused several types of cancer
in rats at doses very close to the current acceptable daily intake for
humans.

Both of these have been evaluated by EFSA experts, who have rejected
any risk to human health.

Aspartame is manufactured by Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe. The firm
said it welcomes the decision to bring forward the safety evaluation.

A spokesman said: ‘EFSA reaffirmed the safety of aspartame in 2006,
2009 and 2010. In addition, recent allegations about the safety of
aspartame made in France and by a handful of MEPs have already been
dismissed by EFSA.

'This review of the extensive body of science on aspartame will
provide additional confirmation of the ingredient’s safety.

‘By providing an excellent sweet taste, aspartame makes a useful
contribution to a healthy, calorie-controlled diet and can help people
to avoid overweight and obesity, and their associated diseases.'

Comments (141)

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the human body
quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme, concentrated in
many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin, prostate, breast,
womb, muscle -- forming cumulative micro lesions and a wide variety of
symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco smoke,
dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in sealed metal
and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a variety of products
ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes, and furniture to mobile
homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Folic acid can protect many people.

See while-science-sleeps.com/references/pdf/586
Prof. (retired) Woodrow C. Monte.

- Rich Murray, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 30/5/2011 07:04

I thought this was common knowledge? It still shocks me to see the
amount of overweight kids drinking diet soft drink in the mistaken
idea that adding aspartame to their diet is preferable to more sugar -
doesn't help them lose weight though does it? Diet coke with their Big
Mac meal?

- kiwi abroad, Ireland, 28/5/2011 23:35

Watch "the Truth about Aspartame" by Dr Russell Blaylock.

- Alan, Durham, 28/5/2011 22:09

I know, I know, I wear a tin foil hat but any one noticing that
conspiracy theorists are being proved right more and more? Rumsfeld's
disease has been known about for years.That's why the food companies
changed the labelling to "natural flavors" I guess something produced
from e coli bacteria's excrement is natural. Btw DM, I'm intigued to
know why your article reporting that GMO toxins have been found in 93%
of unborns only stayed up for a couple of hours. Yes it is still
searchable on site, but you would only search for it if you knew it
was there.

- tom bowden, perth australia, 28/5/2011 17:36

It's a choice but the facts have been around for years, I would never
buy food that has any artificial ingredients in but it's up to the
individual.

- quarrybanksurfer, Scotland, 28/5/2011 15:13

'EFSA spokesman, Lucia De Luca, said: "Aspartame is one of hundreds of
flavourings. It is on the market because it has been assessed in the
past and considered safe".' We are dealing with some tricky little
monkeys are we not? It took them years in the US to have this
flavouring legalised and it was done in very murky circumstances with
the help of Donald Rumsfeld who, had an interest in the corporation
that used it. The FSA is not here to look after your health, it is
here to make sure corporations maintain and increase profit. It is
frustrating that we seem to take backward steps all the time on this
sort of issue, indecently propelled by the Agri-corp shill SSEFRA C
Spelman MP.

- Bob, Leeds UK, 28/5/2011 14:22

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Re; http://www.sweeteners.org/Pdf/conferenceBrochure.pdf

International Sweeteners Association
LOW CALORIE FOODS, BEVERAGES AND SWEETENERS
CAN THEY REALLY CONTRIBUTE TO A HEALTHIER FUTURE?
Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels
19 May 2011 09.00 - 17.00


aspartame, acesulfame K, saccharin, fructose each "caused accelerated
senescence in human dermal fibroblasts" (re metabolic syndrome and
diabetes), Kyung-Hyun Cho et al, Yeungnam University, Korea, Mol
Cells. 2011 Apr 21: Rich Murray 2011.05.21
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.htm
Saturday, May 21, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1624


aspartame doubts aired by EU MPs Corinne Lepage and Antonyia Parvanova
-- EFSA National Experts agreed that "there should be more clarity
about the metabolism of aspartame": Rich Murray 2011.04.24
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.htm
Sunday, April 24, 2011
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1621


aspartame water in rats for 6 months causes liver harm, RH Nair et al,
Mahatma Gandhi U, Food Chem Toxicol 2011.03.02: Rich Murray 2011.03.12
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.htm
Saturday, March 12, 2011
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21376768

Food Chem Toxicol. 2011 Mar 2. [Epub ahead of print]
Effect of long term intake of aspartame on antioxidant defense status in
liver.
Abhilash M, Paul MV, Varghese MV, Nair RH.
School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kottayam, Kerala, India, 686560.
harikumarannair@..., harinair@...,


careful expert lifetime study on mice shows liver and lung cancers
from aspartame, M Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Institute, Italy, checked
by US National Toxicology Program experts, confirms many previous
studies from 2001 on: Rich Murray 2011.02.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.htm
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1619


re GC Ebers study, females harmed more by body making methanol into
formaldehyde in brain via ADH enzyme: 589 references, WC Monte,
retired Prof. Nutrition: Rich Murray 2011.01.08
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.htm
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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Woodrow C Monte, PhD, Emiritus Prof. Nutrition gives many PDFs of
reseach -- methanol (11% of aspartame) puts formaldehyde into brain
and body -- multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, cancers, birth defects,
headaches: Rich Murray 2010.05.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.htm
Thursday, May 13, 2010
[ at end of each long page, click on Older Posts ]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1601

[ Other formaldehyde sources include alcohol drinks and
tobacco and wood smoke,
while adequate folic acid levels protect most people. ]

http://whilesciencesleeps.com/about

http://while-science-sleeps.com/references/pdf/586
[ summary, not peer reviewed ]
Monte WC.
Methanol: A chemical Trojan horse as the root of the inscrutable U.
Medical Hypotheses 2010;74(3):493-6
DOI 2010.10.16

Monte WC.
Bittersweet: Aspartame Breast Cancer Link.
Fitness Life 2008 Jan. 34: 32-36

Monte WC.
A Deadly Experiment. Methanol and MS,
Fitness Life 2007 Dec. 34: 36-41

Monte WC.
Sickly Sweet: Is your Diet Sweetener killing you?
Fitness Life 2007 Nov. 33: 31-33

http://whilesciencesleeps.com/references
740 references for above articles and upcoming book,
most with full text PDFs

http://whilesciencesleeps.com/montediet
[ and Fitness Life 2007 Dec. 34: 36-41 ]

Methanol: Where Is It Found? How Can It Be Avoided?

AVOID the following, ranked in order of greatest danger:

1. Cigarettes.
2. Diet foods and drinks with aspartame.
3. Fruit and vegetable products and their juices in bottles,
cans, or pouches.
4. Jellies, jams, and marmalades not made fresh and kept
refrigerated.
5. Black currant and tomato juice products, fresh or
processed.
6. Tomato sauces, unless first simmered at least 3 hours
with an open lid.
7. Smoked food of any kind, particularly fish and meat.
8. Sugar-free chewing gum.
9. Slivovitz: You can consume one alcoholic drink a day
on this diet -- no more! [ no fruit brandies ]
10. Overly ripe or near rotting fruits or vegetables.

Selection from Article 2, Fitness Life, December 2007, and
well discussed in the DVD video:

"Identical Symptoms of MS, Methanol Poisoning
and Aspartame Toxicity

The symptoms of multiple sclerosis (44, 83, 85, 169), chronic
and acute methanol poisoning (13, 144, 189), and Aspartame
toxicity (54, 58, 93, 181), are in all ways identical.

There is nothing that happens to the human body from the
toxic effect of methanol that has not been expressed during
the course of MS... nothing (143, 144).

This generalization extends even to the remarkable
opthomological conditions common to both: transitory optic
neuritis and retrolaminar demyelinating optic neuropathy with
scotoma of the central visual field (which occasionally
manifests as unilateral temporary blindness (85, 138, 163).

In fact, these opthomological symptoms have been thought of
for years in their respective literatures to be "tell tale"
indications for the differential diagnosis for each of these
maladies independently (85, 138, 148, 163, 169).

The common symptoms of
headache (13, 83, 181, 189),
nervousness (13, 83, 181),
depression (58, 83, 189, 181),
memory loss (18, 147, 85, 169, 181),
tingling sensations (13, 85, 168, 138, 169),
pain in the extremities (13, 85, 169),
optic neuritis (85, 138, 148, 163, 169),
bright lights in the visual field (139, 83),
seizures (21, 83, 160),
inability to urinate or to keep from urinating (139, 146, 167)
are all shared by each of these conditions and shared yet
again by complaints from aspartame poisoning
(54, 58, 93, 181).

I take these strikingly similar symptom patterns as evidence
that these disorders act on identical components of the
central nervous system and in the same way.

The "Miracle" that MS shares with Methanol poisoning

In the early stages of MS, or when a non-lethal dose of
methanol has been administered, complete recovery is a
possibility.

The only two afflictions for which such dramatic "remissions"
are reported from identical neuromuscular and opthomological
damage, even "blindness" is relapsing-remitting multiple
sclerosis (85) and methyl alcohol poisoning (138, 163).

The pathology of the two maladies is in may ways identical,
particularly when it comes to destruction of the myelin
sheath with no harm to the axon itself (18, 148, 176).

Sex Ratios for MS and Aspartame Reactions

Women bear the brunt of multiple sclerosis (91a-c) and lupus
(SLE)(73) with fully three-fold representations in infliction
numbers over men for both diseases.

This is exactly the proportion represented by adverse
reactors to Aspartame reported by the US Center for
Disease Control in their study of 1984 (58).

The Center found three women to every man whose
Aspartame consumption complaints were serious enough
to warrant investigation (93).

Although the female/male ratio for those stricken with MS has
always been high, recent estimates place it at over 3 to 1
(91, 91a, 91c).

What might account for the difference across sexes in
incidence?

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
(94) reports biopsies of the gastric lining of men and women.

A result was that the concentration of ADH in the
gastric lining of men was much higher than for woman.

Men have the advantage of removing methanol from the
bloodstream four times faster on an equal-body-size basis
than women.

Thus, for men, methanol is more likely to be removed from the
blood before it reaches the brain.

The brain is spared but the methanol removed would still be
metabolized to formaldehyde in the gut where it would reap
its havoc on a more forgiving organ.

This may help explain why men have more gastrointestinal
complaints from both methanol and Aspartame consumption
(93, 99).

On the other hand, women's complaints from both more
frequently involve serious neurological complications."...
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methanol (11% of aspartame), made by body into
formaldehyde in many vulnerable tissues, causes modern
diseases of civilization, summary of a century of research,
Woodrow C Monte PhD, Medical Hypotheses journal:
Rich Murray 2009.11.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.htm
Sunday, November 15, 2009
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aspartame abstinance cures fibromyalgia chronic pain in 2 French
adults: R Ciappuccini et al, Clin Exp Rheumatol 2010 Nov: Rich Murray
2010.02.19
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.htm
Saturday, February 19, 2011
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http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1617


formaldehyde from 0.2 mg daily methanol from aspartame in Singulair
(montelukast) chewable asthma medicine causes severe allergic
dermatitis in boy, SE Jacob et al, Pediatric Dermatology 2009 Nov:
Rich Murray 2010.09.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.htm
Monday, September 27, 2010
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