From: Jaffe, Lyle D Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 8:05 AM To: Dockets, FDA Subject: FW: Why is Aspartame Still Allowed on the Market -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com] Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 1:52 PM To: Dwight Strickler Cc: aspartame-yahoogroups.com; inforeply-cdc.gov; Jaffe Lyle D; DHATTAN-CFSAN.FDA.GOV; RXH-CFSAN.FDA.GOV Subject: Why is Aspartame Still Allowed on the Market Dear Dwight, In answer to your questions, they are all answered in the new movie, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World (cori@soundandfuryproductions.com). Donald Rumsfeld (Rumsfeld Disease) was CEO of Searle and called in his markers to get it approved. It wasn't done by science but political clout. Searle no longer owns aspartame. Searle was bought by Monsanto and then Monsanto sold to Ajinomoto, Michael Dell's investment group, Merisant, and Childs. Lawsuits have been filed including Racketeering charges against NutraSweet, and their spin doctor, Dr. Robert Moser, Monsanto and the American Diabetes Assn for misleading diabetics. Fourteen other lawsuits have been filed against some companies as Coke, Pepsi, Wrigley, Kelloggs, Pfizer, etc. That's why you see aspartame being replaced by sucralose or Splenda. However, this is a chlorinated hydrocarbon, and victims getting off aspartame and on to Splenda can not only continue the aspartame symptoms because its a chemical hypersensitization agent, but also other symptoms because of sucralose itself. I wrote a citizens petition to ban aspartame over 2 1/2 years ago. The law says the FDA must answer it within 180 days. They wrote me a letter saying they had more important things to do. The FDA serves above the law. The reason they won't answer it is because its not based on safety. We all know like you say aspartame is not safe. It's best on the fact that I have the FDA records and they are lying to the public. Since its all a matter of public record they can't get out of it, so they simply refuse to obey the law. And as long as aspartame is on the market no drug is safe because aspartame damages the mitochondria or life of the cell and Dr. James Bowen says that anything that does this would interact with all drugs. So you see the constant recall, usually because of heart attacks or strokes which, of course, aspartame triggers. Doctors Roberts, Blaylock and Bowen have written so much on the fact that aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with all cardiac medication. It damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death, the reason you hear of so many people, especially athletes dropping dead. They blamed it on Ephedra which has been used for thousands of years, and if what they were saying was correct then people would stop dropping dead for no reason but I'm constantly getting information on more and more people dropping dead. This is what the FDA has done and why they are often referred to as the Food and Death Association. When those responsible to solve the problem are the problem its a sad commentary. The FDA is nothing more than the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical industry, their attack dog. That's why they are constantly trying to get safe supplements off the market. They simply don't have the courage or the integrity to tell the public the truth. Their approval of a deadly neurotoxic drug, an actual chemical poison, has no doubt caused more deaths than many wars. This can be shown by the fact that the medical text on Aspartame Disease is over 1000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this poison and documented, even down to mechanism. If after 20 years we don't know what aspartame causes it would go down in the Guinness Book of Records under extreme medical ignorance. As to your last question we continue to petition the FDA to ban the substance but it takes people of integrity and concern for safe food and drugs, and you won't find them at the FDA. Otherwise, aspartame would not be on the market today. They might as well be part of the pharmaceutical industry and as Ed Horton, Editor of the prestigious Lancet said some years ago: "The FDA endangers the lives of the people because they take money from industry." There is a name for people who do it for money. For those who want to be part of a class action having to do with the brain tumors, seizures and blindness and eye deterioration triggered by aspartame they can email their case to Keith Silverstein, Atty, at ksilverstein@shslawpro.com This is what it will take to get aspartame off the market. Don't expect help from the FDA - they have shown in over 20 years they could care less about safe food and drugs by continuing the lie. I have a friend who was an anti-aspartame journalist for years who has a button she wears about the FDA - "They lie and deny". That says it all. All my best, Betty www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 12/26/2004