Hawaii Senate Resolution On Aspartame

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Hawaii Senate Resolution On Aspartame

 

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From Betty Martini and Stephen Fox

 

3-13-8

 

 

The Hawaii Senate Resolution will ask the FDA Commissioner to rescind

Aspartame's approval; the House Resolution will form a kind of task force to

report back to the legislature before the 2009 session.

 

This Hawaii Senate Resolution is the strongest legislative document ever put

forth regarding Aspartame...

 

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Hawaii Senate Resolution on Aspartame by Senator Chun Oakland,

 

House Resolution by Rep. Josh Green, M.D.

 

 

Text of Senate Resolution

 

There is now a Hawaii Senate Resolution (entire text follows below) which

requests the Department of Health and National Academy of Sciences to review

existing reports and studies related to aspartame, by funding source. It

resolves that given the enormous amount of evidence that has been compiled

concerning the neurodegenerative harm it can cause, that the US Food and Drug

Administration is requested to rescind approval of aspartame immediately on a

phase-out basis over six months to one year. This resolution is carried by

Hawaii Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland. " We are very pleased to note that this is

the strongest legislative document concerning aspartame ever presented anywhere

in the world, " according to legislative activist Stephen Fox of New Mexico, who

helped to write the Resolution, in conjunction with Betty Martini, Founder,

Mission Possible International.

 

On March 12, another resolution, HCR132, introduced by Rep Josh Green, M.D.,

Chairman of the House Committee on Health, was approved by its first committee

(Health) and moves on to the next (Consumer Protection and Commerce). This would

set up a work group to explore the need to ban or improve labeling containing

aspartame. It was again opposed by Dr. Chiyome Fukino, M.D., Director of the

Health Department, an appointee of Republican Governor Linda Lingle, who opposed

the House Bill to ban aspartame on the flawed basis of an Ajinomoto-funded

review study; Ajinomoto is the world's largest manufacturer of Aspartame, and

another proven neurotoxic food additive, Monosodium Glutamate. Betty Martini, D.

Hum, sent Dr. Fukino a detailed rebuttal to this study, showing the links to

Ajinomoto, and flawed industry research. Dr. Fukino's opposition today, March

12, was opposed by Rep. Green, M.D., the only physician in the entire Hawaii

Legislature, in view of him having " deferred " a

prior bill to ban aspartame outright, by statute. This was a pleasant surprise.

 

Here is the rebuttal to the Ajinomoto Study, written by Mark Gold, Founder,

Aspartame Toxicity Information Center, New Hampshire:

<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/burdock/>http://www.holisticmed.com/aspart\

ame/burdock/.

 

This flawed Ajinomoto-funded report, which has been touted far and wide by

aspartame manufacturers and corporate hacks and lobbyists, shows how far the

world's largest aspartame manufacturer will go to deceive the public.

 

 

However, today, there is no doubt that Ajinomoto's Board of Directors as well as

the Board of Directors of Coca Cola, Pepsi, Wrigley's Gum, and Merisant

(manufacturer of Equal) extremely worried about these late-breaking developments

in Hawaii, which should also encourage consumer protection activists all over

the world to contact their legislators and parliamentarians, asking them to

introduce similar legislation and Resolutions. We cordially thank Senator Chun

Oakland and Representative Josh Green, M.D., for advancing our consumer

protection initiative as far as they have.

 

For more information, please contact Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland at 808-586-

6130; fax 808-586-6131 e-mail

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Representative Josh Green, M.D. 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608 From the Big

Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605

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Text of Senate Resolution

 

Requesting the Department of Health and the National Academy of Sciences to

review existing reports and studies related to Aspartame, and Requesting the

United States Food and Drug Administration to Rescind Approval for United States

Markets, carried by Hawaii Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland

 

Whereas, aspartame was originally developed as a drug to treat peptic ulcers;

and Whereas, manufacturers state that aspartame is made up of forty per cent

aspartic acid, fifty percent phenylalanine, and ten per cent methanol; and

 

Whereas, aspartic acid is a nonessential amino acid that is used by the body to

initiate apoptosis or cell death in aging cells, and that excess aspartic acid

from aspartame consumption causes apoptosis in health cells that can destroy

healthy tissue, especially in the brain; and

 

Whereas, phenylalanine is an essential amino acid found naturally in protein but

when isolated becomes neurotoxic, lowers the seizure threshold, depletes

serotonin triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems, and interacts with

depressants and other drugs; and

 

Whereas, methanol is a severe metabolic poison classified as a narcotic that

converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, and can embalm living tissue and

damage DNA; and

 

Whereas, aspartame metabolites include formaldehyde, a " class A " carcinogen,

diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent, and formic acid, and

 

Whereas, in 1974, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved

aspartame as an artificial sweetener, but asked its manufacturer Searle to hold

back from selling it on the market until further tests could be made with

regards to its safety; and

 

Whereas, scientific data revealed that there was a problem with aspartame safety

date and the United States Food and Drug Administration withdrew its approval;

and

 

Whereas, in 1975, the United States Food and Drug Administration initiated an

investigation into Searle's laboratory practices and discovered fraud in

scientific experiments as well as manipulated data giving favorable results

proving aspartame to be safe; and

 

Whereas, the results of this investigation are included in what is called " The

Bressler Report " by Jerome Bressler; and Whereas, in 1980, Dr. John Olney

submitted scientific data to a United States Food and Drug Administration Public

Board of Inquiry showing that aspartic acid, the excitotoxic ingredient in

aspartame, caused holes in the brains of mice; and

 

Whereas, Dr. John Olney stated that it warranted special emphasis that

excitotoxins act by an acute but silent mechanism, requiring only a single

exposure for CVO neurons to be quietly destroyed, that clearly Searle failed to

establish the safety of their product, aspartame, for use in children's food,

and that all age comparative data support the following conclusions: (1) orally

administered excitotoxins destroy CVO neurons at any age; (2) immature animals

are most vulnerable; and (3) the toxic threshold increases only gradually

between birth and adulthood; and

 

Whereas, in 1980, the Public Board of Inquiry unanimously voted against

aspartame approval, but was overruled by a new United States Food and Drug

Administration Commissioner, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, against the advice of Food

and Drug Administration scientific personnel and advisers; and Whereas, the

United States Food and Drug Administration approved aspartame use in sodas,

despite the fact that the National Soft Drink Association argued vehemently

against aspartame in these quotes from their protest:

 

(1) " The present record does not contain date which demonstrate that the use of

APM in soft drinks will not result in the adulteration of the beverages under

Section 402(a)(3) of the FDC Act 21 U.S.S. 342 (a)(3), which provides that a

food is adulterated if it contains, in whole or in part, " a decomposed substance

or it is otherwise unfit for food " );

 

 

(2) " An important decomposition product of aspartame, aspartic acid, cannot be

detected at all using TLC " ;

 

 

(3) " G.D. Searle and Company has not demonstrated to a reasonable certainty that

the use of aspartame in soft drinks, without quantitative limitations, will not

adversely affect human health as a result of the changes such use is likely to

cause in brain chemistry and under certain reasonably anticipated conditions of

use " ; and

 

 

(4) " Specifically, Searle has not met its burdens under section 409.to

demonstrate that aspartame is safe and functional for use in soft drinks.

Collectively, the extensive deficiencies in the stability studies conducted by

Searle to demonstrate that aspartame and its degradation products are safe in

soft drinks intended to be sold in the United States, render those studies

inadequate and unreliable. " Senate Congressional Record, May 7, 1985, S5507-

5511: and

 

Whereas, the United States Food and Drug Administration has compiled a list of

ninety-two symptoms attributed to aspartame consumption including four types of

seizures, coma, and death; and

 

Whereas, the Ramazzini Studies by the European Foundation for Oncology in Italy

conducted exhaustive studies over three years with thousands of rats, and proved

aspartame to be multipotential carcinogen, thus confirming the United States

Food and Drug Administration's original findings; and

 

Whereas, the United States Food and Drug Administration admitted that aspartame

caused cancer over two decades ago when the Administration's toxicologist, Dr.

Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one of Searle's studies " has established

beyond any reasonable doubt that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors

in experimental animals and that this predisposition of it is of extremely high

significance.In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of

aspartame is a matter that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt,

one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke

for this food additive the so-called Delaney amendment to the Food, Drug, and

Cosmetic act?

 

 

Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame, how would the FDA justify its

position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an

allowable daily intake or " safe " level of it? Is that position in effect not

equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food additive and thus a violation

of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to

protect the health of the public? " Congressional Record, August 1, 1985, SID835:

131: and

 

Whereas , aspartame is linked to sudden death, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and

many neurodegenerative diseases, as cited in may medical texts, most notably:

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by H.J. Roberts, M.D., and Excitotoxins:

the Taste that Kills, By Russell Blaylock, M.D., and

 

Whereas, on November 3, 1987, Dr. Louis Elsas told Congress: " I am a

pediatrician, a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory and Have spent twenty-five

years in the biomedical sciences, trying to prevent mental retardation and birth

defect caused by excess phenylalanine,and therein lies my basic concern, that

aspartame is in fact a well known neurotoxin and teratogen which, in some as yet

undefined dose, will irreversibly in the developing child or fetal brain,

produce adverse effects:' and

 

Whereas, there are tens of thousands of case histories and anecdotal accounts

from victims of aspartame poisoning who have come forward to make their case

histories known; now, therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-Fourth Legislature of the State of

Hawaii, Regular Session of 2008, the House of Representatives concurring, that

the Department of Health is requested to create, within their existing budget,

an evidentiary repository accessible to the public for patients and physicians

to submit of the next year their cases involving victims of aspartame poisoning;

and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Health is requested to report to the

Legislature on the status of the evidentiary repository during periodic interim

meetings with the Chairs of the Hawaii State Senate Committees on Health and

Human Services and Public Housing, the House of Representatives Committees on

Health and Human Services and Housing, and the state Attorney General; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health is requested to review all

existing reports, studies, experiments, and related literature on aspartame,

including clinical studies, differentiating each study by its funding source,

and submit a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the

convening of the 2008 Regular Session; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Nation Academy of Sciences is requested to

review all existing reports, studies, experiments, and related literature on

aspartame, including clinical studies, differentiating each study by its funding

source, and that, if funding is required to undertake this extended evaluation,

that the appropriate funding be sought from various foundations and from

Congress; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that given the enormous amount of evidence that has been

compiled concerning the neurodegenerative harm it can cause, that the United

States Food and Drug Administration is requested to rescind approval of

aspartame immediately on a phase-out basis over six months to one year; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted

to the members of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation, the Commissioner of the

Untied States Food and Drug Administration, the Executive Director of the

National Academy of Sciences, the Director of Health, the Director of Human

Services, the Attorney General, and the Director of Commerce and Consumer

Affairs.

 

 

 

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