Aspartame: UK Parliamentarian Calls For Ban

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According to a recent article in The Guardian, Roger Williams, a UK Member of Parliament, called for emergency action to ban the artificial sweetener Aspartame, questioning its safety. The MP said that there was "compelling and reliable evidence for this carcinogenic substance to be banned from the UK food and drinks market altogether".

A second article in the same issue of The Guardian reminds us how aspartame was approved by Donald Rumsfeld calling in "political markers" to override the doubts of the FDA's scientists. No honest reassessment of the science on aspartame was attempted as country after country followed the FDA's lead and approved the chemical sweetener.

Consumers did and do report many untoward side effects, but apparently there is no mechanism in the FDA to follow up, analyse or investigate such consumer complaints. Betty Martini has been collecting the information, all available on dorway.com and who.net. Several books detail the dangers of the sweetener, but it seems that - barring widespread public protests - there may be no way to get health authorities to break their 'conspiracy of silence'. Aspartame seems pretty much unassailable.

Well, a Member of Parliament in the UK takes up arms against the monster and calls for action.

Betty Martini has some interesting particulars to add.

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Aspartame's time to be banned is long overdue. It should never have been approved in the first place. Even the FDA revoked the petition for approval. In the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, (docworkers.com) Attorney James Turner explains how Don Rumsfeld called in his markers to get it approved. See the clip at soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html Rumsfeld was on Reagan's transition team and the day after he took office he appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to get it approved. So concerned it would take 30 days to get Hayes there President Reagan actually wrote an executive order making the current FDA Commissioner powerless to do anything about aspartame until Hayes arrived. What political clout. Somebody needs to ask Rumsfeld to go into more detail about those markers he held. After Hayes arrived at the FDA a scientific Board of Inquiry was convened and the petition for approval of this deadly neurotoxin was revoked because it triggered brain tumors, and was never proven safe. Hayes over-ruled the Board and [after having approved the sweetener and then left the FDA, he] went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer and has refused to talk to the press ever since.

H. J. Roberts, M.D., who testified before Congress warned at his first press conference if something wasn't done then we would have a global plague on our hands in five or ten years. And indeed it was Dr. Roberts who declared Aspartame Disease to be a global plague and published a 1038 page medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic. (sunsentpress.com)

Having poisoned the world, more and more consumers call the plague - Rumsfeld Disease. Obviously had he not called in those bloody markers, the revoked petition for approval would have prevented the marketing of this chemical poison for human consumption and the disability and death it causes. Cori Brackett and J. T. Walden, co-owners of Sound and Fury Productions who produced Sweet Misery will soon have a new documentary to release titled Sweet Remedy. A remedy is needed to save aspartame victims. Cori Brackett is an aspartame victim who was diagnosed with MS. Off aspartame she walked out of her wheelchair to make this film. Eight months off aspartame her large lesion all but disappeared.

Obviously the first step is a ban and efforts continue around the world. Stephen Fox has petitioned the Environmental Improvement Board and Board of Pharmacy to ban it from New Mexico. Robin Goodwin has asked for a ban in the Falkland Islands and Lane Shore has asked it be removed from schools in Illinois. Attorneys are taking aspartame brain tumor cases in New York, New Jersey, Madison County Illinois and Mississippi. See form on wnho.net.

Aspartame is marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, Benevia, etc. For those who have used the toxin, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., wrote "What To Do If You Have Used Aspartame".

For the whole story and time line read the Ecologist's cover story, "The Shocking Story of the World's Best Selling Sweetener".

Read on for the breaking news. I leave the aspartame manufacturers who with full knowledge knew they were marketing a neurotoxic drug, the words of Mohammed Ali: "You can run but you can't hide!" And especially today we add the immortal admonition of another great athlete, baseball's Satchel Paige: "Never look back, something might be gaining on you!" It's the victims you poisoned.

Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum., Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia
30097 770 242-2599 
www.wnho.net and
www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center, holisticmed.com/aspartame

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Two Articles in the Guardian:

MP calls for ban on 'unsafe' sweetener

Safety of artificial sweetener called into question by MP

One of the press articles on this debate quotes UK health minister Carole Flint as defending the sweetener's safety. Betty Martini has a reply:

To Caroline Flint, Public Health Minister

The Daily Mail has quoted you:

"Responding for the Government, Public Health Minister Caroline Flint said an independent review of aspartame had been conducted in 2001. She said the Food Standards Agency advice remained that aspartame is safe for use in food. "I am advised that aspartame does not cause cancer," she said."

You say you were "advised", but as Public Health Minister with the health interests of the UK at stake, don't you think you should have researched the issue? There are front groups for the aspartame industry like the Calorie Control Council who will advise all day long that aspartame is safe with full knowledge its not.

I believe I have more concern for the health of the people of Europe than you do because I came to England not to "advise" but to document the facts on aspartame beyond any shadow of a doubt. The lives of the people are at stake. It was obvious the aspartame industry knew I was coming. I was met with "follow me" by immigration. They didn't even ask my name. Immediately one of their people went through my suitcases and confiscated every record on aspartame including books by the experts. They knew exactly what they were looking for. I was detained three and a half hours. Immigration even wanted to know how many people would be at each of my lectures.

Finally I was taken to a physician and when I asked why was told since I had been on a plane so long from the US they wanted to be sure I was in condition to be interrogated. I asked, "What right have you to interrogate me"? Interestingly, they put Dr. H. J. Roberts medical text on the global plague they had confiscated on his desk: "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic". You can get a copy at sunsentpress.com. The physician exclaimed, Aspartame, I use it. Not particularly trying to be humorous I said, "you can die". He said, "but I'm diabetic!" I responded, "then you may die first". I explained H. J. Roberts, M.D., who declared aspartame disease to be a global plague says aspartame can precipitate diabetes, aggravates and simulates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve and interacts with insulin. Dr. Roberts is a diabetic specialist. He looked through the book and became very concerned. He finally told the officials "let her go and give back all her material".

Yes, the aspartame industry was very concerned people in the UK were going to get a lot of facts and they wanted to know all about it. Cowan McKenna Litigation firm sent a mole to record my lecture in Shrewsbury. It was very obvious with such professional equipment. But I wanted them to know too we had the facts and gave the young lady a packet of material.

Then I flew to Brussels with a representative of our Mission Possible UK to meet with the EU, specifically Miguel Angel Granero-Rosell and Peter Wagstaffe. I brought them the records they needed to have to document aspartame is a deadly neurotoxic drug unfit for human consumption. First I gave them the government documents, the original Board of Inquiry report of the FDA revoking the petition for approval, along with the famed Dr. John Olney's testimony to the Board on the damage aspartame would do to the brains of our children if approved and especially in combination with glutamate. Dr. Olney is one of the most renowned neuroscientists in the world today. You can go to dorway.com and read his CV. He founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity after doing studies on aspartic acid, 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D, wrote the book on it, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. An excitotoxin is a product that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain to death. The FDA agreed with Dr. Olney, no doubt o