Aspartame, the FDA, Bees and Mobile Phones - NewsGrabs 22 April 2007

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In this issue:

Australia: Pan Pharmaceuticals Witch Hunt - Antoine Béchamp Vs. Louis Pasteur - New aspartame study - Effect of aspartame on oncogene - AIDS Vaccine Trials - Video: AIDS: DAVID CROWE SPEAKS OUT - Arcoxia - Drug industry influence, FDA corruption - FDA ON LABELING IRRADIATED FOODS - Pharma litigation - ADHD drugs? - Texas Vioxx Lawsuits on Hold - "Mental Health Lessons" from Virginia Tech - Seung-Hui Cho a Mind Controlled Assassin? - Psychiatrist Calls Diagnostic Method Dehumanizing - HRT link to ovarian cancer - Court Declines to Rule on Mercury - Nanoparticles can damage DNA - UK: fight against drugs 'a total failure' - India: GMO test data - Engineering livestock - When Bees Disappear - Mobile phones wiping out bees? - Bumblebee decline - Silent Spring, Revisited: Bee Dieoff - Cell Phones Possible Cause of Mass Disappearances of Bees - Cell phones Invisible hazards of the wireless age - Sharks - Food Giants Produce Renewable Diesel - Civilians in Space - Australian scientist debunks global warming -

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Australia: Democrats Demand Howard Apologise for Pan Pharmaceuticals Witch Hunt

For those of you who remember the Pan Pharmaceuticals mega-products-recall of more than 1500 products that targeted natural nutritional products in Australia in 2003 and broke many a small business' back: Four years later, the court finds Pan CEO Jim Selim innocent. Of course the damage has been done, and a major source of competition to pharmaceuticals was removed from the Australian market or at least heavily impeded, for a good long time.

Antoine Béchamp Vs. Louis Pasteur - Almost 100 Years Later The Truth Remains Buried To Support A Lie
Dr. Antoine Béchamp noted the importance of lifestyles as the key to prevention and success against all diseases almost 150 years ago! He backed it up with thorough scientific precision, as a practicing physician and researcher who was degreed in and a university professor of chemistry, biology, physics and pharmacy. The sound conclusions of Béchamp for lifestyle changes such as wholesome nutrition and environmental, hygienic cleanliness were ignored in favor of other "solutions" that profited industry and required "heroic" medical interventions.

New aspartame data to be presented at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
A second study conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF) confirms the carcinogenicity of aspartame. The results of this study will be presented April 23, 2007 at the Mount Sinai Medical School of New York, where ERF Scientific Director Morando Soffritti will receive the third Irving J. Selikoff Award.

Effect of aspartame on oncogene and suppressor gene expressions in mice, Katalin Gambos, Istvan Ember, et al, University of Pecs, Hungary, In Vivo 2007 Jan; scores of their relevant past studies since 1977: Murray 2007.04.14
If the reality is that the three components of aspartame are complexly toxic in large doses for months and years for many groups of humans, then surely the inevitable exponential evolution of science will make many facets of the problems increasingly evident, and much more quickly.

All Not Well With Global AIDS Vaccine Trials
Why were phase-1 safety trials for an HIV vaccine started in India days before the release of the results of the same trial in Belgium and Germany? And why were phase-2 trials of the same vaccine conducted in Africa? But such questions have been met with a deafening silence from the India office of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) which has coordinated research and development of the vaccine.

Video: DAVID CROWE SPEAKS OUT - David Crowe, long-time AIDS dissident and President of the Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society, is interviewed by Gary Null in preparation for Gary's new video, AIDS Inc. David discusses a number of different issues, including the inaccuracy of HIV tests, the lethal nature of the HIV drugs, the lack of evidence that HIV is transmitted through heterosexual intercourse, and AIDS in Africa. To purchase the complete AIDS, Inc. video, go to www.garynull.com.

FDA whistle-blower shifts Arcoxia fight to Europe
Graham, of the agency's Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, warned an FDA advisory panel Thursday that Arcoxia would be "a potential public-health disaster" because it raises heart attack and stroke risk. The panel voted 20 to 1 against recommending approval of Arcoxia, which critics have likened to Vioxx, the arthritis drug Merck withdrew in September 2004 because of cardiovascular safety concerns. Graham said Friday that he wants to figure out how many extra strokes and heart attacks may have occurred in Europe since Arcoxia went on the market there in 2004. "I'm hoping that in Europe they reconsider this drug," he said. "It's clearly killing people."

Americans fed up with drug industry influence, FDA corruption, says Consumer Reports survey
More than four out of five Americans think drug companies have too much influence over the Food and Drug Administration, and 84 percent believe that advertisements for prescription drugs with safety concerns should be outlawed, reveals a striking new survey from Consumer Reports. The survey results, based on a telephone survey of 1,026 American adults conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center reveal the Food and Drug Administration to be alarmingly out of touch with the concerns of the American people.

FDA SEEKS TO REMOVE LABELING REQUIREMENTS FOR IRRADIATED FOODS
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed new federal regulations that will allow manufacturers and retailers to sell controversial irradiated foods without labeling them, as previously required by law. Consumers are justifiably wary of foods bombarded with nuclear waste or powerful x-rays or gamma rays--since irradiation destroys essential vitamins and nutrients, creates unique radiolytic chemical compounds never before consumed by humans, and generates carcinogenic byproducts such as formaldehyde and benzene.

Big Pharma mired in litigation
The anti-epileptic drug, Depakote (valproate), marketed by Abbott Laboratories, is one of the most heavily prescribed medications for off-label use. Experts say the evidence of harm caused by Depakote is just beginning to emerge...
Bayer is under fire for hiding the adverse effects of the anti-clotting drug, Trasylol, used in heart surgery...
Another drug on the legal chopping block