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The European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, has recently announced that they will again review the safety of aspartame, a controversial artificial sweetener that is a combination of two isolated amino acids and methanol. This new review comes after the agency whitewashed and glossed over the studies of the Italian Ramazzini Cancer research institute that had shown aspartame to be a carcinogen.

Aspartame's approval by the US FDA in the 1980s, says Betty Martini of Mission Possible World Health International, was a political decision, taken over the objection of the FDA's own scientific panel. Studies used to obtain approval were sanitized, to hide damaging effects the sweetener had on laboratory animals and eventually, Donald Rumsfeld was brought in to push through the approval.

The European Food Safety Authority has recently published a number of studies that their new review will be based on, all "in the name of transparency". But they are missing all the good stuff, says Martini.

Here is what she has written to the European Parliament, which ordered the Food Safety Authority to do this new evaluation:

REPORT TO PARLIAMENT: EFSA CHEATS ABOUT ASPARTAME

The European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, released industry studies they said were in the spirit of openness and transparency, but leaving out independent peer reviewed studies and aspartame's history of corruption.  It was anticipated.  Ajinomoto said they were confident aspartame would be found safe. Are they working together? 

See the in-depth report on studies EFSA released by Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center:

Don't miss a word of it. This includes the history and statements from the Task Force on aspartame, which were so detrimental to G. D. Searle they sued to get them removed from the record. There are no secrets.  They went to every length to hide the fraud. The defense team hired the Justice Department prosecutors when the FDA called for Searle to be indicted for fraud.

  With the constant stream of "independent" studies showing aspartame's deadly effects from heart attacks to cancer Parliament and EU said another review was needed.   Of particular interest is a Danish study on 60,000 women showing aspartame can jump preterm birth rates 78%.  Parliament has every reason to be concerned.  The FDA admitted aspartame causes birth defects, and then sealed the records. We recovered and restored them to the Bressler Report.  Pediatric professor of genetics, Dr. Louis Elsas, testified before Congress his concerns, yet the bill to put a moratorium on aspartame and have NIH do independent studies on the problems being seen in the population like effect to the fetus, drug interaction and behavioral problems in children, etc, never got out of committee.

Now Parliament wants a warning for pregnant women and industry says no warning is needed. They know a warning of birth defects means aspartame is no additive.  It's an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic and genetically engineered drug and adjuvant that damages the mitochondria or powerhouse of the cell and interacts with drugs and vaccines.  The methanol is classified as a narcotic and causes chronic methanol poisoning. This affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes addiction. 

It was obvious what was going to happen ... 

• Equivalent of 42 litres a week costs him £3,000 a year

• Habit is now so bad he can't leave house without a bottle with him

• 'When I don't have it my family says I'm a nightmare to be around'

A man has told how a lifelong addiction to Diet Coke has come to dominate his life.

Darren Jones, 38, can't go a day without downing 18 cans of the soft drink - the equivalent of 42 litres a week, costing him around £3,000 a year.

Over the past decade his habit has gradually worsened and now he can't leave the house without a bottle of Coca Cola.

I'll have a Coke: Darren Jones, 38, has been downing 18 cans a day for the past ten

years - the equivalent of 42 litres a week

(NaturalNews) If you've been diligently avoiding the consumption of chemical sweeteners like sucralose, you may be alarmed to learn that researchers have found sucralose lurking in the drinking water supply of more than 28 million Americans.

A recent study tested water samples from 19 water treatment plants in the United States serving more than 28 million people. Researchers analyzed the samples for the artificial sweetener sucralose. Samples tested positive for sucralose in the source water of 15 out of 19 plants. Furthermore, treatment failed to remove the sucralose from the drinking water: sucralose was also found in the finished drinking water from 13 out of 19 plants.

Researchers determined that current water treatment methods fail to effectively remove sucralose from our water supply, leaving millions of Americans to unknowingly consume this artificial sweetener every single day.

FREE DIANE FLEMING

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Telephone: 770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com

Let's especially use this weekend to keep the Diane Fleming story in the news, and the issue of the methanol better known. Here are two articles that explain how serious the issue is: http://www.mpwhi.com/is_aspartame_safe_or_killing_us.htm and http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_violates_data_quality_act.htm The methanol issue will be taken into consideration in the new review by the European Food Safety Authority.

We certainly need to write Congress, or you can send them this letter. Giving the FDA more power was not the thing to do. If its not the cherry growers or the walnut company they attack they're busy raiding farms and trying to call our food drugs. Yet they have allowed this adulterated, addictive, genetically engineered drug and adjuvant aspartame, to remain on the market as it blinds from the methanol and causes cancer and birth defects, precipitates or triggers neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes and is responsible for an obesity epidemic along with MSG. Aspartame ravages every organ in the body. The formaldehyde converted from the methanol embalms living tissue and damages DNA which can destroy humanity. (Trocho Study). It causes sudden cardiac death.

You can email me at BettyM19@mindspring.com for the Aspartame Resource Guide which gives medical texts, detox and information on the safe sweetener, Just Like Sugar. It also contains the history of how aspartame was marketed after the FDA revoked the petition for approval.

Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible World Health International
September 3, 2011

This is the candid confession of Dr. Herman Koeter, head of the European Food Safety Authority, after resigning from the corrupted agency. His conscience got the best of him.

PICTURE THIS: A powerful multinational gang of criminals has been operating for years completely protected from prosecution by any enforcement agency. Finally the count of murders and maimings has raised a public outcry that can’t be ignored, so a special government tribunal is charged to investigate the atrocities.

The tribunal is given voluminous evidence with a multitude of victim’s testimonies that defy contradiction and confirm the guilt of the gang. 20 “experts” are to weigh the evidence, well qualified to understand the technical nature of the matter at hand. Things are looking up, soon the carnage will end and EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, shall announce to the world that aspartame is a deadly neurotoxin, unsafe for humans in any form.

But eleven of the “experts” have connections with the aspartame industry, are enriched by it. Somehow the evidence is “lost”, So EFSA declares this chemical poison is safe as rain. safe for babies, safe for children, safe for pregnant mothers, safe for diabetics, safe for everybody!

On 6/11/2011 the watchdog organization, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) named the eleven industry flacks in the aspartame whitewash. The report begins: ”New research by CEO has identified conflict of interest among the scientific experts advising EFSA on the safety of food additives, including the controversial sweetener aspartame. Not only were EFSA’S own rules on conflicts of interest breached in some cases, but that these rules fail to protect the public from potentially industry-biased opinions on food safety.” Think of it this way: the Godfather is on trial, and half the jury is in the Corleone Family.

For 30 years the American Diabetes Assn has rejected all evidence that aspartame is deadly, you see, they've been on the take from the poison producers whom they really represent. At last the truth is confessed by two reports at an ADA Conference. Like they say: "Murder will out". See my analysis following their confession.

http://www.beveragedaily.com/content/view/print/383456

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/255633/Diet-drinks-make-you-fat

http://www.fitsugar.com/Diet-Soda-Leads-Weight-Gain-New-Studies-Find-18073646

Another Study Says It: Diet Soda Leads to Weight Gain

Study after study has told us to watch out for those empty, sugary calories in sweetened drinks like soda, but two new studies remind us about the dangers of diet soda - they too can lead to weight gain and may raise your risk for developing diabetes.

The studies were presented at a diabetes conference this weekend, and together they show that drinking diet soda may just be another thing in our diets that is making us fat. One study followed 474 older-age diet-soda drinkers and found that their waistlines grew 70 percent more than non-diet-soda drinkers, even when the researchers accounted for differences in age, physical activity level, and diabetes status.

The news gets worse; read on for how bad a two-diets-a-day habit is for your waistline.

Confectionary News

By Jane Byrne

June 27, 2011

November 2011 should see steviol glycosides get regulatory backing for use in food in drink products in the European market, according to a European Commission (EC) representative.

Bringing industry up to date on the regulatory timeline, Wim Debeuckelaere from the Directorate General for Health and Consumers (DG Sanco) told delegates at the Stevia 2011 conference in London last week that the natural sweetener is on schedule for sanction by the EC in “November or December at the latest.”

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) gave a positive safety opinion on steviol glycosides in April 2010, in line with the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which approves the use of steviol glycosides at 95 per cent purity or above.

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.

May 23, 2011 by Infowars Ireland

Saad Ali and Anthony

WeAreChange Chicago

May 23, 2011

CHICAGO, IL- Former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, strolled into Chicago on May 17, 2011, for a speech at the globalist think tank, Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The audience was mainly comprised of your average "Coke drinking, McDonald's eating" yuppie, ready to bow down to Mr. Rumsfeld. They clapped and cheered as he approached the podium and delivered his globalist speech. The praising of such a criminal was mind blowing, and something had to be done. Mr. Rumsfeld's "accomplishments" have caused humanitarian suffering worldwide.

Aspartame, the artificial sweetener, is made of two amino acids bound together by a molecule of methanol. The white powder is sweeter than sugar, and its purpose is to give you the sweet without the calories. A great idea, but is it really?

There are many indications that aspartame is not as healthy an alternative to sugar as its creators and vendors would have us believe. The isolated amino acids excite neural activity leading to effects on the brain and the methanol binder degrades into a nasty poison in the bodies of consumers. Research to prove those effects however is hard to come by. After all, the manufacturer has no reason to provide evidence that would end a winning streak of profitability.

Dr. Morando Soffritti at the Italian Ramazzini Foundation fed aspartame to mice and rats and found it had a multi-potential carcinogenic effect. An Icelandic university researcher found that the consumption of those artificially sweetened soft drinks was associated with premature termination of pregnancy in a study of Danish women. Numerous "anecdotal" reports of effects on the brain and the nerves have been compiled, but they are of course not scientific enough to catch the attention of the health authorities. The FDA has stopped accepting complaints and reports of aspartame related side effects soon after it became clear that they would have to take action if complaints continued to pile up. The international committees in charge of evaluating additives have "reviewed the evidence", meaning the studies that were sanitized and provided to them by the manufacturers, and they cannot find anything wrong.

And so we are left with a sweetener that is sold all over the world, consumed by hundreds of millions of people. Its effects are devastating to many, but there seems to be no way to make the health authorities pay heed. Hundreds of complaints of those suffering aspartame's effects have come to the attention of two members of the European Parliament, Corinne Lepage and Antonyia Parvanova. They organized a seminar to try and force action on the part of the European Commission and the agencies responsible for health and consumer protection.

Their frustration is pulpable when they say that we are being taken for a ride...

ASPARTAME: The European Health authorities play a fools game

Two members of the European Parliament organized a seminar on the possible dangers of Aspartame, the controversal artificial sweetener manufactured first by Searle and now by the Japanese Ajinomoto. Aspartame is present in thousands of products, including a few hundred medicines, particularly meds for children. Studies have shown it to be associated with cancer and other deleterious health effects. Aspartame consumers have told horror stories of its effects. Yet, our health authorities show no will to warn consumers or even to pro-actively look into aspartame's effects.

Corinne Lepage expressed her shock "by the failure to examine the subject more thoroughly, and the close links that have been established between industry, the EFSA and the Commission, each one passing the buck to the others. This attitude has meant that looking at the health effects of aspartame is no longer taken seriously."

For Antonyia Parvanova, "Aspartame is a substance to which millions of consumers are exposed on a daily basis. For this reason, and even if there is only a hint of risk, the European health authorities should commit themselves proactively to the gathering of data and the supervision of complementary and independent studies, instead of being passive and waiting for additional data to come to them".

In a more recent development, the European Parliament's Environment Committee is now pushing for a warning label on aspartame.

The European Parliament's Environment committee is pushing for a warning label on products containing aspartame stating that they may not be suitable for pregnant women - despite opinions from EFSA and the French food safety ANSES that scientific evidence does not warrant a reconsideration of the sweetener's safety.

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