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I hope everyone is not tired of hearing how deadly aspartame is...
I just find it amazing how often this information pops up (on
alternative news/health postings) but it never makes it into
the "mainstream"!! I just keep thinking that if this information
circulates enough it will perculate into the larger society... We
will see...

Be Well, Misty
http://www.searching-alternatives.com

Former FDA Investigator Exposes Aspartame As Deadly Neurotoxin
That Never Should
Have Been Approved
From Betty Martini
Bettym19@mindspring.com
4-22-3

To all my neighbors of all nations, here is an Open Statement
concerning the artificial sweetner, Aspartame, by Arthur M.
Evangelista, a former FDA Investigator...

I am a former investigator who worked with the US Food and Drug
Administration: This is what I have to say about Aspartame and the
people who brought it to our tables.

As a former FDA investigator, I was charged with overseeing two
major projects for the FDA. These concerned Pesticides and Chemicals
in Foods and Illegal Drug Tissue Residues in Animals (including milk
related issues).

I worked closely with the sister Federal and State agencies, oversaw
contracts, I was a co-ordinator and lead investigator on projects
involving EPA and USDA. The FDA, in the mid-70's to mid-90's was not
a large organization, having an annual budget no greater than a
medium-sized hospital by 1995.

The problems with aspartame include not only the biochemical nature
of this toxin but also it sheds light on the political nature of the
players involved. The changes in regulatory policies and regulations
resulting from corporate-government ties and the politicians closely
associated with these ties.

What I can tell you, regarding toxicology, histology and
biochemistry, is that aspartame is neurotoxic. Its components easily
transcend the blood-brain barrier, interfering with normal nerve
cell function. This affects the glutathione and calcium mechanisms
in place, destroying nerve call integrity. The methanol then breaks
down into formaldehyde-formic acid components, which
denaturizes/mutates the DNA: a known scientific fact. The subsequent
result from this interaction and from isolates of genetically
modified amino acids, the methanol, is nerve cell necrosis and
subsequent organ system degradation.

The hypothalamus alone (the major controller for much of the
endocrine system), is at especially high risk to these
effects...thereby, affecting many other organ systems. I have seen
first hand the effects on symptoms when individuals have abstained
from ingesting the artificial sweetener, aspartame. Make no bones
about it, aspartame is a major factor in many symptomologies due to
its effects upon brain chemistry.

ORGANIZED RHETORIC

Coming from a family and relatives of physicians, I know only too
well that if there was even a chance that something was wrong with a
patient, a truly committed physician would thoroughly investigate
any etiology (or cause) regarding an illness (both chronic and sub
chronic), rather than retain a close-minded approach to the
available data. This just boggles my mind when those, who are
supposed to know better; choose to adhere to the organized rhetoric
of industry-backed misinformation, without giving the true
scientific facts an opportunity to sink in. At the least, consider
the possibilities. I guarantee, the truth will then become self-
evident!

The biggest lie told, is one of self-deceit; not to mention, all the
people made ill and killed in the process of 'ignorant medicine' eg
a doctor has sold his skills and MD diploma to industrial chemical
manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms or even to governmental
associations!! Money is money...right,Doc?

Prior to the approval of aspartame, the FDA sent two specialized
teams to G.D. Searle and found a ghastly 95% level of misdirected
testing; concealed tests, collusion between corporate and their
company-funded research; inappropriate antemortum issues;
withholding of material facts; alterations of records: lying to
investigators, lost records, no records; falsification of reports,
bribery, poor test methodology or design...et al.

FDA investigators Brodsky and Bressler, both seasoned federal
investigators, each led investigative teams to review Searle's lab
practices. These practices at Searle were despicable and should have
been thrown out. This is a fact. The actual report are displayed on
http://www.dorway.com Unfortunately, many ethics in the law were
also violated during this time period, by the various government
departments in the USA. This was further corrupted by politicians
involved with corporate constituents who in turn affected the
regulatory process in favour of these constituents. Another name for
this, of course, is 'bribery'.

FAVORABLE INFLUENCES

This was nothing less than full-blown collusion. The 'revolving
door' at the FDA, is very much a reality. Former corporate
officials, who began working for the Food and Drug Administration
(and vice versa), were very cavalier about issues uncovered at
Searle surrounding their drug processing and issues involved with
aspartame. Some, with a hidden agenda of promised secret money or
better jobs, actively hindered the investigation into G. D. Searle's
laboratory practices. It is obvious when you see the records and
numbers and where those jobs were. These are a matter of public and
Congressional Record. Subsequently, many former FDA officials, due
to their 'favorable influences' with regulatory enforcement and
rulings, were in fact, rewarded with corporate positions and
lucrative incomes, including former FDA Commissioner Arthur Hull
Hayes, who was about to be brought up on ethics and misconduct
charges!

The whole process was (is still) rotten throughout. The various
dependent research completed on aspartame proves this (in part,a
chemical warfare agent) is a neurotoxin. It is unlike any other
compound on the market. Each of its three components are toxic.

The only people I have met or communicated with, who have
steadfastly refused to look at this picture for what it is, have
been found to have other agendas, other than the truth. Not even a
sceptic, like my brother ( a chief microbiologist) could ignore the
factual evidence of aspartame's neurotoxicity when presented with
the evidence. Being a sceptic is one thing, but to deny the
evidence, the motives and the pieces of a rather complex and sordid
puzzle with common denominators, is ludicrous; you would have to be
braindead. To still adhere to the narrow focus of the corporate spin-
doctors and corporate-back rhetoric from federal regulators, means
that you have clearly chosen to purposefully close your mind to the
evidence and/o you are operating with a pro-industry (hidden)
agenda.

There is rampant corruption in these processes and it behoves all
educated, law enforcement and scientific-minded individuals to look
at the entire picture to piece together one of the biggest
travesties in public health history. The common thread which ties
everything together is; the strong political influences, the
monumental amounts of money used to purchase the souls of those who
have placed greed above common sense, public health and the trust of
public office.

REMEMBER AGENT ORANGE?

As an investigator, I found this hard to believe at first, that so
many factors have come together to collude in such a way, to allow
aspartame into our food supply. Regardless of how I initially felt
about it, the evidence is factual ....it happened. Now we have to do
something about it, because it is nothing less than MASS MURDER.

Additionally and historically, many recalled products, including FDA
regulated products, were once thought safe. DDT was once thought to
be safe, remember?

History of the regulatory problems, fraud, deceit and scientific
corruption with various drug products would serve you well to
remember here.

Regulatory problems and corruption resulting in mass-illness or
deaths with various prescription drugs and drug-tissue residues in
foods (antibiotics) which was known by the FDA since the mid 80's,
perpetuating further our problems with antibiotic resistant germs.

Remember Agent Orange? How long did it take the US government to
even acknowledge that there was a problem with spraying a dioxin
compound all over the Asian forests during Vietnam? Monsanto never
said a word during this period; no chemical manufacturer did. It was
years before the veterans, who gave their lives or whose lives were
ruined, were even given the acknowledgement that there was a
problem. The Gulf War Veterans were in the same boat for a while.
Maybe someone will pay attention to their plight.

Many policies, I found out, were not made to protect the public
health, but rather, to provide leverage at appropriation time before
Congress and to protect the industry and their political government.
This is especially true when they were paid for their 'services' by
the pharmaceutical or chemical industries. This is what I
call 'social cancer'. Many systems for protecting the public health
are (were) less than effective...making very little difference on
public health issues. Much of it was for 'show' and for funding. It
was the folks in Rockville and Washington who made the final
decisions on how to play most of these issues out. Unfortunately for
us, it was not to favor the public health processes. The entire
process reeks of political and corporate influence. Many mainstream
media newscats and reports have exposed this problem.

SPIN-DOCTORS

There are regulatory or enforcement agencies that have questionably
close ties with industry, aside from an unethical revolving door.
These ties are even illegal in some aspects and compromise an
agency's ability to regulate. It compromises not only the integrity
of the agency, but the information being disseminated, as well.
Everything becomes suspect. Then the spin-doctors are called into
action.

THE EVIDENCE IS THERE

So tell me then, why do government agencies support and make
policies around industrial concerns, like pharmaceutical or chemical
manufacturing firms? The answer is easy: Money and/or power! Why
aren't government agencies remaining impartial? Somebody has a
little influence, that is why and, this influence is not in the
public's best interest. Follow the money trail.

The truth has been difficult to come by. Investigators, lay people,
teachers, educators, regulators and whistleblowers have, piece by
piece, put this highly complex puzzle together and now see this
issue for what it is. The evidence is there. Unfortunately, I have
found that many physicians, including those who can make substantial
incomes from treating the effects of the neurotoxin aspartame (and
other medically 'healable' issues) would rather people did not find
out about its effects on brain chemistry. Giving doctors the benefit
of the doubt, if they do not consider aspartame poisoning as a cause
for concern or instigator of symptoms, they are simply not very good
investigators. Then may be the doctor should try carpentry or other
non-patient related work.

In truth, doctors have a business. This is a sub-set of business
treatment practices that is making money based on the introduction
of a poisonous product. I also found out that the large government
health association and many other so-called health groups, have
received substantial money, contributions, or stipends from industry
regarding their products.

BUSINESS GOES BEFORE PUBLIC HEALTH

This includes certain public health associations - the very people
who are supposed to be helping the public, who for legal reasons
cannot be named here, they like many others, diabolically support
aspartame and the money it has made them. They are businesses... and
business goes before public health. Look at any health association
and check out the list of their contributors and tell me what you
see.

FACTS:

Regarding aspartame, I have written articles about this substance,
they explained the processes that allowed aspartame into the
marketplace, through various reports and information uncovered
whilst I was with the agency and afterwards, with the help of other
investigators and agency data. Much of this information is available
for review, you can draw your own conclusions.

Open your mind. Know that the government-corporate issues have
shocked us before, to our collective dismay. I urge you to consider
all the factors; ... the political, physiological and regulatory
processes which created the mistaken and unfortunate acceptance of
this toxin in our food supply. This information is not 'what I
think' nor how I feel...

...It is a fact, that ASPARTAME SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN APPROVED
based on the information submitted to the FDA, including the
information that was not submitted. It is a fact that politics and
those with 'hidden agendas' illegally affected the regulatory
processes, misused and abused their authority, to bring to market
this toxic food additive.

If you drink aspartame and have experienced health problems, then
cease your consumption of it (and its cousin MSG) for 60 days and
see if your symptoms disappear. You have nothing to lose. If you do
not follow this simple experiment for 60 days, you could lose your
life. Additionally, educate yourselves. It is your body, your health
and your life.

BE WISE:

For further information see the following websites:
http://www.dorway.com Experts on Aspartame, government records, UPI
and CDC investigations, books by physicians, protest of National
Soft Drink Assn, Class Action, support groups,Etc.
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame Aspartame Toxicity Center
http://www.truthinlabeling.org MSG
http://www.sunsentpress.com Books by H. J. Roberts, M.D. including
Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, medical text on global
plague
http://www.ana-jana.org Russell Blaylock, M.D.,neurosurgeon, book,
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on aspartame and MSG and his new
book on how to get well, Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your
Life. or www.amazon.com

Note from Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl
(www.dorway.com - 770 242-2599), global unpaid volunteer force
warning the world off aspartame: Updates: The European Parliament
has voted to re-examine aspartame. They will also examine Stevia
which got outlawed for no reason except to keep consumers using the
toxin aspartame. There are at least 500 studies on Stevia showing
safety and you can contact the Stevita Company in Dallas, Texas,
Oscar Rodes (petro@mindspring.com). The actual consumption by humans
without a single report of undesired side effects over a long period
of time (30 years in Japan, 15 years in Brazil in the extract form,
and centuries in Paraguay and Brazil on the leaves form)
demonstrates that the product is safe for its intended use - that is
as a sweetener. It is the salvation of diabetics as it helps in the
metabolism of sugar whereas aspartame can precipitate diabetes,
keeps blood sugar out of control, destroys the optic nerve, can
cause diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with
insulin. It is particularly pushed on diabetics. It has caused an
epidemic of diabetes and obesity, as it is a drug that makes you
crave carbohydrates so you gain weight. See protest of National Soft
Drink Association on www.dorway.com and Aspartame Makes You Fatter
by Sandra Cabot, M.D. Also read Aspartame and Diabetes and
Hypoglycemia by diabetic specialist H. J. Roberts, M.D.

No drug is safe on the market as long as aspartame exists as it
interacts with just about every drug used to treat the problems it
causes completely outlined in a chapter on drug interaction in
Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by Roberts. One out of four
are having drug interactions! Two-thirds of the population in
America and 40% of our children are using this deadly chemical
poison that interacts with drugs and as a chemical
hypersensitization agent interacts with vaccines, other toxins and
unsafe additives.

I have filed a Citizens Petition with the FDA based on the fact
their records show aspartame to be deadly and yet they lie to the
public. They have been told not to send their FDA propaganda rag,
the FDA Consumer or a packet of Federal Registers. The law requires
they answer in six months. It has been 10 months and they have not
answered. To read the entire Board of Inquiry report of the FDA
saying not to approve aspartame and the famed Dr. John Olney's paper
to the Board of Inquiry telling them what would happen to the brains
of our children go to www.greatfallspro.com Mission Possible Maine.
They supply special equipment to read the original documents.

Please contact Betty Martini, Bettym19@mindspring.com (770 242-2599)
if you have suffered brain tumors, seizures or blindness or eye
deterioration from aspartame for class action.

I leave you with the profound words of James Bowen, M.D., who has
Lou Gehrigs from aspartame in his paper Aspartame Murders Infants,
Violates Federal Domestic GEnocide Law: "Aspartame is sold as
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderel, Benevia, E951, etc., and is
in thousands of foods and diet drinks. At every point in the
fertility process aspartame destroys, beginning with the gleam in
Mom and Pop's eyes. It ruins female sexual response and induces male
sexual dysfunction. Beyond this, aspartame disrupts fetal
development by aborting it or inducing defects. And if a live child
is born aspartame may have heinously damaged the DNA of the baby,
cursing future generations."

Is NutraSweet a Neurotoxin? You bet your aspartame! It's only
appropriate use is as a rat killer and to kill fire ants.

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