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aspartame seller Merisant has worse sales and assets, with more losses, since 2004: Gold: Murray 2007.07.04
aspartame seller Merisant has worse sales and assets, with more
losses, since 2004: Gold: Murray 2007.07.04 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1449 From: E Bryant Holman 2007.07.04 8:03 am http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/ List Owner 1,050 members, 20,946 posts since 1998.12.31 If anyone here happens to be a member of the Activist List, they should forward this to that group. I was banned by the owner for spurious reasons, and he claims to be an aspartame activist, too! ----- Original Message ----- From: E Bryant Holman To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 8:59 AM Subject: [Aspartame Support] Aspartame seller hit financially by slowing sales This is a bulletin from Mark Gold, a leading aspartame researcher. This article is a good indication of the success we have had in making people aware of aspartame dangers. Gold's website, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/, is the leading aspartame site, getting the most hits on the internet, and listed at the top of the search engines for that reason. He has a link to our support group's page on his site. Gold is the person who investigated and reported that the board that was set up by the European Union to evaluate the first Ramazinni Institute report on aspartame safety actually consisted of people working for aspartame related industries -- although this caused some embarrassment for them, they simply issued, in the end, a pronouncement that their obviously corrupt ties would have no bearing on their decision making process! Bryant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Gold" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:36 PM Subject: Merisant Financials Update & Opinion Merisant Financials Update & Opinion ------------------------------------ Merisant markets the slow poison, aspartame, to consumers under the brand names: Equal, Canderel (Europe), Misura/Mivida (Italy), Sucaryl (Argentina, Mexico) and Chuker (Argentina). Net Sales --------- Year Sales 2004 $347,700,000 2005 $304,964,000 (12% decrease) 2006 $293,900,000 (4% decrease) 2007 1st Quarter sales is down compared to the 1st Quarter of 2006. 2007 1st Quarter sales down 3% in North America; 8% in Europe/Middle East; 17% in Latin America. Decreases partially offset by 88% increase in sales in Asia/Pacific -- primarily Australia and India. Sales in Asia/Pacific is still small, but they had an increase due to new distributor agreements. Net Gains/Losses ---------------- Year Amount 2004 -$18,544,000 (Net Loss) 2005 -$17,150,000 (Net Loss) 2006 -$52,161,000 (Net Loss) 2007 1st Quarter Net Loss was $12,072,000. Total Current Assets (Cash, Inventories, Accounts Receivable, etc.) -------------------- Year Assets 2004 $133,826,000 2005 $128,630,000 2006 $119,208,000 2007 $112,216,000 (1st Quarter) Total Assets (including property, trademarkets, etc.) ------------ Year Assets 2004 $535,574,000 2005 $500,225,000 2006 $452,117,000 2007 $436,158,000 (1st Quarter) Total Liabilities ----------------- Year Liabilities 2004 $651,031,000 2005 $635,915,000 2006 $638,503,000 2007 $628,377,000 (1st Quarter) As of July 2, 2007, Merisant's license agreement with NutraSweet was terminated according to year 10K Form filed in 2007. This means that Merisant can no longer sell products using the NutraSweet trade name. Merisant is selling their "natural" sweetener, "Sweet Simplicity" at Wild Oats, Whole Foods Market, and other natural foods stores. Unfortunately, purchasing their natural sweetener helps fund their sale of poison (in the form of aspartame) throughout the world. Summary -------------- Net Sales dropping every year. Net Losses increasing every year. Assets declining every year. Liabilities staying nearly the same (declining very slightly). As information about aspartame toxicity continues to be shared, Merisant will hopefully stop selling poison to consumers and focus on non-toxic products. Mark Gold Aspartame/NutraSweet Toxicity Info Center 12 East Side Dr., #2-17 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2110 www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/ http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame.../methanol.html "Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/957 safety of aspartame Part 1/2 12.4.2: EC HCPD-G SCF: Murray 2003.01.12 EU Scientific Committee on Food, a whitewash http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1045 http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame...2-response.htm Mark Gold exhaustively critiques European Commission Scientific Committee on Food re aspartame ( 2002.12.04 ): 59 pages, 230 references ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority, to actively find, quickly share, and positively act upon the facts about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment." Rich Murray, MA Room For All 505-501-2298 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages group with 78 members, 1,449 posts in a public, searchable archive http://RMForAll.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1448 Sweet Misery -- A Poisoned World, free full 90 minute video on aspartame toxicity, Cori Brackett, Sound and Fury Productions Inc., video.google.com: Murray 2007.07.04 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1443 Safe Food Campaign wants ban on aspartame in schools in New Zealand: Murray 2007.06.21 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1442 Wellington, NZ lady, 25, free by 24 hours of severe muscle cramps (5 months) after quitting 4-8 packs daily aspartame chewing gum (past few years): Murray 2007.06.20 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1441 Lifetime exposure to low doses of aspartame beginning during prenatal life increases cancer effects in rats, Morando Soffritti et al, European Ramazzini Foundation, USA EPA Environmental Health Perspectives 2007.06.13 free full text 24 pages: Murray 2007.06.16 www.ehponline.org/members/2007/10271/10271.pdf free full text 24 pages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1437 stevia to be approved and cyclamates limited by Food Standards Australia New Zealand: JMC Geuns critiques of two recent stevia studies by Nunes: Murray 2007.05.29 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1427 more from The Independent, UK, Martin Hickman, re ASDA (unit of Wal-Mart Stores) and Marks & Spencer ban of aspartame, MSG, artificial chemical additives and dyes to prevent ADHD in kids: Murray 2007.05.16 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/hea...cle2548747.ece http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1426 ASDA (unit of Wal-Mart Stores WMT.N) and Marks & Spencer will join Tesco and also Sainsbury to ban and limit aspartame, MSG, artificial flavors dyes preservatives additives, trans fats, salt "nasties" to protect kids from ADHD: leading UK media: Murray 2007.05.15 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1271 combining aspartame and quinoline yellow, or MSG and brilliant blue, harms nerve cells, eminent C. Vyvyan Howard et al, 2005 education.guardian.co.uk, Felicity Lawrence: Murray 2005.12.21 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1277 50% UK baby food is now organic -- aspartame or MSG with food dyes harm nerve cells, CV Howard 3 year study funded by Lizzy Vann, CEO, Organix Brands, Children's Food Advisory Service: Murray 2006.01.13 formaldehyde as a potent unexamined cofactor in cancer research -- sources include methanol, dark wines and liquors, aspartame, wood and tobacco smoke: IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans implicate formaldehyde in #88 and alcohol drinks in #96: some related abstracts: Murray 2007.05.15 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1417 aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity research summary: Rich Murray 2007.06.16 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1404 One liter aspartame diet soda, about 3 12-oz cans, gives 61.5 mg methanol, so if 30% is turned into formaldehyde, the formaldehyde dose of 18.5 mg is 37 times the recent EPA limit of 0.5 mg per liter daily drinking water for a 10-kg child: http://www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/F...de_summary.pdf 2007.01.05 [ does not discuss formaldehyde from methanol or aspartame ] http://www.epa.gov/teach/teachsurvey.html comments http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340 aspartame groups and books: updated research review of 2004.07.16: Murray 2006.05.11 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1395 Aspartame Controversy, in Wikipedia democratic encyclopedia, 72 references (including AspartameNM # 864 and 1173 by Murray), brief fair summary of much more research: Murray 2007.01.01 Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide similar levels of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans. Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde, and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes of the dreaded symptoms of "next morning" hangover. Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame in 2 L diet soda, almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol). If 30% of the methanol is turned into formaldehyde, the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg, is 18.5 times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in drinking water, 2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1286 methanol products (formaldehyde and formic acid) are main cause of alcohol hangover symptoms [same as from similar amounts of methanol, the 11% part of aspartame]: YS Woo et al, 2005 Dec: Murray 2006.01.20 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143 methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke: Murray 2005.04.02 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1447 second study by expert Greek team of neurotoxicity in infant rats by aspartame (or its parts, methanol, phenylalanine, aspartic acid), KH Schulpis et al, Toxicology 2007.05.18: Murray 2007.07.04 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1444 expert Greek group finds aspartame (or its parts, methanol, phenylalanine, aspartic acid) harm infant rat brain enzyme activity, KH Schulpis et al, Pharmacol. Res. 2007.05.13: Murray 2007.06.23 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// |
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