praise for second aspartame cancer rat study by Ramazzini Foundation, Morando Soffritti et al, by informed MDs -- Blaylock, Landigan, Walton, Roberts: Martini: Murray 2007.06.15

praise for second aspartame cancer rat study by Ramazzini Foundation,
Morando Soffritti et al, by informed MDs -- Blaylock, Landigan,
Walton, Roberts: Martini: Murray 2007.06.15
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1440

http://www.psywarriormatrix.com/view...?p=15893#15893

Post Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:13 pm
Post subject: New study -- low doses of aspartame cause cancer
From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. [honorary] 2007.06.15

[ Selections by Rich Murray that focus on recent comments by informed
experts.

For the free full text, 24 pages:

www.ehponline.org/members/2007/10271/10271.pdf free full text 24
pages ]

See also, for more comments by these experts:
www.sweetremedy.tv/pages/sweetmiserynews.html ]

Statement from Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD:

Dear Betty,

My review of the first Ramazzini Study concluded that the study was
one of the best designed, comprehensive and conclusive studies done to
date on the multipotent carcinogenic potential of aspartame.

This second study is even more conclusive, in that it shows a dose-
dependent statistically significant increase in lymphomas/ leukemia in
both male and female rats exposed to aspartame.
These two cancers are the fastest growing cancers in people under age
30.

Also, of major concern is their finding of statistically significant
increases in breast cancer in animals exposed to aspartame.
With newer studies clearly indicating that toxic exposures during
fetal development can dramatically increase the cancer risk of the
offspring, this study takes on a very important meaning to all
pregnant women consuming aspartame products.
Likewise, small children are at considerable risk of the later
development of these highly fatal cancers.

It should be appreciated that the doses used in these study fall
within the range of doses seen in everyday users of aspartame.
This study, along with the first study, should convince any reasonable
scientific mind, as well as the public at large, that this product
should be removed from the market.

Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

New Study -- Low Doses Of Aspartame Cause Cancer

Environmental Health Perspectives, the Journal of the U.S. National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ranks first among more than
200 environmental science and occupational health journals and is read
in 190 countries.

At New York's Mt Sinai School of Medicine DR. Morando Soffritti was
honored in April with the Irving J Selikoff Award for his outstanding
contributions to the identification of environmental and industrial
carcinogens, and his promotion of independent scientific research.

The prestigious Selikoff Award is only granted for groundbreaking
cancer research.
It was created 1993 by the Collegium Ramazzini, an academy of
180internationally renowned experts in occupational and environmental
health from over 30 nations.
It has been awarded just twice before being presented to Dr.
Soffritti.

His research was conducted for 36 months using 1,800 rats.
It forced the conclusion that aspartame is a multipotential
carcinogen.
Cancers aspartame produced included leukemia, lymphoma, kidney, and
cranial peripheral nerves among others. Only the rats fed aspartame
got malignant brain tumors.
This prodigious work was peer reviewed by 7 world experts.

This work confirmed studies presented to the FDA 25 years ago that
documented a catalogue of brain, uterine, ovarian, testicular,
mammary, pancreatic and thyroid tumors.
Based on the evidence, FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16 years
from the time it was discovered.
Then Don Rumsfeld, who after his post as Secretary of Defence in the
Ford administration, was chosen in 1977 to be the CEO of NutraSweet's
parent, the G. D. Searle Co., then later used all his extensive
Washington contacts in the newly elected Ronald Reagan
administration.

Quickly after assuming office in January, 1981, President Reagan wrote
an executive order making the FDA powerless to do anything about
aspartame until a new comissioner could be appointed to the FDA.
The existing FDA Commissioner was asked to resign.
In July, 1981 aspartame was approved by Arthur Hull Hayes, soon after
his appointment by President Reagan.
Hayes did this over the objections of the FDA's Scientific Board of
Inquiry, which had voted to revoke the petition for approval.

An Atlanta Journal Constitution article dated 9/25/85 was titled
"Reagan Says He Quit Using Sweeteners".
Also in l985 there were two congressional hearings over the outrage of
the public being poisoned.
This article states: "President Reagan says he quit using artificial
sweeteners because "we don't know what is in them,...'

Unfortunately it was too late for the public, as the U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of
NutraSweet, even though it was known that the FDA had asked for the
indictment for Searle, and revoked Searle's petition for approval.

Soffritti's new study "Lifespan Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame
Beginning During Prenatal Life Increases Cancer Effects in Rats"
focuses on damage from low-dosage aspartame consumption over the long
term.
It clearly demonstrates a great danger to unborn babies and children.
Newly identified is lifelong increased risk of breast cancer as the
aspartame exposed child matures.

Exposures were at low doses -- a 20 kg (45 pounds) child drinking 2
cans of diet soda a day brings into his body 400 mg of aspartame, 20
mg/kg body weight.

Food & Drink Weekly reports that soda is the most commonly consumed
beverage among children, and soft drink consumption is up 500% over
the last 50 years.
American consumption has skyrocketed to over 600 12-ounce servings per
person per year, and climbing.
Cokes goal is to jump sales 25% annually.

The aim of Soffritti's new study was to identify the cancer risk
aspartame presents, starting with the mother's ingestion before the
fetus is born. The study was conducted on groups of 70-95 male and
female Sprague Dawley rats, administered aspartame with feed at
concentrations of 2000, 400, or 0 ppm from the 12th day of fetal life
until natural death.

The results of this carcinogenicity bioassay confirm and reinforce the
earlier study's demonstration of aspartame's multipotential
carcinogenicity.
Further, the study demonstrates that when lifespan exposure to
aspartame begins during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects magnify.

Dr. Philip Landrigan, Chairman of Community and Environmental Medicine
at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, says the Soffritti study on rats strongly
implies human risk.
He advises parents of young children to think very very carefully
about giving drinks and other aspartame contaminated foods to
children.
He advocates federal action be taken to review regulation of
aspartame, and that the chemical be submitted for precise critical
investigation.

The abstract and link to the full text to be published on EHP online,
is on the homepage of the European Ramazzini Foundation: www.ramazzini.it

Il secondo studio Ramazzini sullaspartame in stampa sul giornale
scientifico Environmental Health Perspectives Un secondo studio sul
dolcificante artificiale aspartame, della Fondazione Europea
Ramazzini, dal titolo Lesposizione ad Aspartame a Basse Dosi, dalla
Vita Fetale e per Tutta la Vita, Aumenta gli Effetti Cancerogeni sui
Ratti, tato accettato per essere pubblicato su Environmental Health
Perspectives (EHP). Labstract e il pdf del testo completo di EHP
online, isponibile nella homepage della Fondazione Europea Ramazzini:
www.ramazzini.it

Atty. James Turner, author of the Chemical Feast and the Nader Report
on Food Protection at FDA, explains: "Since l974 FDA and the Searle
Drug Company have known that aspartame causes brain tumors in animals.
In 1980 the public has known the Public Board of Inquiry affirmed the
Searle studies showed cancer in animals and ruled that it should not
be used in the food supply. It is past time that the FDA invoked the
Delaney Clause and remove NutraSweet from the market. In July of 2005
further studies (Ramazzini) underscored the cancer causing capability
of NutraSweet/ aspartame in animals."

See Mr. Turner in Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World explain how
Rumsfeld's aspartame got approved after FDA said no.
www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

Ralph G. Walton, M.D., emphasizes:

"Dr. Soffritti's two outstanding studies on the multipotential
carcinogenic effects of aspartame add significantly to the ever-
growing body of evidence on the hazards of this artificial sweetener.
The FDA's stubborn adherence to their original, and controversial,
approval of aspartame is unconscionable.

The public must be informed that the approvals, both in this country
and Europe, are based on highly questionable industry-funded research,
or, in the case of recently issued statements on aspartame's supposed
safety, on a questionnaire which in no way represents legitimate
research.

Independent research, such as the recent Soffritti studies invariably
demonstrates the extremely hazardous nature of this product."

http://www.safeharborbh.org/pdfs/annualreport2005.pdf
Ralph G. Walton, M.D., Medical Director, Adult Services
Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, www.safeharborbh.org
1330 West 26th Street. Erie, PA 16508 814-459-9300



When the Ramazzini 2005 study was released the government and
aspartame manufacturers were responsible for a coverup. They found an
old AARP survey sent to a million American seniors: 16 pages with 56
questions.

It asked: How high did you go in school? Had a hysterectomy? Do you
eat brownies? Oatmeal? Margarine? Question #25 asked "Over the last 12
months when you drank coffee or tea, what kind of sweetener did you
regularly add?" There were 6 multi-choice selections, one of which
was: Equal or aspartame

The 10 year old 3-word item instantaneously converted the
questionnaire into the biggest aspartame study in history! It showed
no problems at all! (None were asked for!)

Through saturation news released this propaganda planetwide in major
magazines and other media.
www.wnho.net/halt_the_spin_on_bogus_studies.htm

Dr. Soffritti's work was presented to the European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA).
The EFSA risk assessment has been criticized from the beginning
because of conflicts of interest among the panel members, particularly
the chair Susan Barlow, who is an industry consultant.
They rejected Dr. Soffritti's study with the lame excuse that cancers
were caused by lung infections.
Eminent researchers and scientists know that respiratory infection is
a factor in the dying process and never took the EFSA excuse as
noteworthy.

Ramazzini study control rats had a much lower incidence of cancers
than the aspartame-fed rats.
Critics of EFSA's risk assessment said that if the cancers were caused
by inflammatory lung disease, then the control group would have had as
many cancers as the rats fed aspartame.

Dr. H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP, author of several texts on
aspartame disease commented:

"The elegant studies by Dr. Morando Soffritti and his colleagues,
coupled with other recent related publications, reinforce my
longstanding opinion that aspartame products represent carcinogens --
or co-carcinogens -- for several major tumors in humans, especially
involving the brain.

"The details appear in my text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic, and in my article, Does Aspartame Cause Human Brain Cancer?
The latter indicated that aspartame or its metabolites "might activate
one or more oncogenes that potentate or initiate cell mitosis, either
by direct or indirect effects.

"The failure of the FDA to acknowledge and act on the ongoing
revelations over the last two decades about the hazards of aspartame
products in a number of realms, especially when taken by children and
pregnant women, remains a source of professional embarrassment.

This chemical constitutes an imminent public health hazard.

I congratulate Dr. Soffritti for independently underscoring this
warning."

Dr. Betty Martini, [ Doctor Humanities, honorary ]
Founder, Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770-242-2599
www.wnho.net www.mpwhi.com/

Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2100
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame.../methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"
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second large Ramazzini study on low dose lifetime aspartame in rats
confirms carcinogenicity -- Morando Soffritti will give data and get
Selikoff award April 23 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC:
Murray 2007.04.19
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1415

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1250
aspartame causes cancer in rats at levels approved for humans,
Morando Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Foundation, Italy &
National Toxicology Program
of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2005.11.17 Env. Health Pers. 35 pages: Murray

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1226
USA National Institutes of Health National Toxicology
Program aids eminent Ramazzini Foundation, Bologna, Italy,
in more results on cancers in rats from lifetime low levels
of aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde), Felicity Lawrence,
www.guardian.co.uk: Murray 2005.09.30

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1186
aspartame induces lymphomas and leukaemias in rats, full plain text,
M Soffritti, F Belpoggi, DD Esposti, L Lambertini: Ramazzini
Foundation study 2005.07.14: main results agree with their previous
methanol and formaldehyde studies: Murray 2005.09.03

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1189
Michael F Jacobson of CSPI now and in 1985 re aspartame
toxicity, letter to FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford;
California OEHHA aspartame critique 2004.03.12; Center for
Consumer Freedom denounces CSPI: Murray 2005.07.27

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016
President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity:
Ramazzini Foundation carcinogenicity results Dec 2002:
Soffritti: Murray 2003.08.03 rmforall

p. 88 "The sweetening agent aspartame hydrolyzes in the
gastrointestinal tract to become free methyl alcohol,
which is metabolized in the liver
to formaldehyde, formic acid, and CO2. (11)"
Medinsky MA & Dorman DC. 1994; Assessing risks of low-level
methanol exposure. CIIT Act. 14: 1-7.

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Dec; 982: 87-105.
Results of long-term experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of
formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in rats.
Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Lambertin L,
Lauriola M, Padovani M, Maltoni C.
Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology
and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy.

Formaldehyde was administered for 104 weeks in drinking water
supplied ad libitum at concentrations of
1500, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, or 0 mg/L
to groups of 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at
seven weeks of age.
Control animals (100 males and 100 females) received tap water only.
Acetaldehyde was administered to 50 male and 50 female
Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at six weeks of age at concentrations of
2,500, 1,500, 500, 250, 50, or 0 mg/L.
Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death.
Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were found to produce an increase
in total malignant tumors in the treated groups
and showed specific carcinogenic effects on various organs and
tissues.
PMID: 12562630

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Dec; 982: 46-69.
Results of long-term experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of
methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol in rats.
Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Cevolani D,
Guarino M, Padovani M, Maltoni C.
Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology
and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy.

Methyl alcohol was administered in drinking water
supplied ad libitum at doses of
20,000, 5,000, 500, or 0 ppm to groups of male and female
Sprague-Dawley rats 8 weeks old at the start of the experiment.
Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death.
Ethyl alcohol was administered by ingestion in drinking water at a
concentration of 10% or 0% supplied ad libitum to groups of male and
female Sprague-Dawley rats; breeders and offspring were included in
the experiment.
Treatment started at 39 weeks of age (breeders), 7 days before mating,
or from embryo life (offspring)
and lasted until their spontaneous death.
Under tested experimental conditions, methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol
were demonstrated to be carcinogenic for various organs and tissues.
They must also be considered multipotential carcinogenic agents.
In addition to causing other tumors, ethyl alcohol induced malignant
tumors of the oral cavity, tongue, and lips.
These sites have been shown to be target organs in man by
epidemiologic studies.
Publication Types: Review Review, Tutorial PMID: 12562628


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1339
Obfuscation of the iatrogenic autism epidemic re mercury in kid
vaccines, Kenneth P. Stoller, Pediatrics 2006.05.06;
aspartame toxicity 2005.11.10: Comet assay can test genotoxicity,
EFSA admits ignorance re methanol residues, Murray 2006.05.10

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1335
Morando Soffritti of Ramazzini Foundation rebuts EFSA AFC critique,
www.laleva.org: Murray 2006.05.05

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1334
European Food Safety Authority discounts Ramazzini study re many
cancers in 1800 rats fed lifetime doses of aspartame:
Calorie Control Council press release: Murray 2006.05.05

http://www.efsa.eu.int/press_room/pr...e/1472_en.html

http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/afc/a...s/1471_en.html

http://www.efsa.eu.int/press_room/me...tindex_en.html

http://www.flyonthewall.com/FlyBroad...essConference/

http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/afc/a...rtame_en1.\pdf

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1338
Aspartame: The healthy option? Richard A. Lovett, The New Scientist
2006.05.04: Murray 2006.05.08

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1302
The Lowdown on Sweet? (Ramazzini Foundation, M Soffritti proof that
aspartame causes cancers), Melanie Warner, The New York Times:
sucralose: Prof. DL Katz: Murray 2006.02.12

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1303
David L. Katz MD comments briefly with Diane Sawyer on ABC
Good Morning America re Ramazzini aspartame cancer study:
excellent opus at Yale U: mainstream research on aspartame
(methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid) toxicity: Murray 2006.02.14
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1070
critique of aspartame review, French Food Safety Agency AFSSA
2002.05.07 aspartamgb.pdf (18 pages, in English), Martin Hirsch:
Murray 2004.04.13

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


A very detailed, highly credible account of the dubious approval
process
for aspartame in July, 1981 is part of the just released two-hour
documentary "Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World: An Industry Case
Study of a Food Supply In Crisis" by Cori Brackett:

http://www.soundandfuryproductions.com/ 520-624-9710
2301 East Broadway, Suite 111 Tucson, AZ 85719

Mary Nash Stoddard
Toxicology Sourcebook: "Deadly Deception Story of Aspartame"
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline [since 1987]
P.O. Box 2001 Frisco, Texas 75034 U.S. [ North of Dallas ]
Phone/FAX: 214.387.4001
http://www.aspartamesafety.com
http://www.aspartamesafety.com/en_espanol.htm

http://www.sweetpoison.com/ http://www.issplendasafe.com/
http://www.sweetpoison.com/food-additives-to-avoid.html
Dr. Janet Starr Hull, PhD, CN
Splenda®: Is It Safe Or Not?

http://www.truthinlabeling.org/ Truth in Labeling Campaign [MSG]
Adrienne Samuels, PhD The toxicity/safety of processed
free glutamic acid (MSG): a study in suppression of information.
Accountability in Research 1999; 6: 259-310. 52-page review
P.O. Box 2532 Darien, Illinois 60561
858-481-9333


http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review
Roberts HJ Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction.
Townsend Letter 2000 Jan;
http://www.sunsentpress.com/
Sunshine Sentinel Press P.O.Box 17799 West Palm Beach, FL 33416
800-814-9800 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/669
1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic"
published May 30 2001 $ 60.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases
available at http://www.amazon.com
over 600 references from standard medical research

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/790
Moseley: review Roberts "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic":
Murray 2002.02.07 rmforall

Roberts, Hyman J., 1924- ,
Useful insights for diagnosis, treatment and public heath: an updated
anthology of original research, 2002, 798 pages,
aspartame disease, pages 627-685, 778-780

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/859
Roberts: the life work of a brilliant clinician: aspartame toxicity:
Murray 2002.08.02 rmforall


Russell L. Blaylock, MD 601-982-1175 Madison, Mississippi
"Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills", 1977, 298 p., 493 references.
"Health and Nutrition Secrets that can save your life", 2002, 459 p.,
558 + 30 references, $ 30 http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1090
aspartame, MSG, excitotoxins, NMDA glutamate receptors,
multiple sclerosis: Blaylock: Murray 2004.06.09

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/97
Lancet website aspartame letter 1999.07.29:
Excitotoxins 1999 Part 1/3 Blaylock: Murray 2000.01.14
The Medical Sentinel Journal 1999 Fall; (95 references)
http://www.dorway.com/blayenn.html


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/857
www.dorway.com: original documents and long reviews of flaws in
aspartame toxicity research: Murray 2002.07.31

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/858
Samuels: Strong: Roberts: Gold: flaws in double-blind studies re
aspartame and MSG toxicity: Murray 2002.08.01

"Survey of aspartame studies: correlation of outcome and funding
sources," 1998, unpublished: http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html
Walton found 166 separate published studies in the peer reviewed
medical literature, which had relevance for questions of human safety.
The 74 studies funded by industry all (100 %) attested to aspartame's
safety, whereas of the 92 non-industry funded studies, 84 (91 %)
identified a problem. Six of the seven non-industry funded studies
that were favorable to aspartame safety were from the FDA, which
has a public record that shows a strong pro-industry bias.
Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio
Universities, College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown,
OH 44501, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine,
Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240
Youngstown, OH 44501 330-740-3621
http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/622
Gold: Koehler: Walton: Van Den Eeden: Leon:
aspartame toxicity: Murray 2001.06.04 four double-blind studies

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1077
eight depressed people react strongly to aspartame,
Prof. Ralph G. Walton, MD, 1993 double-blind study, full text:
Murray 2004.04.26

Walton, RG, "Adverse reactions to aspartame: double-blind challenge
in patients from a vulnerable population," 1993,
with Robert Hudak and Ruth J. Green-Waite,
Biological Psychiatry, 34 (1), 13-17.
Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychology,
Northeastern Ohio Universities, College of Medicine,
Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown, OH 44501,
Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine,
Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane,
P.O. Box 240 Youngstown, OH 44501 330-740-3621
http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm

Eight depressed patients, ages 24-60, and five non-depressed controls,
ages 24-56, employed at the hospital, were given for 7 days either
aspartame or a placebo, and then after a 3 day break, given the
opposite. Each got 2100 mg aspartame daily, 30 mg/kg bodyweight,
equal to 10-12 cans of diet soda daily, about a gallon. Despite the
very small number of subjects, the results were dramatic and
statistically significant. The eight depressed patients reported with
aspartame, compared to placebo, much higher levels of nervousness,
trouble remembering, nausea, depression, temper, and malaise.
(For each symptom, p0.01)
The five normals did not report strong enough differences
between aspartame and placebo to be significant.
Initially, the study was to be on a group of 40, but was halted by the
Institutional Review Board because of severe reactions
among 3 of the depressed patients.

Again, statistical significance with only 8 depressed patients:
"In this study, patients most often began to report significant
symptoms after day 2 or 3." The incidence rate is very high,
indeed, about 1/3. The most common symptoms are entirely typical
of thousands of case histories.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/927
Donald Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp.,
got aspartame FDA approval: Turner: Murray 2002.12.23

http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/262
aspartame expose 96K Oct 1987 Part 1/3: Gregory Gordon,
UPI reporter: Murray 2000.07.10

http://www.dorway.com/enclosur.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/53
aspartame history Part 1/4 1964-1976: Gold: Murray 1999.11.06

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/928
revolving door, Monsanto, FDA, EPA: NGIN: Murray 2002.12.23
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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 2007.06.04
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


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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
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