Showing posts with label Mary Nash Stoddard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Nash Stoddard. Show all posts
Monday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, November 7, 2010
ACSN Founder's Personal Story
AUTUMN, 2000 issue THE PATIENTS’ VOICE
PfAM RESEARCH LINKS ASPARTAME TO SUICIDAL DEPRESSION
by Mary Nash Stoddard
Fifteen (now 25) years ago, I was experiencing suicidal depression, extreme mood swings, memory loss and confusion, linked with other somewhat “bizarre” behavioral patterns . I saw a neurologist and five other “specialists” to no avail. The onset of my symptoms coincided with the start of a 1985 weight-loss program using lots of aspartame, and ceased after I stopped using anything with artificial sweeteners. I no longer suffer severe suicidal depressions.
In 1987, after many months of researching the medical literature, at the request of my friend, Washington Consumer Advocate, James Turner, Esq., I provided sworn, expert testimony at the Senate Hearings and founded an international grassroots organization, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline. In 1992, I qualified as an Expert Medical Witness in Judge Holiday’s courtroom in Lansing, Michigan and in 1997, I was a paid visiting professor at one of the top medical schools in the country - University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas. I have lectured at many science symposiums and university events, in several countries, since that time and am a member of the President's Select Council on Food Safety.
My purpose is this: to educate those users who may be suffering severe adverse reactions without knowing the cause and to create increasing awareness on the part of an unsuspecting public. My allegations are supported by literally dozens of studies and articles published in the peer-reviewed medical journals showing the risk factors associated with ingestion of aspartame. At the risk of hurtful personal ridicule and disbelief by some, if my words of caution help others to find relief from troubling symptoms, I have done my job.
For the record, we have received, through the Freedom of Information Act, as a Journalist, 92 cases of aspartame-related symptoms -- including 5 deaths which have been reported to the Food and Drug Administration. Because one aspartame component, phenylalanine [50%of the molecule] has been shown in the laboratory to block production of a necessary neurotransmitter, serotonin, which controls sleep patterns and moods, many daily users of products containing the sweetener such as diet drinks, gums, etc. report both manic and suicidal depressions among other symptoms. Aspartame also breaks down in heat and in the body to methanol [10% wood alcohol], formaldehyde, formic acid [venom in ant and spider bites] and diketopiperazine [a brain tumor agent.] In the lab, aspartame caused four kinds of tumors: brain, pancreatic, breast and uterine. [Also kidney cancers, leukemia and lymphoma in the more recent Ramizzini study in Italy.]
Even subtle alterations of brain patterns in aspartame users may be deemed significant, according to these prominent brain researchers:
Richard Wurtman, M.D., head of Brain Science at MIT says, “There is evidence that levels of serotonin or 5-HIAA are subnormal in CSF [cerebrospinal fluid] samples from violent psychiatric patients and in brains of people who died by suicide.”1
“In rats, the administration of glucose and aspartame by gavage increased brain levels of tyrosine and phenylalanine and decreased brain serotonin concentration. It has been argued that these changes in brain amino acid and biogenic amine levels in rats may have important behavioral implications for humans.”2
About the Author:
With a background in Broadcast Journalism and Law, Mary Nash Stoddard searched for the cause of her youngest child’s reaction and her own life threatening blood disorder (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome) as an investigative reporter might on the trail of a baffling story. With the help of a close friend -- a neuropharmacologist researcher at a foremost medical school -- and Shannon Roth, another friend in Ocala, Florida who provided moral support and substantial evidence that aspartame had caused Roth’s blindness and symptoms mimicking Multiple Sclerosis, Stoddard was well on her way to finding answers and reporting the story.
For the past fifteen [now 25] years - with virtually no outside funding and at great personal risk and sacrifice _ she has taken her fight around the world and was a member of the President’s Select Council on Food Safety. Last year [1999] she was a keynote speaker at the invitation of the Mexican Government,accompanied by her interpreter and friend, Ms.Connie Soto of Tampa, Florida. Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder and President Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline [1987-present] Mary Nash Stoddard, author of Deadly Deception Story of Aspartame, [Odenwald 1998], can be reached at: P.O. Box 2001, Frisco, TX 75034, phone: 214-387-4001, email: marystod@airmail.net, www.mary.blogspot.com; www.aspartamesafety.com/.
Endnotes
1 Wurtman, Richard J. ,M.D.; “Effects of Dietary Amino Acids, Carbohydrates, and Choline on Neurotransmitter
Synthesis; The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine; Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1988. From the Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and The Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.]
2 JAMA, July 19,1985-Vol 254, No.3, p.402
3 “Adverse Reactions to Aspartame: Double-Blind Challenge in Patients from a Vulnerable Population,” the Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 1993
4 Lane Lenard, Phd as reported in the January 1998 issue of Life Enhancement
5 Blaylock, Russel M.D., Excitotoxins-The Taste That Kills
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Permission granted to re-post/re-publish - giving full attribution to Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline Founder, Mary Nash Stoddard - and link to the following URL:
PfAM RESEARCH LINKS ASPARTAME TO SUICIDAL DEPRESSION
by Mary Nash Stoddard
Fifteen (now 25) years ago, I was experiencing suicidal depression, extreme mood swings, memory loss and confusion, linked with other somewhat “bizarre” behavioral patterns . I saw a neurologist and five other “specialists” to no avail. The onset of my symptoms coincided with the start of a 1985 weight-loss program using lots of aspartame, and ceased after I stopped using anything with artificial sweeteners. I no longer suffer severe suicidal depressions.
In 1987, after many months of researching the medical literature, at the request of my friend, Washington Consumer Advocate, James Turner, Esq., I provided sworn, expert testimony at the Senate Hearings and founded an international grassroots organization, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline. In 1992, I qualified as an Expert Medical Witness in Judge Holiday’s courtroom in Lansing, Michigan and in 1997, I was a paid visiting professor at one of the top medical schools in the country - University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas. I have lectured at many science symposiums and university events, in several countries, since that time and am a member of the President's Select Council on Food Safety.
My purpose is this: to educate those users who may be suffering severe adverse reactions without knowing the cause and to create increasing awareness on the part of an unsuspecting public. My allegations are supported by literally dozens of studies and articles published in the peer-reviewed medical journals showing the risk factors associated with ingestion of aspartame. At the risk of hurtful personal ridicule and disbelief by some, if my words of caution help others to find relief from troubling symptoms, I have done my job.
For the record, we have received, through the Freedom of Information Act, as a Journalist, 92 cases of aspartame-related symptoms -- including 5 deaths which have been reported to the Food and Drug Administration. Because one aspartame component, phenylalanine [50%of the molecule] has been shown in the laboratory to block production of a necessary neurotransmitter, serotonin, which controls sleep patterns and moods, many daily users of products containing the sweetener such as diet drinks, gums, etc. report both manic and suicidal depressions among other symptoms. Aspartame also breaks down in heat and in the body to methanol [10% wood alcohol], formaldehyde, formic acid [venom in ant and spider bites] and diketopiperazine [a brain tumor agent.] In the lab, aspartame caused four kinds of tumors: brain, pancreatic, breast and uterine. [Also kidney cancers, leukemia and lymphoma in the more recent Ramizzini study in Italy.]
Even subtle alterations of brain patterns in aspartame users may be deemed significant, according to these prominent brain researchers:
Richard Wurtman, M.D., head of Brain Science at MIT says, “There is evidence that levels of serotonin or 5-HIAA are subnormal in CSF [cerebrospinal fluid] samples from violent psychiatric patients and in brains of people who died by suicide.”1
“In rats, the administration of glucose and aspartame by gavage increased brain levels of tyrosine and phenylalanine and decreased brain serotonin concentration. It has been argued that these changes in brain amino acid and biogenic amine levels in rats may have important behavioral implications for humans.”2
About the Author:
With a background in Broadcast Journalism and Law, Mary Nash Stoddard searched for the cause of her youngest child’s reaction and her own life threatening blood disorder (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome) as an investigative reporter might on the trail of a baffling story. With the help of a close friend -- a neuropharmacologist researcher at a foremost medical school -- and Shannon Roth, another friend in Ocala, Florida who provided moral support and substantial evidence that aspartame had caused Roth’s blindness and symptoms mimicking Multiple Sclerosis, Stoddard was well on her way to finding answers and reporting the story.
For the past fifteen [now 25] years - with virtually no outside funding and at great personal risk and sacrifice _ she has taken her fight around the world and was a member of the President’s Select Council on Food Safety. Last year [1999] she was a keynote speaker at the invitation of the Mexican Government,accompanied by her interpreter and friend, Ms.Connie Soto of Tampa, Florida. Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder and President Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline [1987-present] Mary Nash Stoddard, author of Deadly Deception Story of Aspartame, [Odenwald 1998], can be reached at: P.O. Box 2001, Frisco, TX 75034, phone: 214-387-4001, email: marystod@airmail.net, www.mary.blogspot.com; www.aspartamesafety.com/.
Endnotes
1 Wurtman, Richard J. ,M.D.; “Effects of Dietary Amino Acids, Carbohydrates, and Choline on Neurotransmitter
Synthesis; The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine; Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1988. From the Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and The Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.]
2 JAMA, July 19,1985-Vol 254, No.3, p.402
3 “Adverse Reactions to Aspartame: Double-Blind Challenge in Patients from a Vulnerable Population,” the Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 1993
4 Lane Lenard, Phd as reported in the January 1998 issue of Life Enhancement
5 Blaylock, Russel M.D., Excitotoxins-The Taste That Kills
###
Permission granted to re-post/re-publish - giving full attribution to Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline Founder, Mary Nash Stoddard - and link to the following URL:
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
NEOTAME/SWEETOS DANGER SURFACES
RESPONSE from ASPARTAME CONSUMER SAFETY NETWORK
http://aspartamesafety.com/web/articles/the-threat-of-neotame/
Dockets Management Branch (HFA A-305)
Food an Drug Administration 12420 Parklawn Drive
Room 1-23
Rockville,Maryland 20857
Subject: Docket No. 98F-0052 (Food Additive Petition for Neotame)
OFFICIAL OPPOSITION STATEMENT TO FDA
RE: APPROVAL OF MONSANTO’S NEW SWEETENER, NEOTAME
FROM: ASPARTAME CONSUMER SAFETY NETWORK
DALLAS, March 10, 1998 – (Aspartame Consumer Safety Network) – In response to FDA and Monsanto’s announcement that FDA has been petitioned for approval of their new sweetener, Neotame as a food additive, our Dallas-based international anti-aspartame organization, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, issues the following statement:
Seventy eight percent of all FDA complaints are regarding aspartame adverse reactions. ACSN has thousands of serious reactions in our files, including incidents of grand mal seizures, brain tumors and other health-related problems too numerous to mention.
Monsanto’s Nick Rosa stated that Neotame is “based on the aspartame formula.” Since we believe this to be true, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network vigorously opposes its approval. The aspartame formula is comprised of Phenylalanine, which caused seizures in lab animals and Aspartic Acid, which caused “holes in the brains” of lab animals – bonded by Methyl Alcohol, or Methanol which is capable of causing blindness, liver damage and death. Methanol, or wood alcohol in aspartame breaks down further in heat and in the body, into Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), Formic Acid (venom in ant stings) and the most deadly of all – Diketopiperazine (DKP), a brain tumor agent. Our files contain close to 10,000 responses from the public, including thousands of serious adverse reactions to Monsanto’s aspartame.
As a founder of the world’s burgeoning anti-aspartame movement, I was the first non-M.D. invited to lecture at a major Medical School on the topic of Aspartame (Jan. 1997). I recently concluded a multi-city lecture tour and find interest in this topic to be extremely high – here and all over the world. Recently, a story appeared in London’s Sunday Mirror, featuring an adverse reaction of a child whose parents are members of A.C.S.N. (Aspartame Consumer Safety Network). Aspartame has been identified and denounced as a major risk factor by consumers in over a dozen countries.
According to FDA Toxicologists who gave testimony with me in 1987 at a Senate Hearing on the subject – the tests to get aspartame approved were falsified. Deaths of lab animals were covered up and went unreported.
Based on over a decade of epidemiological research and work with consumers and health care professionals, we urgently implore the FDA to unequivocally deny any form of approval of Neotame.
Signed:
Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network
and Worldwide Pilots Hotline (Division of ACSN)
enclosure: ACSN Newsletter
cc: Blondell Anderson
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206)
FDA, 200 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20204
U.S. Congressman, Dick Armey
Attention: Bryndan Wright
301 Cannon Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Ms. Laura M. Tavantino
Office of Premarket Approval
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206)
FDA, 200 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20204
Representative Newt Gingrich, M.C.
Attn: Patrick Burns
3823 Roswell Road, Suite 206
Marietta, Georgia 30062
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. 98F-0052]
Monsanto Co.; Filing a Food Additive Petition
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Monsanto Co. has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of L- Phenylanlanine,N-[N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L--aspartyl]-,1-methyl ester for use as a tabletop sweetener. Monsanto Co. also proposes that this additive be identified as neotame.
DATES: Written comments on the petitioner’s environmental assessment by March 12, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 12420 Parklawn Dr., rm. 1-23, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blondell Anderson, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3106.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (sec. 409(b)(5) (21 U.S.C. 348(b)(5))), notice is given that a food additive petition (FAP 8A4580) has been filed by Monsanto Co., 5200 Old Orchard Rd., Skokie, IL 60077. The petition proposes to amend the food additive regulations in 21 CFR part 172 to provide for the safe use of L-Phenylanlanine,N-[N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L- -aspartyl]-,1- methyl ester as a tabletop sweetener and for the additive to be identified as neotame.The potential environmental impact of this action is being reviewed. To encourage public participation consistent with regulations promulgated under the National Environmental Policy Act (40 CFR 1501.4(b)), the agency is placing the environmental assessment submitted with the petition that is the subject of this notice on display at the Dockets Management Branch (address above) for public review and comment. Interested persons may, on or before March 12, 1998, submit to the Dockets Management Branch (address above) written comments. Two copies of any comments are to be submitted, except that individuals may submit one copy. Comments are to be identified with the docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. Received comments may be seen in the office above between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. FDA will also place on public display any amendments to, or comments on, the petitioner’s environmental assessment without further announcement in the Federal Register. If, based on its review, the agency finds that an environmental impact statement is not required and this petition results in a regulation, the notice of availability of the agency’s finding of no significant impact and the evidence supporting that finding will be published with the regulation in the Federal Register in accordance with 21 CFR 25.40(c).
Dated: January 23, 1998.
Laura M. Tarantino,
Acting Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 98-3296 Filed 2-9-98; 8:45 am
] BILLING CODE 4160-01-F
Word Matches: NEOTAME
Archive-Name: gov/us/fed/nara/fed-register/1998/feb/10/63FR6762
Posting-number: Volume 63, Issue 27, Page 6762
[Federal Register: February 10, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 27)]
[Notices]
[Page 6762]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr10fe98-107]
___________________________________________________________
What is it used in?
Beverages, tabletop sweeteners, frozen desserts, ice cream, yogurt, chewing gum, candy, bakery products, toppings, fillings, fruit spreads, cereal
http://www.sugarfreezone.com.au/faq.html#NEOTAME
New products that have recently come to the market that contain neotame include,Kroger's fruit juice and certain powdered ice-teas. Neotame is also now used in some Detour energy bars and certain confectionary products, such as Wrigley Chewing Gum in Australia, Roman Meal Bread line and Herr's pretzels in the US.
____________________________________________________________
Many food products bound for the US are Made in China. What are the permitted sweeteners in Hong Kong?
According to the Schedule to the Sweeteners in Food Regulations (Cap. 132U), permitted sweeteners include the followings:
(1) Acesulfame Potassium
(2) Alitame
(3) Aspartame (aka Equal/AminoSweet/Canderel, etc.)
(4) Aspartame - acesulfame Salt
(5) Cyclamic Acid (and Sodium, Potassium, Calcium salts)
(6) Saccharin (and Sodium, Potassium, Calcium Salts)
(7) Sucralose
(8) Thaumatin.
(9) Neotame (aka Sweetos)
(10) Steviol Glycosides
8. What are the maximum permissible levels for the permitted sweeteners in foods?
There are no maximum permissible levels set for those permitted sweeteners as prescribed in the Schedule to the Sweeteners in Food Regulation (Cap. 132U). The quantity of the permitted sweeteners to be used in foods shall be in accordance with the good manufacturing practice.(?????)
http://aspartamesafety.com/web/articles/the-threat-of-neotame/
Dockets Management Branch (HFA A-305)
Food an Drug Administration 12420 Parklawn Drive
Room 1-23
Rockville,Maryland 20857
Subject: Docket No. 98F-0052 (Food Additive Petition for Neotame)
OFFICIAL OPPOSITION STATEMENT TO FDA
RE: APPROVAL OF MONSANTO’S NEW SWEETENER, NEOTAME
FROM: ASPARTAME CONSUMER SAFETY NETWORK
DALLAS, March 10, 1998 – (Aspartame Consumer Safety Network) – In response to FDA and Monsanto’s announcement that FDA has been petitioned for approval of their new sweetener, Neotame as a food additive, our Dallas-based international anti-aspartame organization, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, issues the following statement:
Seventy eight percent of all FDA complaints are regarding aspartame adverse reactions. ACSN has thousands of serious reactions in our files, including incidents of grand mal seizures, brain tumors and other health-related problems too numerous to mention.
Monsanto’s Nick Rosa stated that Neotame is “based on the aspartame formula.” Since we believe this to be true, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network vigorously opposes its approval. The aspartame formula is comprised of Phenylalanine, which caused seizures in lab animals and Aspartic Acid, which caused “holes in the brains” of lab animals – bonded by Methyl Alcohol, or Methanol which is capable of causing blindness, liver damage and death. Methanol, or wood alcohol in aspartame breaks down further in heat and in the body, into Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), Formic Acid (venom in ant stings) and the most deadly of all – Diketopiperazine (DKP), a brain tumor agent. Our files contain close to 10,000 responses from the public, including thousands of serious adverse reactions to Monsanto’s aspartame.
As a founder of the world’s burgeoning anti-aspartame movement, I was the first non-M.D. invited to lecture at a major Medical School on the topic of Aspartame (Jan. 1997). I recently concluded a multi-city lecture tour and find interest in this topic to be extremely high – here and all over the world. Recently, a story appeared in London’s Sunday Mirror, featuring an adverse reaction of a child whose parents are members of A.C.S.N. (Aspartame Consumer Safety Network). Aspartame has been identified and denounced as a major risk factor by consumers in over a dozen countries.
According to FDA Toxicologists who gave testimony with me in 1987 at a Senate Hearing on the subject – the tests to get aspartame approved were falsified. Deaths of lab animals were covered up and went unreported.
Based on over a decade of epidemiological research and work with consumers and health care professionals, we urgently implore the FDA to unequivocally deny any form of approval of Neotame.
Signed:
Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network
and Worldwide Pilots Hotline (Division of ACSN)
enclosure: ACSN Newsletter
cc: Blondell Anderson
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206)
FDA, 200 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20204
U.S. Congressman, Dick Armey
Attention: Bryndan Wright
301 Cannon Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Ms. Laura M. Tavantino
Office of Premarket Approval
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206)
FDA, 200 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20204
Representative Newt Gingrich, M.C.
Attn: Patrick Burns
3823 Roswell Road, Suite 206
Marietta, Georgia 30062
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. 98F-0052]
Monsanto Co.; Filing a Food Additive Petition
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that Monsanto Co. has filed a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of L- Phenylanlanine,N-[N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L--aspartyl]-,1-methyl ester for use as a tabletop sweetener. Monsanto Co. also proposes that this additive be identified as neotame.
DATES: Written comments on the petitioner’s environmental assessment by March 12, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 12420 Parklawn Dr., rm. 1-23, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blondell Anderson, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3106.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (sec. 409(b)(5) (21 U.S.C. 348(b)(5))), notice is given that a food additive petition (FAP 8A4580) has been filed by Monsanto Co., 5200 Old Orchard Rd., Skokie, IL 60077. The petition proposes to amend the food additive regulations in 21 CFR part 172 to provide for the safe use of L-Phenylanlanine,N-[N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L- -aspartyl]-,1- methyl ester as a tabletop sweetener and for the additive to be identified as neotame.The potential environmental impact of this action is being reviewed. To encourage public participation consistent with regulations promulgated under the National Environmental Policy Act (40 CFR 1501.4(b)), the agency is placing the environmental assessment submitted with the petition that is the subject of this notice on display at the Dockets Management Branch (address above) for public review and comment. Interested persons may, on or before March 12, 1998, submit to the Dockets Management Branch (address above) written comments. Two copies of any comments are to be submitted, except that individuals may submit one copy. Comments are to be identified with the docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. Received comments may be seen in the office above between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. FDA will also place on public display any amendments to, or comments on, the petitioner’s environmental assessment without further announcement in the Federal Register. If, based on its review, the agency finds that an environmental impact statement is not required and this petition results in a regulation, the notice of availability of the agency’s finding of no significant impact and the evidence supporting that finding will be published with the regulation in the Federal Register in accordance with 21 CFR 25.40(c).
Dated: January 23, 1998.
Laura M. Tarantino,
Acting Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 98-3296 Filed 2-9-98; 8:45 am
] BILLING CODE 4160-01-F
Word Matches: NEOTAME
Archive-Name: gov/us/fed/nara/fed-register/1998/feb/10/63FR6762
Posting-number: Volume 63, Issue 27, Page 6762
[Federal Register: February 10, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 27)]
[Notices]
[Page 6762]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr10fe98-107]
___________________________________________________________
What is it used in?
Beverages, tabletop sweeteners, frozen desserts, ice cream, yogurt, chewing gum, candy, bakery products, toppings, fillings, fruit spreads, cereal
http://www.sugarfreezone.com.au/faq.html#NEOTAME
New products that have recently come to the market that contain neotame include,Kroger's fruit juice and certain powdered ice-teas. Neotame is also now used in some Detour energy bars and certain confectionary products, such as Wrigley Chewing Gum in Australia, Roman Meal Bread line and Herr's pretzels in the US.
____________________________________________________________
Many food products bound for the US are Made in China. What are the permitted sweeteners in Hong Kong?
According to the Schedule to the Sweeteners in Food Regulations (Cap. 132U), permitted sweeteners include the followings:
(1) Acesulfame Potassium
(2) Alitame
(3) Aspartame (aka Equal/AminoSweet/Canderel, etc.)
(4) Aspartame - acesulfame Salt
(5) Cyclamic Acid (and Sodium, Potassium, Calcium salts)
(6) Saccharin (and Sodium, Potassium, Calcium Salts)
(7) Sucralose
(8) Thaumatin.
(9) Neotame (aka Sweetos)
(10) Steviol Glycosides
8. What are the maximum permissible levels for the permitted sweeteners in foods?
There are no maximum permissible levels set for those permitted sweeteners as prescribed in the Schedule to the Sweeteners in Food Regulation (Cap. 132U). The quantity of the permitted sweeteners to be used in foods shall be in accordance with the good manufacturing practice.(?????)
Friday, October 29, 2010
Aspartame Video Featuring Founder of Aspartame Awareness Movement
The Eclectic Viewpoint
presents
Big Business
Government Coverup Exposed!
Is Your Life In Jeopardy?
Mary Nash Stoddard, March 21, 1992
This is lecture event #3 in Dallas
Grand Mal Seizures Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cancer and Brain Tumors Depression and Suicide Infertility Alzheimer's Disease All of the above health conditions have increased in alarming numbers and can be caused, in many cases, by food additives or chemicals in our environment, according to this Dallasite who is internationally famous for her individual campaign to educate the public of these dangers.  Mary Nash Stoddard, head of the Dallas based Aspartame Consumer Safety Network (ASCN), was part of a 1987 Senate hearing regarding the safety of aspartame (NutraSweet). Having suffered a near fatal condition (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome) that was later linked, by her doctor, to aspartame, Mary was called to give testimony.One of the other individuals testifying at the Senate hearing was Air Force Major Michael Collins, an ace F-16 pilot who had felt obligated to reject offers to fly with the famous Thunderbirds because he was having bizarre symptoms of dizziness and tremors — symptoms he was afraid to disclose to anyone for fear of losing his flying credentials. Then in 1985 he had a grand mal seizure and his career as a pilot was over. By chance, his father saw an article linking NutraSweet with seizures and Major Collins was able to identify the source of his problem, but not in time to save his medical certification to fly. According to General Aviation News, "pilot George E. Leighton experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable to read instruments on his panels and narrowly avoided a tragic landing after consuming two cups of NutraSweetened hot chocolate prior to his flight." Another pilot writes "I used NutraSweet regularly until I read your story. I was a 48 year old pilot for a local airline until August 1987, when I had a seizure while in flight at the controls of a Piper T 1040 on a charter flight with only one pilot and two non-pilot passengers." These are just a few of the cases that Mary Stoddard hears daily on the International Pilots Hotline (214-387-4001) in her Dallas office. She says, "We have discussed this issue with the Chief of Aviation Medicine and FAA has no position, officially, since the product is FDA approved. Unofficially, however, he acknowledged increasing reports of various reactions and will not use it himself." Eighty-five percent of all complaints to the FDA are about aspartame and they fail to act! Part of the problem is that aspartame is classified as a food and not a drug. Two former FDA scientists involved in the original investigations of Searle Pharmaceutical's aspartame say there has been "a giant cover-up and falsification of data." Quoting General Aviation News:"Animals being tested developed brain tumors ... or died. In 1971, an independent researcher found that aspartic acid caused holes in the brains of mice he was testing; more tests by a Searle scientist confirmed the results. Similarly, of seven rhesus monkeys that were fed aspartame, five were afflicted with grand mal seizures. A sixth one died." In addition to containing aspartic acid, NutraSweet is 50 percent phenylalinine (which can be neurotoxic) and 10 percent methanol (wood alcohol — of which two teaspoons is considered a lethal dose for adult humans). Methanol further breaks down into formaldehyde (embalming fluid), especially if heated in hot beverages. Mary Nash Stoddard is one of two people in the world recognized as an expert witness to testify in a court of law on the subject of aspartame and has just completed work on a bookThe Deadly Deception. As a dynamic talk show guest, she appeared on London's Thames TV as well as network newscasts and top rated talk shows across America. Her message linking aspartame as the unidentified environmental trigger in many cases of Grand Mal Seizure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Lyme Disease, Post Polio Syndrome, Alzheimer's, Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis and many other mysterious illnesses is one you can't afford to miss! Your life may depend on it! |
Friday, October 22, 2010
DEADLY DECEPTION STORY OF ASPARTAME
DEADLY DECEPTION STORY OF ASPARTAME by Mary Nash Stoddard
* Data doesn't lie, except when it might be profitable
* Scientific safeguards insufficient to detect fakes
* Medical research scrutinized
* Have You Had Any of these NutraSweet/Equal symptoms?
* Step by Step History of Aspartame
* Diagram of Aspartame molecule
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network Section:
* ACSN Founder's Bio
* New Dallas Group Urges Warning on NutraSweet
* Aspartame Activists Make A Stand
* Letter to Editor - Another danger ... MSG
* Woman wages aspartame fight on cooking class
* Product safety questions lead to class cancellation
* Aspartame Experts at a Glance - The Expert Witness Journal
* There's a Moral in the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy (fiction)
* Patricia Crain's tragic death
* Christina Onassis addicted to Diet Coke
* Aspartame support group formed in Minnesota
* NutraSweet Battle Heats Up
* Spring Hill FL Women Fight Diet Product (Methanol poisoning case)
* Europe, Canada, Mideast Report Blood Disorder Cases (EMS)
* ACSN Position Paper on L-Tryptophan Deception
Research Section:
* NutraSweet Investigator Reports Increase in Brain Tumors Since 1984 (advent of NutraSweet in Diet Drinks)
* New Perspectives Concerning Alzheimer's Disease - On Call Palm Beach Co. Med. Soc.
* Does Aspartame Cause Human Brain Cancer? Journal of Adv. in Medicine
* Aspartame & Headache (New England Journal of Medicine)
* The Doctor's Corner - Aspartame, Trick or Treat?
* Environmental Hypothesis for Brain Diseases Strengthened by New Data (Aspartic Acid connection)
* Excitatory amino acid receptors, excitotoxicity, and the human nervous system
* Association of Birth Defect Children - The Aspartame Controversy
* Dermatology Rounds - Skin & Allergy News. Aspartame Associated With Case of Lobular Panniculitis
* Aspartame exacerbates EEG spike-wave discharge in children--Birth Defect Study - Neurotoxicology and Teratology
* Aspartame in Children's Medications (partial list)
* Adverse Reactions to Aspartame: Double-Blind Challenge in Patients from a Vulnerable Population - Dr. R. Walton Biological Psychiatry
* Aspartame, Methanol & the Public Health - Dr. W. Monte
* Use of Aspartame by persons with diabetes - Dr. H.J. Roberts
Letters from Senate Hearing Records:
* Louis J. Elsas, M.D., Dir., Div. of Med. Genetics, Prof. of Pediatrics -Emory Univ.
* William Pardridge, M.D., Prof. of Medicine - U.C.L.A.
* Morgan B. Raiford, M.D. Opthalmologist
* Orion T. Ayer, M.D., The Retina Institute
* Ralph Dawson, M.D. - University of Florida
* Gerald A. Schroeter, M.D., Neurologist
* Statement of James B. Turner, Attorney (co-founder A.C.S.N.)
* H.J. Roberts, M.D. - Palm Beach Inst. for Medical Research, Inc.
* New Artificial Sweeteners Rekindle Debate Over Health Risks
Flying & Aspartame:
* Aspartame and Flying - Extraordinary Science, March, 1995
* U.S. Air Force Flying Safety - Aspartame Alert
* National Business AircraftAssn. Digest - Bitter Aftertaste
* FAA Medical Examiner's Case Histories (James B. Hays, M.D.)
* Report links aspartame to pilot and driver error
* Aviation Medical Bulletin - Pilots & Aspartame
* Can Aspartame Cause Hypoxia at Altitudes? (G. Leighton)
* Safeguard - The Aviation Consumer
* Fit to Fly - Aspartame and Diet Drinks (CGAN art.)
* Pacific Flyer - This Could Save Your Life
* Letters to Editors (Flying Magazines)
* Gen. Aviation News - NutraSweet ... too good to be true?
* Australia's Aviation Safety Digest - Not for the Dieting Pilot
* Plane & Pilot - High on High (Getting High on Aspartame)
* London's The Food mag. - Aspartame safety review - Pilot safety fears over Aspartame
* Some Still Bitter Over NutraSweet
* "NutraSweet Tests Faked" - London's The Guardian newspaper
* International Council of Air Shows '95
Miscellaneous:* Science Fair Contestant - Aspartame Project Results
* Diet Soft Drink May Wash Away Pearly White Shine (Dental)
* NutraSweet Tries Being More of a Sweetie (Business Week)
* Artificial Sweetener News - Center for Science in the Public Interest
* Nutrition Week - A.C.S.N. On Top of Things
* Anecdote by Anecdote - Aspartame Not So Sweet
* Artificial Sweetener linked to Health Problems by Some
* FDA Director Kessler starts every day with a diet drink (Time)
* Vegetarian Times - Aspartame Still Bittersweet
* Diet Sodas - Do You Know What You're Drinking? (IDEA Today)
* U.N.T. Student Assembly Votes to Educate on Aspartame
* Aspartame Symposium at Univ. of North Texas
* NutraSweet Controversy Gains National Recognition
* Dr. Lendon Smith's The Facts - Greed vs Health, Which Will Win?
* American Dietetic Association receives $75,000 from NutraSweet
* Epilepsy Foundation Honors Samuel Skinner
* Dangers of Aspartame Ingestion Coming Through Loud & Clear
* How Aspartame Can Harm You - Dr. Julian Whitaker's Health & Healing, December 1994
* Sweet Poison - Hustler, December 1994
* Nutrition Week - May 26, 1995
* Nutrition & Healing - November 1995 - Dr. Jonathan Wright
* Advance (Journal for Nurse Practitioners) - June, 1996
Table of Contents
Foreward* Data doesn't lie, except when it might be profitable
* Scientific safeguards insufficient to detect fakes
* Medical research scrutinized
* Have You Had Any of these NutraSweet/Equal symptoms?
* Step by Step History of Aspartame
* Diagram of Aspartame molecule
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network Section:
* ACSN Founder's Bio
* New Dallas Group Urges Warning on NutraSweet
* Aspartame Activists Make A Stand
* Letter to Editor - Another danger ... MSG
* Woman wages aspartame fight on cooking class
* Product safety questions lead to class cancellation
* Aspartame Experts at a Glance - The Expert Witness Journal
* There's a Moral in the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy (fiction)
* Patricia Crain's tragic death
* Christina Onassis addicted to Diet Coke
* Aspartame support group formed in Minnesota
* NutraSweet Battle Heats Up
* Spring Hill FL Women Fight Diet Product (Methanol poisoning case)
* Europe, Canada, Mideast Report Blood Disorder Cases (EMS)
* ACSN Position Paper on L-Tryptophan Deception
Research Section:
* NutraSweet Investigator Reports Increase in Brain Tumors Since 1984 (advent of NutraSweet in Diet Drinks)
* New Perspectives Concerning Alzheimer's Disease - On Call Palm Beach Co. Med. Soc.
* Does Aspartame Cause Human Brain Cancer? Journal of Adv. in Medicine
* Aspartame & Headache (New England Journal of Medicine)
* The Doctor's Corner - Aspartame, Trick or Treat?
* Environmental Hypothesis for Brain Diseases Strengthened by New Data (Aspartic Acid connection)
* Excitatory amino acid receptors, excitotoxicity, and the human nervous system
* Association of Birth Defect Children - The Aspartame Controversy
* Dermatology Rounds - Skin & Allergy News. Aspartame Associated With Case of Lobular Panniculitis
* Aspartame exacerbates EEG spike-wave discharge in children--Birth Defect Study - Neurotoxicology and Teratology
* Aspartame in Children's Medications (partial list)
* Adverse Reactions to Aspartame: Double-Blind Challenge in Patients from a Vulnerable Population - Dr. R. Walton Biological Psychiatry
* Aspartame, Methanol & the Public Health - Dr. W. Monte
* Use of Aspartame by persons with diabetes - Dr. H.J. Roberts
Letters from Senate Hearing Records:
* Louis J. Elsas, M.D., Dir., Div. of Med. Genetics, Prof. of Pediatrics -Emory Univ.
* William Pardridge, M.D., Prof. of Medicine - U.C.L.A.
* Morgan B. Raiford, M.D. Opthalmologist
* Orion T. Ayer, M.D., The Retina Institute
* Ralph Dawson, M.D. - University of Florida
* Gerald A. Schroeter, M.D., Neurologist
* Statement of James B. Turner, Attorney (co-founder A.C.S.N.)
* H.J. Roberts, M.D. - Palm Beach Inst. for Medical Research, Inc.
* New Artificial Sweeteners Rekindle Debate Over Health Risks
Flying & Aspartame:
* Aspartame and Flying - Extraordinary Science, March, 1995
* U.S. Air Force Flying Safety - Aspartame Alert
* National Business AircraftAssn. Digest - Bitter Aftertaste
* FAA Medical Examiner's Case Histories (James B. Hays, M.D.)
* Report links aspartame to pilot and driver error
* Aviation Medical Bulletin - Pilots & Aspartame
* Can Aspartame Cause Hypoxia at Altitudes? (G. Leighton)
* Safeguard - The Aviation Consumer
* Fit to Fly - Aspartame and Diet Drinks (CGAN art.)
* Pacific Flyer - This Could Save Your Life
* Letters to Editors (Flying Magazines)
* Gen. Aviation News - NutraSweet ... too good to be true?
* Australia's Aviation Safety Digest - Not for the Dieting Pilot
* Plane & Pilot - High on High (Getting High on Aspartame)
* London's The Food mag. - Aspartame safety review - Pilot safety fears over Aspartame
* Some Still Bitter Over NutraSweet
* "NutraSweet Tests Faked" - London's The Guardian newspaper
* International Council of Air Shows '95
Miscellaneous:* Science Fair Contestant - Aspartame Project Results
* Diet Soft Drink May Wash Away Pearly White Shine (Dental)
* NutraSweet Tries Being More of a Sweetie (Business Week)
* Artificial Sweetener News - Center for Science in the Public Interest
* Nutrition Week - A.C.S.N. On Top of Things
* Anecdote by Anecdote - Aspartame Not So Sweet
* Artificial Sweetener linked to Health Problems by Some
* FDA Director Kessler starts every day with a diet drink (Time)
* Vegetarian Times - Aspartame Still Bittersweet
* Diet Sodas - Do You Know What You're Drinking? (IDEA Today)
* U.N.T. Student Assembly Votes to Educate on Aspartame
* Aspartame Symposium at Univ. of North Texas
* NutraSweet Controversy Gains National Recognition
* Dr. Lendon Smith's The Facts - Greed vs Health, Which Will Win?
* American Dietetic Association receives $75,000 from NutraSweet
* Epilepsy Foundation Honors Samuel Skinner
* Dangers of Aspartame Ingestion Coming Through Loud & Clear
* How Aspartame Can Harm You - Dr. Julian Whitaker's Health & Healing, December 1994
* Sweet Poison - Hustler, December 1994
* Nutrition Week - May 26, 1995
* Nutrition & Healing - November 1995 - Dr. Jonathan Wright
* Advance (Journal for Nurse Practitioners) - June, 1996
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Aspartame Lecture - Mary Nash Stoddard
Mary Nash Stoddard, March 21, 1992
This is lecture event #3 in Dallas
Grand Mal Seizures
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Cancer and Brain Tumors
Depression and Suicide
Infertility
Alzheimer's Disease
All of the above health conditions have increased in alarming numbers and can be caused, in many cases, by food additives or chemicals in our environment, according to a Dallasite who is internationally famous for her campaign to educate the public of these dangers.
Mary Nash Stoddard, head of the Dallas based Aspartame Consumer Safety Network (ASCN), was part of a 1987 Senate hearing regarding the safety of aspartame (NutraSweet). Having suffered a near fatal condition (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome) that was later linked to aspartame, Mary was called to give testimony.
One of the other individuals testifying at the Senate hearing was Air Force Major Michael Collins, an ace F-16 pilot who had felt obligated to reject offers to fly with the famous Thunderbirds because he was having bizarre symptoms of dizziness and tremors — symptoms he was afraid to disclose to anyone for fear of losing his flying credentials. Then in 1985 he had a grand mal seizure and his career as a pilot was over. By chance, his father saw an article linking NutraSweet with seizures and Major Collins was able to identify the source of his problem, but not in time to save his medical certification to fly.
According to General Aviation News, "pilot George E. Leighton experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable to read instruments on his panels and narrowly avoided a tragic landing after consuming two cups of NutraSweetened hot chocolate prior to his flight."
Another pilot writes "I used NutraSweet regularly until I read your story. I was a 48 year old pilot for a local airline until August 1987, when I had a seizure while in flight at the controls of a Piper T 1040 on a charter flight with only one pilot and two non-pilot passengers."
These are just a few of the cases that Mary Stoddard hears daily on the International Pilots Hotline (214-352-4268) in her Dallas office. She says, "We have discussed this issue with the Chief of Aviation Medicine and FAA has no position, officially, since the product is FDA approved. Unofficially, however, he acknowledged increasing reports of various reactions and will not use it himself."
Eighty-five percent of all complaints to the FDA are about aspartame and they fail to act! Part of the problem is that aspartame is classified as a food and not a drug. Two former FDA scientists involved in the original investigations of Searle Pharmaceutical's aspartame say there has been "a giant cover-up and falsification of data." Quoting General Aviation News: "Animals being tested developed brain tumors ... or died. In 1971, an independent researcher found that aspartic acid caused holes in the brains of mice he was testing; more tests by a Searle scientist confirmed the results. Similarly, of seven rhesus monkeys that were fed aspartame, five were afflicted with grand mal seizures. A sixth one died."
In addition to containing aspartic acid, NutraSweet is 50 percent phenylalinine (which can be neurotoxic) and 10 percent methanol (wood alcohol — of which two teaspoons is considered a lethal dose for adult humans). Methanol further breaks down into formaldehyde (embalming fluid), especially if heated in hot beverages.
Mary Nash Stoddard is one of two people in the world recognized as an expert witness to testify in a court of law on the subject of aspartame and has just completed work on a book The Deadly Deception. As a dynamic talk show guest, she appeared on London's Thames TV as well as network newscasts and top rated talk shows across America. Her message linking aspartame as the unidentified environmental trigger in many cases of Grand Mal Seizure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Lyme Disease, Post Polio Syndrome, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and many other mysterious illnesses is one you can't afford to miss! Your life may depend on it!
This is lecture event #3 in Dallas
Grand Mal Seizures
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Cancer and Brain Tumors
Depression and Suicide
Infertility
Alzheimer's Disease
All of the above health conditions have increased in alarming numbers and can be caused, in many cases, by food additives or chemicals in our environment, according to a Dallasite who is internationally famous for her campaign to educate the public of these dangers.
Mary Nash Stoddard, head of the Dallas based Aspartame Consumer Safety Network (ASCN), was part of a 1987 Senate hearing regarding the safety of aspartame (NutraSweet). Having suffered a near fatal condition (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome) that was later linked to aspartame, Mary was called to give testimony.
One of the other individuals testifying at the Senate hearing was Air Force Major Michael Collins, an ace F-16 pilot who had felt obligated to reject offers to fly with the famous Thunderbirds because he was having bizarre symptoms of dizziness and tremors — symptoms he was afraid to disclose to anyone for fear of losing his flying credentials. Then in 1985 he had a grand mal seizure and his career as a pilot was over. By chance, his father saw an article linking NutraSweet with seizures and Major Collins was able to identify the source of his problem, but not in time to save his medical certification to fly.
According to General Aviation News, "pilot George E. Leighton experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable to read instruments on his panels and narrowly avoided a tragic landing after consuming two cups of NutraSweetened hot chocolate prior to his flight."
Another pilot writes "I used NutraSweet regularly until I read your story. I was a 48 year old pilot for a local airline until August 1987, when I had a seizure while in flight at the controls of a Piper T 1040 on a charter flight with only one pilot and two non-pilot passengers."
These are just a few of the cases that Mary Stoddard hears daily on the International Pilots Hotline (214-352-4268) in her Dallas office. She says, "We have discussed this issue with the Chief of Aviation Medicine and FAA has no position, officially, since the product is FDA approved. Unofficially, however, he acknowledged increasing reports of various reactions and will not use it himself."
Eighty-five percent of all complaints to the FDA are about aspartame and they fail to act! Part of the problem is that aspartame is classified as a food and not a drug. Two former FDA scientists involved in the original investigations of Searle Pharmaceutical's aspartame say there has been "a giant cover-up and falsification of data." Quoting General Aviation News: "Animals being tested developed brain tumors ... or died. In 1971, an independent researcher found that aspartic acid caused holes in the brains of mice he was testing; more tests by a Searle scientist confirmed the results. Similarly, of seven rhesus monkeys that were fed aspartame, five were afflicted with grand mal seizures. A sixth one died."
In addition to containing aspartic acid, NutraSweet is 50 percent phenylalinine (which can be neurotoxic) and 10 percent methanol (wood alcohol — of which two teaspoons is considered a lethal dose for adult humans). Methanol further breaks down into formaldehyde (embalming fluid), especially if heated in hot beverages.
Mary Nash Stoddard is one of two people in the world recognized as an expert witness to testify in a court of law on the subject of aspartame and has just completed work on a book The Deadly Deception. As a dynamic talk show guest, she appeared on London's Thames TV as well as network newscasts and top rated talk shows across America. Her message linking aspartame as the unidentified environmental trigger in many cases of Grand Mal Seizure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Lyme Disease, Post Polio Syndrome, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and many other mysterious illnesses is one you can't afford to miss! Your life may depend on it!
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