FDA Studies Show Aspartame Link to Brain Tumors
Mission Possible is seeking New York and New Jersey plaintiffs for litigation on aspartame.
ATLANTA (PRWEB via PR Web Direct)
April 12, 2005 -- Consumer rights advocacy group Mission Possible is leading a
campaign to fill a product liability lawsuit with New York and New Jersey
residents whose brain tumors may be linked to the consumption of the artificial
sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, etc.).
"Neither
congressional hearings or repeated petitions calling for a ban have stopped
aspartame manufacturers from exposing the public to this sweet poison. In fact,
aspartame producers are reporting increased sales and boasting the marketplace
addition of 'neotame,' a new aspartame product," explained Mission Possible
International Founder Betty Martini.
For 16 years, the FDA resisted
pressure to approve aspartame due to safety studies linking the artificial
sweetener to numerous adverse reactions, including the development of brain
tumors in animal studies. In 1977, FDA investigator Jerome Bressler released a
report describing how, in clinical studies submitted to the FDA, Searle removed
aspartame-induced brain tumors that developed in lab rats and placed them back
into the study. If the rats died, Bressler reported, Searle would resurrect them
on paper.
In a personal conversation with Martini and prominent
aspartame experts, Doctors H. J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock he admitted the
studies were so bad FDA removed 20% of the most damaging data of his
report.
Three years after Donald Rumsfeld became CEO of Searle, aspartame
was approved for use in dry goods. To find out how he accomplished this feat,
click into the new movie, “Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World” and hear the words of
renowned Washington Consumer Attorney James Turner as he speaks about President
Reagan's Executive Order: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html
Since
its 1981 approval, the FDA has published a list of 92 symptoms of aspartame
poisoning, which includes headaches, vision loss including blindness, seizures,
neurological problems, cardiovascular problems and death. The FDA admits adverse
reactions to aspartame comprise about 80 percent of consumer complaints it
receives each year. Martini has been networking victims, scientists, and
physicians under an umbrella of scientific data and published medical literature
that has been growing since Mission Possible formed in 1992.
Having
exhausted her executive and administrative remedies regarding the removal of
aspartame from the marketplace, Martini is convinced that, "Litigation is the
only way to spare consumers the misery of aspartame poisoning." Martini's
reasoning is supported in the outcomes of recent product liability
controversies. It was class action lawsuits -- not government agency
intervention -- that forced the epidemic of Vioxx-induced heart attacks out into
the open where the FDA had to take administrative action, banning sales of the
dangerous pain relief drug. Information from the experts and in medical texts
show aspartame is actually a neurotoxic drug that interacts with other drugs and
vaccinations.
The story of how aspartame was discovered and approved by
the FDA has been pieced together over the years through documents obtained by
Mission Possible. That aspartame overcame FDA neurotoxicity concerns and is now
found in over 7,000 commonly consumed foods, beverages and medical preparations
is a case study of how power politics trumps science and public safety in the
product approval process.
In one set of documents, aspartame producer
G.D. Searle used poor people from six third-world countries as test subjects for
a study conducted in 1983/84. The data shows that, over the 18-month duration of
the study, some of the subjects developed brain tumors; others began to
experience seizures. In one case, a pregnant woman spontaneously aborted, began
hemorrhaging and then disappeared from the study.
The study showed that
the numbers of people whose brains and central nervous systems are adversely
affected by aspartame are statistically significant enough to warrant a review
of its status as an FDA-approved artificial sweetener. But the FDA was not
provided with the results of the Searle study nor was it allowed to review the
clinical data.
A study was done at Kings College in England by Dr. Peter
Nunn in 1999 on aspartame and brain tumors. Monsanto insisted that aspartame
could not cause brain tumors because it doesn't get in the blood stream even
though Martini says industry's own studies shows it does and released this
information in a report, which can be read at http://www.rense.com/health3/asptumor.htm.
In the
result of this study it said: "Interestingly, when we exposed human brain tumour
cells to nitrosated DKP the cells became more motile and their rate of
proliferation was significantly elevated. While it is somewhat early to
speculate, it is possible that the aspartame breakdown product may be capable of
enhancing the rate of malignant progression of pre-existing (and possibly
clinically silent, undiagnosed) tumours in the brain." This was exactly what the
famed neuroscientist Dr. John Olney said when he made world news in l996 over
the aspartame/brain tumor association.
Monsanto, the maker of the
controversial bovine growth hormone that has been linked to the development of
cancer in humans and cattle, bought Searle (and the rights to produce aspartame)
in 1985. They sold in l999 to other companies.
The prevalence of brain
tumors in the U.S. has been increasing steadily since the early 1980s. Today,
about 70 percent of adults and 40 percent of children are regular consumers of
products that contain aspartame.
"There is not one shred of evidence to
suggest that aspartame is safe. Yet, our files are overflowing with studies and
reports proving that aspartame is a not a food additive but a neurotoxic drug
that breaks down to a brain tumor agent, DKP. And now, 25 years later, we have
epidemic proportions of people developing brain tumors and a full spectrum of
other neurological disorders," Martini said.
Aspartame's road to
marketplace approval and its effect on public health is extremely well
documented. The aspartame story has been described in the 1,038-page medical
text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" by H.J. Roberts, MD. (http://www.sunsentpress.com). Excitotoxins: The Taste That
Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., also describes these problems. http://www.russellblaylockmd.com
Former
aspartame-induced multiple-sclerosis sufferer Cori Brackett traveled over 7,000
miles to interview physicians, scientists, attorneys and FDA investigators about
aspartame neurotoxicity and how then former (and now current) Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld used his political muscle to achieve aspartame's FDA approval.
The result is the powerful video documentary "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World"
(www.soundandfuryproductions.com).
The largest
collection of aspartame-related studies, reports and case histories available
anywhere in the world can be found online at http://www.dorway.com, the Mission Possible website. Aspartame
Toxicity Center is http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
New York and New
Jersey residents who believe they may qualify as a plaintiff in a product
liability lawsuit against aspartame producers are encouraged to contact Mission
Possible at (770) 242-2599. To qualify, one must be able to establish themselves
as an aspartame consumer prior to developing a brain tumor and fall within the
three-year statute of limitations.
Contact:
Dr. Betty
Martini
770 242-2599
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club
Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
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