Dear Dr. Von Eschenbach:

When you were working for the National Cancer Institute you declared
a goal of "eliminating suffering and death due to cancer by
2015". If you really mean it you should immediately recall
aspartame, an excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug masquerading as an
additive used by 70% of the population and over 30% of
children. That it causes cancer is a given. Read FDA's own audit on
aspartame, the Bressler Report, mentioning such things as
adenocarcinoma and brain tumors. Jerome Bressler exposed how Searle
was caught excising these brain tumors, putting the rats back in the
study and then resurrecting them on paper. FDA's own toxicologist,
Dr. Adrian Gross, wrote to Senator Howard Metzenbaum two letters
listing brain tumors found in studies.

Here are both letters as well as a memo: http://www.dorway.com/gross.txt

FDA's toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, also testified before Congress
that aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment which says if a product
causes cancer in animals it cannot be put in food. The recent
Ramazzini Study in Italy confirmed again that aspartame is a
multipotential carcinogen. http://www.wnho.net/cancer_study_obligates_recall.htm

The law requires FDA recall this carcinogen. There are no excuses
that can change this.

Attorney James Turner, Esquire, author of the Chemical Feast and the
Nader Report on Food Protection at FDA said this on the issue of
aspartame and cancer: "Since l974 FDA and the Searle Drug Company
have known that aspartame causes brain tumors in animals. Since Nov
of l980 the public has known the Public Board of Inquiry affirmed the
nature of the Searle studies that showed cancer in animals and ruled
that it should not be used in the food supply. Since 1992 we have
known that there was a 10% rise in human brain tumors the year
following the introduction of NutraSweet/aspartame into the
market. Since l991 we have known there was a mechanism that
transforms NutraSweet/aspartame into a known carcinogenic
substance. It is past time that the FDA invoked the Delaney Clause
and remove NutraSweet from the market. Most recently in July of 2005
further studies (Ramazzini) have underscored the cancer causing
capability of NutraSweet/aspartame in animals." You can see Mr.
Turner in Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World. Here he tells how
aspartame got approved when the FDA said no.
http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html Aspartame remains
in violation of the Delaney Clause. Industry has tried for years to
ban it but Delaney Lives. Here is the article from the Environmental
Law Reporter:

Russell Blaylock, M.D. , a Board Certified Neurosurgeon (Ret), author
of Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills about aspartame, Health &
Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life and Natural Strategies for
Cancer Patients, said this today:

"I have been impressed with the number and quality of research
demonstrating the harmful, accumulative toxic effects of the
aspartame product. Research demonstrating DNA damage from
aspartame's metabolic components are beyond question. Likewise, the
effects of each component of aspartame, the aspartate, phenylalanine
and methanol, have been demonstrated. We know that aspartame in
conjunction with MSG greatly enhance excitotoxicity, a central
mechanism of a great number of degenerative neurological disorders,
including Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease, ALS and multiple
sclerosis. In addition, we better understand this link and that all
of these conditions could be made worse and advance faster in the
face of aspartame consumption. There is also compelling evidence to
indicate that heavy aspartame consumption can unmask subclinical
cases of MS into full blown cases. In the face of all we know about
the harmful effects of this product its further use should be banned."

Dr. Blaylock is also a visiting professor of Biology at Belhaven
College. In his book Excitotoxins he discusses the brain tumor issue in
full.

Ralph G. Walton, M.D., Medical Director of Safe Harbor Behavioral
Health, professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio
Universities College of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry,
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine also today discussed the
issue of aspartame. He said:

"When I first published a paper on adverse reactions to aspartame
more than 20 years ago I felt that, with appropriate warnings, it
could remain on the market. Over the past two decades, however, I
have seen such severe adverse clinical consequences to the use of
this artificial sweetener that I am convinced that it needs to be
removed from the market. It clearly lowers seizure threshold, alters
brain chemistry in a fashion which aggravates multiple underlying
psychiatric disorders, paradoxically contributes to weight gain, can
mimic neurological diseases such as MS, and produces metabolites
which are known carcinogens. Tragically the medical literature is
split on the question of aspartame's safety. Independently funded
studies invariably identify one or more problems, whereas essentially
all of the literature attesting to aspartame's safety is funded by
the industry."

When Dr. John Olney made world news in l996 on the aspartame and
brain tumor association, Dr. Walton was on 60 Minutes with his
research showing that 92% of all independent scientific peer reviewed
studies showed problems. He said if you removed 6 studies FDA had
something to do with because of the controversy, and one
pro-aspartame summary, 100% of unbiased independent studies showed
the problems. Only industry funded studies said it was safe.
http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html>http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html

Yet FDA sold out the people again. Acting FDA Commissioner Dr.
Michael Friedman stated on 60 Minutes that aspartame did not cause
brain tumors, even though his own FDA records showed that it did. It
was so shameful I flatly asked him when he would get his reward from
Monsanto. In June l999 they hired Dr. Friedman as VP of Searle for a
half a million dollars. Quite a reward.

In the Ramazzini Study only rats fed aspartame developed malignant
brain tumors. http://www.wnho.net/new_aspartame_studies.htm
Aspartame also caused leukemia, lymphoma, cancer of the kidneys and
peripheral nerves, especially cranial.

Neurochemist Dr. Peter Nunn and Geoffrey Pilkington did a study at
Kings College about 4 years ago having to do with aspartame and brain
tumors which is as yet unpublished. In it was this statement: "When
we exposed human brain tumor 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 agrees with Dr. John Olney's findings who founded the field of
neuroscience called Excitotoxicity and tried to prevent aspartame's
approval. He is one of the most renowned neuroscientists in the world today.

For even more on the cover-up of aspartame as a carcinogen read a
list of the whoppers from industry: http://www.wnho.net/whopper.htm It's all in the record.

FDA has always served above the law for over a quarter of a
century. The law says you must answer a Citizens Petition within 180
days. I wrote a petition four years ago and the only response I got
was FDA had more important things to do. FDA didn't answer it
because they know aspartame is a neurotoxin and has lied to the
public. I told them not to send a packet of propaganda, but answer
my petition. Here it is: http://www.wnho.net/citizens_aspartame_petition.htm
After more than two decades on the market FDA knows well the destructive and fatal consequences of this poison. The FDA's own list of 92 symptoms includes four types of seizures to coma and death.

H. J. Roberts, M.D., testified before Congress and said at his first
press conference that if something wasn't done immediately in 5 or 10
years we would have a global plague on our hands. Today Aspartame
Disease is fast becoming one of the deadliest plagues in history. I've taken histories of the sick and dying for 15 years, and every victim knows a dozen more cases. Dr. Roberts medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" is 1038 pages of horrors caused by this excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug masquerading as an additive. http://www.sunsentpress.com
It interacts with all drugs and vaccines making nothing on the market safe for consumers. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm

Dr. Roberts wrote today:

"I have studied the adverse effects of aspartame products for a
quarter century, and extensively documented them in many articles
and four books. They are frequent and often severe -- encompassing
numerous neurologic, psychiatric, metabolic, cardiovascular,
pulmonary, allergic, endocrine, cutaneous, and pediatric
disorders. I have described these reactions as "aspartame disease."
(A detailed bibliography is available.)

There also are a host of major pharmacologic and toxicologic
considerations, especially poisoning with free methyl alcohol, and
genetic (transgenerational) ramifications Indeed, it is my firm
conviction that no pregnant woman should use these products.

On the basis of this prolonged experience and research, it is my
conclusion as a Board-certified internist that aspartame products
constitute an imminent public health threat, and ought to be removed
from the market." (HJrobertsmd@aol.com)

You have the evidence. FDA once asked for indictment for Searle
under Title 18, Section 1001. Today they are guilty of the same crime
by deceiving the public. See your Board of Inquiry Report revoking
the petition for approval: http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc

Dr. John Olney testified to the Board that if aspartame was approved
the damage it would do to our children born and unborn as its a
teratogen and abortifacient. FDA agreed, one reason they revoked
Searle's petition for approval. http://www.wnho.net/dr_olney1.doc

Dr. Olney's prophecy has now been fulfilled. 9/99: Parents Magazine
featured the article: "What's Wrong With Our Children?" One mother
lamented, "Why aren't our children normal?"

"They are normal," another responded. "Every child has a disorder
these days." .... "Their children - and their children's classmates
- are being diagnosed with mental health problems at an alarming
rate. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that there
are 12 million children under 18 with mental disorders. ... By the
end of high school, one in four teens will have seriously considered
suicide."

"The problem is so widespread that it's getting hard to find anyone
whose son, niece, godchild, or grandchild hasn't been affected. Some
observers are calling it an epidemic and demanding that screening
programs, just like the ones for tuberculosis and other diseases, be
put into place."

Aspartame triggers psychiatric and behavioral problems. 50% of the
molecule is phenylalanine that lowers the seizure threshold and
depletes serotonin, triggering bipolar or manic depression, suicidal
tendencies, panic attacks, paranoia and hallucinations, for starters.
Dr. Richard J. Wurtman, of MIT edited: "Dietary Phenylalanine and
Brain Function." He testified before Congress and wanted to do
studies on aspartame seizures, but was threatened by the VP of
Searle if he did research funds would be rejected. They were.
http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.html ILSI is a research front group
funded by aspartame makers and those using it like Coke. Today MIT
gets funds and Dr. Wurtman speaks no more against aspartame. MIT has
withdrawn the book. We have copies.

Dr. Louis Elsas, pediatric professor, genetics, then at Emory
University, also testified before Congress aspartame is a neurotoxin
and teratogen and his research funds were also rejected: Here is
part of his testimony before Congress including information on
ILSI: http://www.dorway.com/elsas.txt And
more: http://www.dorway.com/dr-elsas.txt

Now our kids are addicts on aspartame and drugged with such things as
Ritalin for the problems it causes. Aspartame interacts with all
drugs and vaccines so our children don't have a chance. Dr. Olney
predicted the damage aspartame would do to the brains of our children
and especially compounded with MSG which has an additive and
synergistic effect. Prior to the marketing of aspartame whoever
heard of children on anti-psychotic drugs, or even that there was a problem.

In the book, "Fight For Your Health" by Byron J. Richards is this AP
article:

Anti-Psychotics for Kids Raise Concerns:

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- "Soaring numbers of American children are
being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs -- in many cases, for attention
deficit disorder or other behavioral problems for which these
medications have not been proven to work, a study found. The annual
number of children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs jumped fivefold
between 1995 and 2002, to an estimated 2.5 million, the study
said. That is an increase from 8.6 out of every 1,000 children in
the mid l990s to nearly 40 out of 1,000" ..

The article continued, "But more than half of the prescriptions were
for attention deficit and other non-psychotic conditions, the
researchers said. The findings are worrisome "because it looks like
these medications are being used for large numbers of children in a
setting where we don't know if they work," said lead author Dr.
William Cooper, a pediatrician at Vanderbilt children's Hospital."

A New York Times article July 16, 2006 was titled "Checklist for
Camp: Bug Spray. Sunscreen. Pills." The article started "The
breakfast buffet at Camp Echo starts at a picnic table covered in
gingham-patterned oil cloth. Here, children jostle for their morning
medications: Zoloft for depression, Abilify for bipolar disorder,
Guanfacine for twitchy eyes and a host of medications for attention
deficit disorder."

You should find this interesting since bipolar is an adult disease,
but now over a million children suffer from it according to the front
page article in Time some years ago. This is what aspartame has done
to our children. It knows no age as it depletes serotonin from their
brain triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems, and interacts
with the psycho drugs used to treat the problems it causes. How
hideous and the FDA turns it back on the people with its loyalty to
Big Pharma who cares not for the lives of our children, just greed in
selling more of its dangerous drugs.

Aspartame is addictive. The methanol component is a narcotic
bringing chronic methanol poisoning, affecting the dopamine system
of the brain and causes the addiction. On 5/17/2006 Dorothy Rugg
wrote and said: "My 12 year old and her friends have found a way to
get "hyper" by ingesting individual-size packages of Crystal Lite
without water. I've brought it to the school's/doctor's attention
especially since the girls are emulating illegal drug use - passing
it around and sharing like it were a drug - to get "hyper".

Is there a difference in snorting cocaine? One victim once wrote she
used cocaine in high school and it was easier to get off cocaine than
aspartame. Here is Dr. H. J. Roberts published article on Aspartame
and Addiction: http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html Other mothers
have contacted me that their kids are getting high on the Listerine
strips with aspartame. Why does FDA allow marketing of a narcotic to
children?

Aspartame is an illegal drug and should immediately be
recalled. The protest of the National Soft Drink Association that
was added to the May, 1985 congressional hearing admitted aspartame
to be illegal because it is adulterated:

"Section 402 of the FDC Act 21 provides a food is adulterated if it
contains, in whole or in part "...a decomposed substance or if it is
otherwise unfit for food". The National Soft Drink Association in
their protest against aspartame approval in l983 recorded this, as
found in the Congressional Record of May 7, l985, Page S 5509, Senate.

NSDA knew aspartame decomposes in soft drinks. They objected: "Searle
has not demonstrated to a reasonable certainty that aspartame and its
degradation products are safe for use in soft drinks. ... Aspartame
is inherently markedly and uniquely unstable in aqueous media. In a
liquid, such as a soft drink aspartame will degrade as a function of
temperature and pH." S5507

Inferior test methods were used by Searle as NSDA explained: "High
pressure liquid chromotography is a far superior analytical method
relative to thin layer chromatography and numerous HPLC methods exist
for the detection and quantification of amino acids. Searle's choice
of TLC over HPLC adversely affected the quality and type of
analytical data generated on aspartame and its decomposition products
in soft drinks." S5507 .... " an important decomposition product of
APM, aspartic acid cannot be detected at all using TLC." S 5508

"The inability to account for as much as thirty-nine percent of
aspartame's decomposition products is significant." "The marked and
rapid decomposition of aspartame in soft drinks under temperatures
known to prevail is apparent from data in the present record and
discussed above in these objections." S 5509 (So APM could not be
legally added to carbonated beverages under Section 402 because it
decomposes and NSDA admitted that happens.)

You will find this on www.dorway.com and here is the actual May
1985 congressional record: http://wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc

Since it's adulterated and a crime to add it to carbonated drinks, it
also violates interstate commerce statutes. Aspartame is also illegal
because it's an excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug masquerading as an
additive. Additives must be inert or non-reactive by law.

Aspartame manufacturers have been telling whoppers for years and the
FDA fed them h to the public and physicians blinding them from
diagnosing and treating aspartame victims. Professional ladies like
the American Dietetic and American Diabetes Associations, MS folks
and such take money from the manufacturers to push their
propaganda in violation of Title 18, Section 1001 because they
have been told for years.

So victims of aspartame have had nowhere to turn. Because of this
aspartame detoxification centers are being set up in many cities and
in other countries to refer victims to so they can help,
all because FDA broke the law.

It was July 2005 when the Cancer Research Center of the European
Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences in Bologna, Italy
reported on a long term study to evaluate the potential carcinogenic
effects of aspartame. They said it induces an increase in lymphomas
and leukemias. Only the rats fed aspartame developed malignant brain
tumors. In September 2005 at an international scientific conference
it was announced that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen which
also caused cancer of the kidney and peripheral nerves, mostly
cranial. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. commented: "The new
study released in the European Journal of Oncology by Morando
Soffritti and co-workers should terrify mothers and all those
consuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully done
study which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant increase
in several types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of these
malignancies have increased significantly in this country since the
widespread use of aspartame."

"This study confirmed the previous study by Dr. Trocho and
co-workers, which also found the formaldehyde breakdown products of
aspartame ato be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage ewas
accumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated
with cancers. Along with this most recent study, this means that
drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame everyday could
increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia."

Dr. Blaylock also said "with children and pregnant women drinking the
largest amount of diet colas, this puts their children at the
greatest risk of developing one of these horrible disease. Their
study found that even low doses of aspartame could cause these
malignancies; yet, the higher the dose, the more cancers that were seen."

Sharon Fowler of the University of Texas did an epidemiological study
based on 8 years of data linking obesity with diet drinks. Dr.
Blaylock also said: "Since aspartame can increase obesity and may
even case the metabolic syndrome that affects 48 million Americans,
there is no reason to ever consume this product. At the least it
should be immediately banned from all schools."

The FDA has broken so many laws we have no choice but to provide every school in the nation with a 24 page booklet with this information to save the children, to be published by the Idaho Observer, http://www.idaho-observer.com which issues the Artificially
Sweetened Times. Here are three letters to be enclosed in that booklet.

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_potential_danger.htm Dr. Roberts
http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_and_children_report.htm Dr. Walton
http://www.wnho.net/alabama_boe_meeting.htm Alabama Board of Education

The Ramazzini Study simply confirmed what the FDA saw over two
decades ago, a deadly, deadly multipotential carcinogen, that in
original studies triggered brain tumors and brain cancer, testicular,
ovarian, mammary, pancreatic, thyroid, and uterine tumors.

The Delaney Amendment clearly states if a product causes cancer in
animals it can't be put in foods. Instead of immediately removing
aspartame from the marketplace, there has been nothing but more
efforts at cover-up.

Bogus Aspartame Is Safe Study Exposed by Experts:
http://www.wnho.net/bogus_aspartame_study.htm

NIH and NCI Halt The Spin on Bogus Aspartame Study:
http://www.wnho.net/halt_the_spin_on_bogus_studies.htm

With links to aspartame manufacturers on the committee of the
European Safe Food Authority nothing was done. Because the Ramazinni
study was so precise there was no way to cover up the massive
carcinogenic effects of aspartame. So EFSA did a despicable thing,
they made up a fairy tale. Experts laughed as they tried to get away
with "the cancer was due to respiratory disease". Any physician
knows that respiratory disease is part of the dying
process. Aspartame kills! Dr. Soffritti the Director of the
Ramazzini naturally exposed their
lie: http://www.ramazzini.it/eng/fondazione/eventidettagli.asp?id=292
Yet, the now discredited European Food Safety Authority has been
silent. They had to say something, even a lie, to avoid any action
to restrict or prohibit aspartame from European tables because they
collude with aspartame producers.

Now FDA says they are investigating Ramazzini. Why? FDA knows
aspartame causes cancer and admitted it to Congress. It's on record,
and we have it. The Bressler Report exposes shenanigans of Searle in
trying to get a their poison approved. http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt

I personally spoke to Jerome Bressler in 2001 to thank him for
releasing the truth. He said when FDA retyped his report they left
out the worst 20%, and to attempt to get them to release it. He
mentioned two mice studies and a cover letter. Doctors H. J. Roberts
and Russell Blaylock confirmed this information after speaking with him.

On November 27, 2001, Dr. Roberts wrote to Bill Nelson in the US
Senate and explained how this important information was
withheld. He asked for the two mouse studies done at Searle
Laboratories which were reviewed by the inspection team of the
Chicago District of the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
between April and September of l977. He considered the subject to be
an imminent public health hazard, and urged Senator Nelson to put
pressure on the FDA to acquire these documents.

On April 18, 2002, Melinda Plaisier, Associate commissioner for
Legislation wrote.. "some documents are considered confidential under
FDA's FOI regulations and in some instances the Agency cannot
acknowledge the existence of such documents." This is hideous;
studies show the public is consuming something dangerous and unsafe
it immediately becomes confidential and cannot even be acknowledged
to exist. I'm quite familiar with Melinda Plaisier and have corresponded with her. Every time she lied I quoted the record to show she was lying. She just lied some more. Finally a magazine in England published a letter.

FDA for years has refused to answer questions like why a product like
aspartame is allowed when it liberates free methyl alcohol. Dr.
Roberts question has gone unanswered for years. Diane Fleming, a
Sunday School teacher from Virginia today cries from her cell in
prison. She has lost her children, her home, her husband and her
freedom because aspartame killed Charles Fleming. When they found
the methanol poisoning with the autopsy also revealing chronic
methanol poisoning for years, she was indicted even though she called
the police and passed a lie detector test. As one detective said,
"she is innocent and I would have stopped the indictment but I was
promoted just at that time and couldn't stop it". Several doctors
who viewed the autopsy wrote affidavits that Charles Fleming died
from aspartame. He was addicted.

Aspartame also damages the cardiac conduction and causes sudden
death, so an Athlete Alert was written by Dr. Blaylock: http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm

Today so many are dropping dead that two Parliamentarians have
petitioned the World Health Organization to declare sudden death a
syndrome and track it. FDA knows people drop dead from aspartame,
but blame athlete deaths on ephedra. Dr. John Olney reviewed their
records and exposed FDA.

See "Prescription for Disaster about Big Pharma" by Dr. Gary Null. I
listened with respect to the words of Dr. Graham of the FDA who
exposed them. FDA tried to discredit him, the usual penalty for
whistleblowers. All these tactics are expertly exposed in John
Stauber's books, "Trust Us, We're Experts", and "Toxic Sludge Is Good
For You". One whistleblower also attacked, Alan Jones, said its all
...."you're on your own, there is no longer any safety."

FDA has betrayed the public. Their job has been to enrich Big
Pharma. They take their money and approve their deadly drugs, defend
them and lie to the people. The FDA lies to doctors telling them
aspartame is safe when they know it causes an epidemic of diseases
and interacts with drugs. FDA ties the hands of physicians because
they can neither diagnose or treat. For example, aspartame is a
proven seizure triggering drug. When a doctor sees a victim having
an aspartame seizure he doesn't know the cause and immediately puts
them on some anti-seizure medication like Dilantin which
interacts. FDA has become PR of Big Pharma.

It breaks my heart when someone like young Kelli Motluck with a
head full of aspartame brain tumors cries "I want to live, I want to
live, I want to live, but if I die you must tell the world that
Monsanto murdered me." She left a grieving husband and small child
to grow up without a mother.

I remember one pregnant woman refused to quit using aspartame during
pregnancy because she said FDA had approved it. Then she gave birth
to a baby with a brain tumor. Think of the suffering of that innocent before it died because FDA approved a carcinogen.

The FDA seems most importantly wanting to prevent the public from
using safe supplements so Big Pharma can sell more dangerous
drugs. I read in USA Today on July 13 the FDA's warning not to use
online libido supplements because the products contain chemicals that
are similar or identical to the active pharmaceutical ingredients in
Viagra and Livitra, and the undeclared ingredients could interact
with nitrates found in some prescription drugs such as
nitroglycerin. But its quite alright to use Viagra. Germany's health
ministry said even back in 2001 that 616 people had died after using
this drug. No deaths from supplements, only drugs.

So why are we spammed daily with hundreds of ads for Viagra in the
first place? You have 70% of the population using aspartame which
damages the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus produces
gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GRH). The GRH goes down the stalk
between the hypothalamus and pituitary and causes the pituitary then
to produce gonadotropins. The ganglia goes to the testicles and
causes them to produce testosterone. When you're causing hypothalmic
destruction with neuroexcitotoxins like NutraSweet you're suppressing
the formation of male hormone without which there is no sexual drive
or pleasure for either. In original studies aspartame triggered
atrophied testes and testicular tumors. It's by this route.

So if the FDA is so concerned about interaction why is aspartame on
the market interacting with all drugs? Even a recent study in
Liverpool proved aspartame interacts with additives. It interacts to
interfere with the development of the nervous system. The Liverpool
team reported that when mouse nerve cells were exposed to MSG and
brilliant blue or aspartame and quinoline yellow in laboratory
conditions, combined in concentrations that theoretically reflect the
compound that enters the bloodstream after a typical children's snack
and drink, the additives stopped the nerve cells growing and
interfered with proper signalling system. The report said that
exposure to food additives during a child's development has been
associated with behavioral problems such as attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder. http://www.organicconsumers.org/toxic/msg010306.cfm

Now a study from Greece.
http://www.wnho.net/new_greek_aspartame_studies.htm This implicates
aspartame with learning and memory problems - bottom line
Alzheimers. Memory loss is so common with aspartame its #9 on FDA's
own list of 92 symptoms.

It's impossible for a study on aspartame to show safety. That's
why front groups like ILSI hand out money.

Aspartame manufacturers are pros at fixing studies. Here's how they
do it: http://www.dorway.com/wurtman2.html

Scientists who do honest independent and unbiased studies are
threatened by aspartame makers. The Trocho Study is an example. This
showed that the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol
accumulates in the cells and damages DNA. As discussed in the
medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic," victims are
pre-embalmed. As a physician you know when you damage DNA
you destroy humanity.

Studies were done in South and Central America by Searle sacrificing
people in poor villages who wouldn't be missed. I have the affidavit
of the translator. These studies showed what we already know that
aspartame destroys the brain and central nervous system, triggers
seizures and brain tumors, and hardens the synovial fluids. Naturally the pregnant woman lost her baby. People died in the study and Searle never published it.

In Norway a study showed aspartame destroys the brain especially in
the area of learning, just as Dr. Olney predicted.

The public demands the recall. Parlimentarian Williams demanded the
recall in England. Robin Goodwin, whose wife had an aspartame brain
tumor, and daughter suffered seizures for 18 years until they removed
aspartame, demanded the recall in the Falkland Islands. He took
matters in his own hands to save the people by writing every person
in the Falkslands. For months aspartame products remain on the
shelves unsold. Stephen Fox of New Mexico petitioned the
Environmental Improvement Board and Board of Pharmacy to ban
aspartame because it violates state and federal adulteration
statutes. Ajinomoto must have spent millions to prevent hearings the
Board had voted twice to have. The bottomless checkbooks bought
lobbyists trained in influence. But its not over. As New Mexico
Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino wrote, Aspartame is Just Buying
Time. http://www.rense.com/general69/nmm2.htm

Others are lined up to get this poison out of their state. China
just restricted aspartame production: http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=16695

Secretary of Defense, Don Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle when the FDA
originally refused to approve aspartame. He said he would call in
his markers and get it approved anyway. From the aspartame
documentary "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,"
http:///soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html A quarter of a century
has gone by and millions have perished from the neurodegenerative
diseases, drug interactions and cancers triggered by this chemical
poison once listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective
biochemical warfare submitted to Congress. http://www.wnho.net/the_ecologist_aspartame_report.htm

It's time to clean up this mess, Dr. Von Eschenbach, and stop people
from dying the world over. Vioxx murdered 60,000, more than those
who died in the Vietnam War. My brother was a Green Beret, he
survived a plane crash and Agent Orange but aspartame has destroyed
his heart, and the addiction has almost taken his life. Diet drinks
were piled high in the Persian Gulf becoming formaldehyde cocktails
and interacting with unsafe vaccines. Desert Storm Illness, or
Aspartame Disease, by friendly fire murdered more than the enemy.
http://www.wnho.net/aspartameandgulfwar.htm

Now Big Pharma has found away to remove their liability. Obviously
they have never been in the "life-saving business" only a business of
greed where they consider death and disability acceptable costs of
business.

If you really mean you want to stop the suffering from cancer than
recall the carcinogen. If you ignore this letter as FDA has ignored
the Citizens Petition for ban you will show your words meaning nothing.

I ask you, Dr. Von Eschenbach, to not insult my intelligence with
propaganda. I have copies of FDA's records showing aspartame is
nothing more than a chemical poison. Sending out propaganda lying
about aspartame safety comes under Title 18, Section 1001. It's a
grotesque and appalling act by a federal agency sworn to protect the
public with safe food and drugs.

Stephen Fox also wrote today requesting that you rescind the FDA's
approval for aspartame which is metabolized as, among other things,
methanol and formaldehyde, which is doing incontrovertible harm to
millions of those who consume it. He says further: "Aspartame
approval was forced through the US Food and Drug Administration in
l981, after having been rejected from l966 to l981, in a regulatory
coup by Donald Rumsfeld, when he was CEO of G.D. Searle. This
mistake has resulted in millions of Americans with neurodegenerative
illnesses and cancer, birth defects, and other illnesses, and even
more humans are afflicted in other nations.

"The USA has dropped to 29th in world longevity statistics and it's
long over due that the FDA rescind the approval for aspartame, found
in 6000 USA food products, and in more than 500 medications. China
has curtailed its aspartame production, and the Netherlands is
withdrawing from Holland Sweeteners. We ask that you rescind the
approval for aspartame as a way of protecting millions of American's
health, and not capitulate to the corporations who will object on the
grounds of concern for their product liabilities. To protect the
health of all nations, particularly the USA's, would be a commendable
and welcome advance into the future, one which would bring the most
excellent dividends of increased creativity and productivity among
all of our citizens."

Dr. Von Eschenbach, when those responsible to solve the problem ARE
the problem its a sad commentary FDA has betrayed the consumer
public. It would be a refreshing change to have a commissioner interested in safe food and drugs. By recalling aspartame you send a message you want to stop the poisoning of the people. By not recalling it you show yourself as just an addition to the staff of Big Pharma, Washington's Branch Office. I ask you to think of the millions of lost and damaged children this deadly poison has caused, and the human suffering as aspartame destroys the brain, central nervous system, optic nerve and immune system. It ravages every organ in the body. If you meant your words you wish to stop the suffering and death from cancer, this is your avenue to realize your commitment.

Respectfully,

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum., Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
www.wnho.net, www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

CC: The Honorable George Bush, II
The White House
2500 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20510