EFSA blesses formaldehyde-forming aspartame on April 20
NCI backs study linking formaldehyde to leukemia, lymphoma on May 14
From Mission Possible International
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced April 20, 2009: …”on the basis of all the evidence currently available including the [second] published ERF study there is no indication of any genotoxic or carcinogenic potential of aspartame and that there is no reason to revise the previously established ADI (allowable daily intake) for aspartame of 40mg/kg bw/day.” Truth be told: aspartame is an addictive excitoneurotoxic, genetically …

By Paris Reidhead
Got (Aspartame in Your) Milk???
Dairy’s two biggest trade associations have jointly written the Food and Drug Administration requesting that “non-nutritive sweeteners” be included in federal standards of identity for 17 different dairy products, including fluid milk. What’s the logic behind this request to alter federal standards by National Milk Producers Federation and the International Dairy Foods Assn?
NMPF explains that Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) staff on the Senate Agriculture Committee wants to limit the calories in the milk portion of the School Lunch Program. Since flavored (sweetened) milk …

But it’s a look at the power aspartame’s maker had/has in the market place. Wow…

In 2005 the prestigious Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center at the European Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences published the results of their 3 year aspartame study on 1,800 rats, known as the Ramazzini Study. It was the most scrupulous and costly investigation of the chemical sweetener ever performed. Dr. Morando Soffritti led this groundbreaking research that revealed aspartame causes lymphomas and leukemia and is a “multipotential carcinogen.”

By William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
No matter how you look at it, aspartame is bad news in my book. The massive introduction of this neurotoxin into the food supply is nothing less than biological warfare against every single one of us, and the only acceptable solution is to ban it from the food chain.
I wish I could stick to medicine and not get into politics—but the two are attached at the hip—especially in the case of aspartame. So just to make sure we’re all on the same page, let’s go …

By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
The National Yogurt Association (NYA) has petitioned our FDA (Fatal Drugs Allowed) bureaucracy to ditch the requirement that chemicals added to food must be identified by name on the label. NYA wants to conceal their use of aspartame, otherwise called NutraSweet and Equal, from consumers. Like maybe they’ll call it natural flavor or some other imaginative alias.

We get quite a few emails asking about Splenda. While our focus is primarily on aspartame, we’re interested in answering your questions as best as we’re able. A new Duke University study that’s scheduled to be published in The Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health found that Splenda actually contributes to obesity. It also destroys beneficial intestinal bacteria and it may just interfere with the absorption of prescription drugs.
Take a look at an advance copy of the Journal on its Web site.
Need an alternate sweetener? The Feingold Association breaks down …