DORway is committed to helping remove aspartame from the American market. According to this Huffington Post our new FDA Commissioner just might care enough to look at this issue again.
Based on The Delaney Clause, a 1958 amendment to the Food, Drugs and Cosmetic Act, we would like to see the chemical additive aspartame re-evaluated and subsequently banned from our foods.
The Delaney Clause reads: “No additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or laboratory animals or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animals.”
According to multiple studies, including the original study, after which the FDA initially banned aspartame, there is sufficient conclusive evidence that aspartame causes cancer in rats. In 1980, the FDA Public Board Of Inquiry voted unanimously to reject the use of aspartame, because (in their words, not mine.) of:
• Flawed data?
• Brain tumor findings in animal studies?
• Lack of studies on humans to determine long-term effects
This information is a matter of public record.
Currently, aspartame is reportedly available in tens of thousands of products. When it was first approved, the ADI for aspartame was 20 mgm/kgm bodyweight. Then, once it was approved for use in Coke products, the FDA arbitrarily decided it was OK (without additional studies) to raise the limit to 50 mgm per kgm body weight. Consider this: At 20 mgm per kgm bodyweight, a 50 llb child can reach his ADI with 2 and a half cokes.
Please take a moment to sign the petition asking the new FDA commissioner to re-assess and ban aspartame. And we’re looking for 10,000 signatures and I know we can do it – so pass it on!
September 23, 2010 at 1:22 pm
100 signatures in less than 24 hours! We can do it … pass this around. The goal isn’t 1,000 signatures – it’s 10,000 and I feel we can reach it!
Thank you to all who have responded so positively.
November 26, 2010 at 12:23 am
I’ll try to alert the people in my circle of friends. The FDA should be ashamed that this is not a banned substance (along with MSG). Thank you for all your hard work on this site!
~E
November 13, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Posting to my website about this now. I am appalled. Another huge FDA FAIL!!!!
November 17, 2010 at 8:15 pm
GET ASPARTAME OFF OF OUR STORE SHELVES EVERYWHERE!!
December 26, 2010 at 11:32 pm
I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE HARMS THIS PRODUCT CAN DO ,, I NEARLY HAVE ALMOST ALL OF THE SYNTOMS OF THIS POISON ,I ACHE ALL OVER MY BODY MI VISION IS SOME WHAT BLURRED , AND LATELY I FELT DEPRESSED , HAVE HAD HEADACHES, IT IS UNFAIR THAT OUR GOVERNMENT ALOUD THIS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE,,
January 26, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Disgusting!!! Never Ever liked this stuff when it first appeared…..But very very annoyed that these profiteering lying swines stick it in nearly everything…..being extra vigilant with this one…….already dumped a load in the bin…….so I hope they’re reading this!!! I will spread as much as I can by word and net!!!
February 4, 2011 at 9:26 am
I know plenty of family members who have died of cancer by consuming a lot of the things with aspartame in it. I am also irrated at the fact that i cannot consume chewing gum as it has a very high percentage. And the fact that i cannot drink my favourite drink Coca Cola as after every mouthful i have i can strongly taste aspartame…
March 12, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I have been suffering with attacks of heart racing since the beginning of November. I have had approximately 10 test including mra, ct scans and stress tests; all of which were negative.i was put on high blood pressure pills that made me even more sick. i could barely make it through work , much less take care of my home duties and care for my child and animals. i kept telling my daughter that i felt like someone was poisoning me. i just found out about 3 weeks ago(due to the internet) what my problem was. i was injesting aspartme. Since then , i have had no attacks and the blood pressure keeps going down. i may not even need it. i cannot believe the agony, time, money and effort by all involved that could have been avoided if this was not in my food(mostly a sugarfree drink i was using). but i read labels now, and i will NEVER put that poison in my body or my child’s body again( if at all possible). Talk about saving money for healthcare. Just for me , thousands could have been saved, much less the thousands if not millions who are suffering symptoms and being treated for something they may not even have; but what they are eating or drinking. How can the people that passed this poison as a sugar substitute sleep at night, i will never know.
March 20, 2011 at 10:58 pm
I have been drinking diet coke for over thirty years, more so since I stopped drinking alcohol. I go thru about two leters a day. I do notice a difference if its been sitting in a hot car or something like that. I’m addicted. The back of my head gets numb. I’m on narcotics anyway. I would consume way too many calories, but I switch to water half way thru the day now and it helps and I load up on vitamin and mineral supplements.
May 11, 2011 at 10:19 am
get this ASPARTAME be banned, for making our neighbors sick. its very unfair especially to the innocent people.
August 3, 2011 at 3:08 am
IM GOIN OFF ALL FAKE SWEETNERS