To: RXH@CFSAN.FDA.GOV
From: Betty Martini <Mission-Possible-USA@altavista.net
Subject: Open Letter to Dr. Rudolph Harris of the FDA
Cc: mfriedman@oc.fda.gov, netinfo@cdc.gov, web@usdoj.gov,
jane.garvey@faa.dot.gov

Dear Dr. Harris:  Just before the CNN aspartame/NutraSweet whitewash in
which activists were labeled "toxic terrorists" I called you for the FDA
to preserve its honor by telling the Truth.  We discussed the 52 week
study on 7 infant monkeys, #SC-18862, in which 5 had grand mal seizures
and one died. I told you I failed to understand how this pivotal study
used to approve aspartame proved safety.  You emphasized that this
monkey study  was NOT a "Pivotal Study!"  Yet on 1/10/94 you personally
wrote Barbara Alexander Mullarkey at the Wednesday Journal and listed it
as a pivotal study.  You said:

"Dear Mrs. Mullarkey:  This is in response to your July 26 request, for
an answer from the Commissioner on the question:

"Of the 112 studies, in the Index of Master File No. 134 for Aspartame,
A Nutritive Sweetener with Flavor Enhancing Properties, which are
considered pivotal for approval?"

The following studies were considered pivotal.

Entry No. FAMF 134                Title
E-5		An Evaluation of Embryotoxic and Teratogenic Potential
		in the Rat (SC-18862)

E-11 		Two Generation Reproduction Study in Rats (SC-18862)

E-28		106 Week Oral Toxicity Dog Study (SC-18862)

E-32		52-WEEK ORAL TOXICITY IN THE INFANT MONKEY (SC-18862)

E-33		Appendix:  Two Year Toxicity Study in the Rat (SC-18862)

E-34		Two Year Toxicity Study in the Rat (SC-18862)

E-70		Lifetime Toxicity Study in the Rat (SC-18862)

E-75		104-Week Toxicity in the Mouse (SC-18862)

E-76		110-Week Toxicity Study in the Mouse (SC-19192)

E-77 & 78	115-Week Oral Tumorigenicity Study in the Rat (SC-19192)

E-86		A Supplemental Study of Dog Brains from a 106-Week Oral
		Toxicity Study (SC-18862)

E-87		A Supplemental Study of Rat Brains from Two
		Tumorigenicity Studies (SC-18862)

E-89		An Evaluation of Embryotoxic and Teratogenic Potential
		in the Mouse (SC-18862)

E-90		An Evaluation of Embryotoxic and Teratogenic Potential
		in the Rabbit (SC-18862)

We also note there were other studies of interest in considering the
safety review for aspartame approval.

    Sincerely yours,
    Rudolph Harris, Ph.D.
    Branch Chief
    Novel Ingredients Branch, HFS-207
    Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition"

So here is the proof that in your own letter on stationery of the
Department of Health & Human Services (FDA) you admitted that E-32, the
52 Week Oral Toxicity in the Infant Monkey study, was pivotal and used
to approve aspartame.  I'll say it again, I fail to understand how a
study that showed 5 out of 7 monkeys having grand mal seizures triggered
by aspartame proves safety.  Can you answer me that or is going to be
like the other 26 questions given the FDA by Newt Gingrich that have
gone unanswered now for 3 years!  (on www.dorway.com)

The FDA's own report of 92 symptoms shows 4 types of seizures triggered
by aspartame!  And while we are talking about this report, I was called
by Ian Connacher from Shift Magazine in Canada who told me he called the
FDA about this report and was told it was not a FDA report.  I had to
fax it to him on FDA stationery to show him it was, and then these
statistics were published in their April issue of Shift.

Because of FDA approval so many pilots are having grand mal seizures in
the cockpits of commercial airliners.  Three American Airline pilots who
were heavy users of aspartame died in the past 1 1/2 years, one in
flight.  Would they be alive today if FDA had not approved this chemical
poison?  I believe they would.  Has the  FDA  sold out to corporate
interests, Monsanto/Searle/NutraSweet?  This is definitely a betrayal of
the suffering people of the world who exhibit the 92 symptoms and more,
and diseases triggered by aspartame including seizures, blindness and
death.  Care the FDA not for multitudes, distressed and dying from this
addictive killer?

If you care for us go on public record and decry the skullduggery
employed to put this poison in our food.  Fraud so blatant the
Department of Justice started to prosecute the manufacturer, but failed
when the prosecutors, Skinner and Conlon, joined the defense lawyers and
the statute of limitations ran out.

You told me that all the case histories we send the FDA were, in fact,
being added to the report.  You said you had my address.  Where are
they?

Now it's your turn at bat, Dr. Harris.  If you permit this scam to
persist, will it then be the FDA who is the toxic terrorist, Father of
Atrocities?!

As I told Dr. Friedman, you cannot put out this fire!  You and FDA knew
all along that I was the one who lectured for the World Environmental
Conference, having to do with the Nancy Markle post.  FDA denial did not
stop the issue.  The last call I got from someone reading the post was 5
minutes ago, Esther Elaine Hung from Charlotte, North Carolina, giving a
lecture on it.  Like others she said: "I used aspartame and recognized
the symptoms.  I got off and the symptoms disappeared."  Now she has
become an activist  to warn others.  Some people call and say they have
made hundreds of copies.  The EPA denial didn't work either.  I have
just posted with permission of Dr. Clarice Gaylord, the admission from
EPA of why they denied the story.  Dr. Gaylord was the one at the World
Environmental Conference who said: "We have an epidemic of MS and lupus
and cannot identify the toxin."  Thats when I said: "I'm Betty Martini
from Mission Possible and I'm here to lecture on MS and lupus and
identify the toxin as NutraSweet."

You see, Dr. Harris, the Truth is incontrovertible.  Malice may attack
it and ignorance may deny it, but in the end there it is!  Dr. James
Bowen many years ago told the FDA that aspartame was mass poisoning of
the American public and more than 70 countries of the world (on
www.dorway.com).  If the FDA had listened and removed this deadly toxin
no doubt thousands would still be alive today including babies murdered
in their mother's womb because there is no warning that aspartame is a
teratogen as Dr. Louis Elsas discussed in Congress.  And if FDA had not
approved it, Dr. Bowen who used it, would not now have Lou Gehrigs!

Betty Martini, Founder
Mission Possible International
770 242-2599