New Sweetener more dangerous than Aspartame.

[Sara Klein Ridgley PhD]

To add some more info to the discussion on Aspartame.....
Sara
For Immediatae Release Contact: Mary Stoddard 214-352-4268

U.S. FOOD SUPPLY SAFETY THREATENED TODAY WITH FDA APPROVAL OF
CONTROVERSIAL NEW ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER 13,000 TIMES SWEETER THAN SUGAR

DALLAS, July 5, 2002 -

(Aspartame Consumer Safety Network) - In response to FDA and Monsanto's
announcement today that approval has been granted for use of the new
sweetener, Neotame as a food additive in baked goods, aqueous solution
and as a table top sweetener, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, issues
the following statement:

Seventy-eight percent of all FDA complaints pertain to aspartame
adverse reactions.

ACSN has thousands of serious reactions in their files. These reports
include: grand mal seizures, brain tumors, blindness and other
health-related problems including deaths.

Monsanto's Nick Rosa stated in 1998, that Neotame is "based on the
aspartame formula."

Since we believe this to be true, Dallas-based Aspartame Consumer Safety
Network vigorously opposes today's approval and urges consumers to avoid
the new fake sugar if they want to remain healthy.

Neotame is aspartame plus 3-di-methyl-butyl, which can be found on the
EPA's list of most hazardous chemicals. The aspartame formula is
comprised of Phenylalanine, which caused seizures in lab animals and
Aspartic Acid, which caused "holes in the brains" of lab animals -
bonded by Methyl Alcohol, or Methanol which is capable of causing
blindness, liver damage and death.

Methanol, or wood alcohol in aspartame breaks down further in heat and
in the body, into Formaldehyde (embalming fluid), Formic Acid (venom
in ant stings) and the most deadly of all - Diketopiperazine (DKP), a
brain tumor agent.

ACSN's files contain in excess of 10,000 responses from the public,
including thousands of serious adverse reactions to Monsanto's aspartame.

As a founder of the world's burgeoning anti-aspartame movement,
Stoddard was the first non-M.D.engaged to lecture at a major medical
school on the topic of Aspartame (Jan. 1997). ACSN founder, Stoddard
recently concluded a multi-city lecture tour and finds interest in
this topic to be extremely high - here and all over the world.

Recently, a story appeared in London's Sunday Mirror, featuring an
adverse reaction of a child whose parents are members of A.C.S.N.
(Aspartame Consumer Safety Network). Aspartame has been identified and
denounced as a major risk factor by consumers in over a dozen countries.

According to FDA Toxicologists who gave testimony with Stoddard in
1987 at a Senate Hearing on the subject - the tests to get aspartame
approved were falsified. Deaths of lab animals were covered up and
went unreported. Many criminal acts were committed and the
perpetrators went unpunished.

Based on over a decade of epidemiological research and work with
consumers and health care professionals, Stoddard urgently implored
the FDA to unequivocally deny any form of approval of Neotame. ACSN's
warnings fell on deaf ears when Stoddard and co-founder, James Turner,
Esquire met with top FDA officials in Washington in 1998 to plead
their case. Today, four years later, FDA approval was announced in the
national media.
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Mary Nash Stoddard, Author, "Deadly Deception Story of Aspartame"
[Odenwald Press 1998] Founder, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and
Worldwide Pilots Hotline (Division of ACSN) [1987] P.O. Box 780634 -
Dallas TX 75378-0634 214-352-4268 - email: marystod@a...
http://web2.airmail.net/
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Additional Contacts:

Blondell Anderson Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
(HFS-206) FDA, 200 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20204

Ms. Laura M. Tavantino Office of Premarket Approval Center for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206) FDA, 200 C Street, SW,
Washington, DC 20204